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- Majid Shoukat Khan (born 28 February 1980) is a Pakistani detainee who is the only known legal resident of the United States held in the Guantanamo Bay Detainment Camp. He was detained after returning to his native Pakistan to visit his wife and was captured by Pakistani authorities, who handed him over to the CIA. In 2012, Khan pled guilty to conspiracy and the murder of 11 innocent civilians in the 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia, and for the attempted assassination of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. Iyman Faris told authorities that Khan had referred to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as an "uncle" and spoken of a desire to kill Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. After Khan was taken into custody, sent to a CIA black site in Afghanistan, where he was interrogated and transferred to Guantanamo Bay in September 2006, Faris said that his accusations had been "an absolute lie." He said that he had been coerced into making the statements. Khan had gained asylum in the United States in 1998 and lived in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended high school and worked for his father. Khan made repeated offers to submit to a polygraph test to prove his innocence, but was turned down. The Director of National Intelligence asserted that Khan's experience working in his father's gas station "...made Khan highly qualified to assist Mohammad with the research and planning to blow up gas stations." Khan is represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and is one of few so-called "high value detainees" to have legal representation. He has attempted suicide seven times (one in an attempt to assassinate former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and six times while in detention). He complained in writing of having his beard forcibly shaved (in violation of his religious practice) and spending weeks without sunlight; he also complained that detainees are expected to wash with "cheap branded, unscented soap", and that he is forced to read the "poor quality" Joint Task Force Guantanamo's weekly newsletter The Wire. Khaled el-Masri, a citizen of Germany held for five months in the CIA black site in Afghanistan known as the "Salt Pit" in 2003 and 2004, a victim of mistaken identity, reported that Majid Khan was one of his fellow captives there. (en)
- Majid Khan (né en février 1980) est un Pakistanais détenu et torturé par la CIA dans la base de Guantánamo en tant que « combattant ennemi » ( (en)). Parmi tous les détenus extra-judiciaires de Guantánamo, il est le seul qui était titulaire d'un titre de séjour aux États-Unis. En novembre 2021, il est condamné à 26 ans de prison. Il pourrait être libéré en 2022. Khan fait les gros titres de la presse en février 2012 après avoir accepté de plaider coupable devant les commissions militaires instaurées par l'administration George W. Bush pour juger en dehors du système judiciaire fédéral les détenus extra-judiciaires. Alors âgé de 23 ans, Khan est capturé fin 2003 au Pakistan, par les autorités pakistanaises, à la suite d'un voyage au pays. Il est remis aux autorités américaines, qui le transférèrent à Guantánamo après une détention dans les centres secrets de la CIA (black sites). Soumis à la torture (comme cela est confirmé par une enquête du Sénat), il est pris en charge par le (en), qui dépose une motion d'habeas corpus en son nom. Celle-ci est refusée. Les autorités américaines accusent Khan d'avoir été sensibilisé à l'islamisme à Baltimore, via des cercles intérieurs à l'Islamic Society of Baltimore. Lors de son séjour au Pakistan, il serait entré en contact avec des membres de sa famille eux-mêmes liés, selon Washington, à Al-Qaïda. Selon ses déclarations faites dans le cadre de procédure de plaider-coupable, il aurait alors rencontré à plusieurs reprises, dans la rue, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, l'auto-proclamé « cerveau » des attentats du 11 septembre 2001, et discuté avec lui de certains projets illégaux. (fr)
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- Majid Shoukat Khan (born 28 February 1980) is a Pakistani detainee who is the only known legal resident of the United States held in the Guantanamo Bay Detainment Camp. He was detained after returning to his native Pakistan to visit his wife and was captured by Pakistani authorities, who handed him over to the CIA. In 2012, Khan pled guilty to conspiracy and the murder of 11 innocent civilians in the 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia, and for the attempted assassination of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. (en)
- Majid Khan (né en février 1980) est un Pakistanais détenu et torturé par la CIA dans la base de Guantánamo en tant que « combattant ennemi » ( (en)). Parmi tous les détenus extra-judiciaires de Guantánamo, il est le seul qui était titulaire d'un titre de séjour aux États-Unis. En novembre 2021, il est condamné à 26 ans de prison. Il pourrait être libéré en 2022. (fr)
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