User:Geo Swan/Fa‘iz al-Shanbari

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Fa‘iz al-Shanbari is a citizen of Saudi Arabia suspected of the murder of William Jefferson. Jefferson was murdered in 1995. His murder has been called the first terrorist act to take place in newly independent Bosnia. The United Nations requested Interpol issue an international arrest warrant for Fa'iz Al Shanbari in 1998. American counter-terrorism analysts asserted that Guantanamo captive Ahmed Zaid Salem Zuhair was in possession of Jefferson's watch, and that this established he had played a role in his murder.

According to historian Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, Guantanamo authorities were aware that Bosnian authorities believed al-Shanbari was responsible for the murder, but had withheld that evidence from Zuhair's attorneys.