| Importance | Medium |
 | Location of Detention | U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba1 |
 | Date of Capture | 20041 |
| Affiliation | Al-Ittihad al-Islami1 |
| Role | Senior Operative1 |
 | Supervisor | Abu Talha al Sudani1 |
| Affiliation | Al-Qaeda |
| Nationality | Somali1 |
| Alias(es) | Guleed Hassan Ahmad1, Hanad1 |
| Date of Birth | 19741 |
| Place of Birth | Mogadishu, Somalia1 |
| Gender | Male |
| History | Attended training camp in postwar Afghanistan (1990-2001) |
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| Reliable | AIAI operative who also worked for al-Qaeda.
Grew up in Germany and Sweden, a refugee from the Somali civil war. An imam in Sweden sponsored his trip for weapons training in Afghanistan in 1996; he returned to Somalia that year. He joined AIAI in 1997 to oppose Ethiopia.
He met Abu Talha in early 2003, and on his orders cased Camp Lemonier, the U.S. military base in Djibouti in Fall 2003.
He was one of 14 key al-Qaeda operatives and associates transferred from CIA custody to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2006.1 |
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| 1 "Detainee Biographies," press release, Director of National Intelligence, Sept. 6, 2006. |
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