Majid Khan

Majid Khan is an Al Qaeda member who worked with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and participated in several high-profile operations. In 2003, he transported $50,000 from Pakistan to an Al Qaeda affiliate which was eventually used in the deadly 2003 bombing of a Marriott hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia. He also allegedly wore a suicide vest in a failed attempt to assassinate then-Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in 2002. Khan is a Pakistani-American who radicalized after the death of his mother in 2001, when he returned to Pakistan to join Al Qaeda. He was arrested when he returned to the U.S. in 2002 and has been held in Guantanamo Bay and various overseas black sites. He also has reportedly been tortured, including being waterboarded repeatedly and force-fed. It was reported in October 2021 that because Khan has become a cooperator with the U.S. government, his prison sentence could end as early as February 2022 and as late as February 2025.

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