Editing Ramzi bin al-Shibh (section)

{{Short description|Yemenite terrorist}}
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| name               = Ramzi bin al-Shibh
| image              = Ramzi Binalshibh (cropped).jpg
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| caption            = FBI photo of bin al-Shibh
| native_name        = {{Lang|ar|رمزي بن الشيبة}}
| native_name_lang   = ar
| birth_name         = Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah bin al-Shibh
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1972|05|01}}<ref>{{Cite web| title=Combatant Status Review Tribunal Input and Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for Guantanamo Detainee, ISN: US9YM-010013DP (S) | url=https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/82930-isn-10013-ramzi-bin-al-shibh-jtf-gtmo-detainee/f16f6d8677fedb00/full.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120144717/https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/82930-isn-10013-ramzi-bin-al-shibh-jtf-gtmo-detainee/f16f6d8677fedb00/full.pdf | archive-date=2022-01-20}}</ref>
| birth_place        = [[Ghayl Bawazir]], [[Yemen]]
| nationality        = [[Yemenis|Yemeni]]
| other_names        = Abu Ubaidah
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| citizenship        = <!-- use only when necessary per [[WP:INFONAT]] -->
| criminal_charges   = Charged before a military commission in 2008; trial started in October 2012
| criminal_status    = At the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|NSGB]] since 2002
| module             = 
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| allegiance   = {{Flag|Al-Qaeda}}
| serviceyears = 1990s–2002
| rank         = Communication officer
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*[[War in Afghanistan (1978–present)|Afghan Civil War]]
**[[War in North-West Pakistan]]
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'''Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah bin al-Shibh''' ({{langx|ar|رمزي محمد عبد الله بن الشيبة|Ramzī Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh bin al-Shībh}}; born May 1, 1972) is a [[Yemenis|Yemeni]]  [[Terrorism|terrorist]] who served as [[al-Qaeda]]'s communications officer. He has been detained by the [[United States]] in the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]] (NSGB) since 2002. He is accused of being a "key facilitator" for the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001.<ref name="odni14">{{cite web| url=http://www.odni.gov/announcements/content/DetaineeBiographies.pdf| title=Detainee Biographies| publisher=[[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]]| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901110613/http://www.odni.gov/announcements/content/DetaineeBiographies.pdf| archive-date=September 1, 2009| url-status=dead
| access-date=March 4, 2017}}</ref>

In the mid-1990s, bin al-Shibh moved as a student to [[Hamburg]], [[Germany]], where he allegedly became close friends with [[Mohamed Atta]], [[Ziad Jarrah]] and [[Marwan al-Shehhi]]. Together, they are suspected of forming the [[Hamburg cell]] and becoming central perpetrators of the September 11 attacks. He was the only one of the four who failed to obtain a [[U.S. visa]]; he is accused of acting as an intermediary for the hijackers in the United States, by wiring money and passing on information from key [[al-Qaeda]] figures. After the attacks, bin al-Shibh was the first to be publicly identified by the U.S. as the "[[20th hijacker]]", for whom there have been several more possible candidates.

Bin al-Shibh has been in United States custody since he was captured on September 11, 2002, in [[Karachi, Pakistan]].<ref>. He was captured after a gun battle in Karachi with the Pakistani ISI and the CIA's Special Activities Division a year after the attacks.</ref> He was held by the CIA in [[black site]]s in [[Morocco]] before being transferred to [[Guantanamo Bay]] in September 2006. Finally charged in 2008 before a military commission, he and several others suspected in the 9/11 attacks went to trial beginning in May 2012. In August 2023 a U.S. military judge ruled him too psychologically damaged to defend himself after CIA torture.<ref name="Board">{{cite web| first=Carol| last=Rosenberg |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/us/politics/september-11-guantanamo-shibh.html|title=Man Accused in 9/11 Plot Is Not Fit to Face Trial, Board Says |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 25, 2023|access-date=August 25, 2023}}</ref>