Bin Attash, Walid fr

Country of proceedings: United-States
Context of crimes: War on terrror
Date: 2003 – present
Keywords: Terrorism, Law of armed conflicts (combatant/non-combatant, detention)

Walid bin Attash, also known as Khallad, was a top operative of Al-Qaeda. He was arrested in Pakistan in 2003. Before a Combatants Status Review Tribunal on 12 March 2007, Walid bin Attash acknowledged his role in the bombing of the two American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and in the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.

On 11 February 2008, the Pentagon made public the indictement against the "September 11 Co-conspirators", involving, among others, Walid bin Attash.

Court documents

08-02-2007 – CSRT: Summary of evidence
12-03-2007 – CSRT: Transcript

Other cases before the Military Commissions

• September 11 Co-conspirators
• Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud Al-Qosi*
• Salim Ahmed Hamdan
• David M. Hicks
• Omar Ahmed Khadr
• Mohammed Jawad*
• Almed Mohammed Ahmed Haza Al-Darbi*
• Mohammed Kamin*
• Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani*
• Noor Uthman Mohammed*
• Jabran Said Bin Al-Qahtani*
• Ghassan Abdullah Al-Sharbi*
• Sufyian Barhoumi*
• Mohammed Hashim*
• Binyam Mohamed*
• Abdal-Rahim Hussein Muhammed Abdu Al-Nashiri*