Ammar al-Baluchi is a Kuwaiti-born Pakistani citizen who has been in American custody at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp since 2006. S.
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Baluchi's detainee assessment memorandum by the U.S. Department of Defense, 8 December 2006
Pakistani cognitive neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who was married to al-Baluchi from February 2003 to April/May 2003. She is currently incarcerated at FMC Carswell in the United States.
Mug shot of Ammar al-Baluchi taken shortly after he was transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in September 2006. The photo was obtained by reporters of McClatchyDC.About this person
Ammar al-Baluchi is a Kuwaiti-born Pakistani citizen who has been in American custody at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp since 2006. He was arrested in the Pakistani former capital city of Karachi in 2003 before being transferred; the series of criminal charges against him include: "facilitating the 9/11 attackers, acting as a courier for Osama bin Laden and plotting to crash a plane packed with explosives into the U.S. consulate in Karachi." He is a nephew of the Pakistani terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who served as a senior official of al-Qaeda between the late 1980s and early 2000s; and a cousin of the Pakistani terrorist Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who played a key role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Philippine Airlines Flight 434 bombing, and the high-profile Bojinka plot.
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