BALTIMORE: A Pakistani man who lived in the Baltimore area and graduated from a local high school in 1999 is among the 14 high-value terrorism suspects transferred from secret CIA prisons to the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to await trial, according to profiles of the suspects released by the federal government. Majid Khan (26), who was arrested in 2003, is a Pakistani national who moved to the Baltimore area with his family in 1996, according to the profile released by the office of John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence. Ahmed Khan, who identified himself as KhanÂ’s brother, said a lawyer had advised them not to comment at this time. KhanÂ’s father, Khan Ali, told The Washington Post last week that he believed the charges were false. The father said the family had not known where Khan was since 2003. After graduating from high school in 1999, Khan became involved in a local Islamic organisation and returned to Pakistan in 2002, according to the profile.
The profile said that in Pakistan, Khan was introduced to senior Al Qaeda operational planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Mohammed then allegedly selected Khan as an operative for a possible attack in the US. Khan had worked at his familyÂ’s gas station and was able to help Mohammed with research into a plan to blow up gas stations, the government said. Mohammed also asked Khan to research how to poison US water reservoirs, according to the government profile.