A review board determined in June 2021 that al-Qahtani did not present a current threat to national security, and recommended repatriation to Saudi Arabia
The Defense Department announced Monday that Mohammad Mani Ahmad al-Qahtani, who has been accused of being the"20th hijacker" in the September 11, 2001 terrorism plot, has been sent home to Saudi Arabia from the military prison at. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin notified Saudi Arabia in February of the decision.
In a statement from February, the Center for Constitutional Rights said that an independent psychiatric expert examined al-Qahtani at Guantanamo and confirmed the diagnosis of schizophrenia in 2016, and the military's own doctors unanimously agreed with that conclusion. The declassified documents said the lead hijacker, Mohammed Atta, was"almost certainly" waiting to pick up al-Qahtani at the Orlando airport in 2001 when he was denied entry and deported to the United Arab Emirates.
The documents alleged he"repeatedly" tried to"disassociate himself" from al Qaeda, although the government said that they believed his"repeated denials of terrorism involvement" limited their"insight into his motivation." His family has no known links to terrorism, the government said.
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