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Ramzi bin al-Sibh is a Yemeni citizen being held by the United States as an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_combatant enemy combatant] detainee at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp Guantanamo Bay] in Cuba. He is accused of being a "key facilitator for the [[9/11|September 11 attacks]]" in 2001 in the United States.

n the mid-1990s, bin al-Shibh moved as a student to Hamburg, Germany, where he allegedly became close friends with [[Mohammed Atta|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 US 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 US as the "20th hijacker", of whom there have been several more likely candidates.

n the mid-1990s, bin al-Shibh moved as a student to Hamburg, Germany, where he allegedly became close friends with [[Mohammed Atta|Mohamed Atta]], [[Ziad Jarrah]] and[[ Marwan Al-Shehhi| 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 US 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 US as the "20th hijacker", of whom there have been several more likely candidates.

Bin al-Shibh has been in United States custody since he was captured on September 11, 2002, in Karachi, Pakistan.[4] He was held by the CIA in black sites 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.

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 Ramzi bin al-Sibh is a Yemeni citizen being held by the United States as an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_combatant enemy combatant] detainee at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp Guantanamo Bay] in Cuba. He is accused of being a "key facilitator for the [[9/11|September 11 attacks]]" in 2001 in the United States.
-n the mid-1990s, bin al-Shibh moved as a student to Hamburg, Germany, where he allegedly became close friends with [[Mohammed Atta|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 US 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 US as the "20th hijacker", of whom there have been several more likely candidates.
+n the mid-1990s, bin al-Shibh moved as a student to Hamburg, Germany, where he allegedly became close friends with [[Mohammed Atta|Mohamed Atta]], [[Ziad Jarrah]] and[[ Marwan Al-Shehhi| 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 US 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 US as the "20th hijacker", of whom there have been several more likely candidates.
 Bin al-Shibh has been in United States custody since he was captured on September 11, 2002, in Karachi, Pakistan.[4] He was held by the CIA in black sites 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.