Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh
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Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh is a citizen of Yemen currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 836. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on April 29, 1978, in Usabee, Yemen.
Ayoub Ali Saleh was apprehended by a combined force of Pakistani security officials and a CIA black site team, on 11 September 2002—the anniversary of al Qaeda's attack within the USA. He and five other individuals spent slightly more than a month in CIA custody at the salt pit, prior to being transferred to Guantanamo. Guantanamo analysts maintained the narrative that these six were an al Qaeda sleeper cell they called the "Karachi Six". However, that claim had quietly been dropped by his 2016 Periodic Review Board hearing.
As of early June 2010, Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh has been confined at the Guantanamo camps for seven years eight months without charge or trial.