User:Geo Swan/Karachi Six

The Karachi Six were six men captured on September 11, 2002, in Karachi, Pakistan, by a mixed force of CIA and Pakistani security officials. Initially US intelligence officials claimed that the men were al Qaeda members, plotting a future attack.

According to Courthouse News Service:
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 * Though the United States initially suspected that the six were involved with an al-Qaida cell plotting a future attack, the case has failed to get off the ground for 14 years for lack of evidence. As documented in the detainee's unclassified profile, U.S. has tempered its claims about the Karachi 6 in recent years, describing them now as low-level al-Qaida fighters.
 * Though the United States initially suspected that the six were involved with an al-Qaida cell plotting a future attack, the case has failed to get off the ground for 14 years for lack of evidence. As documented in the detainee's unclassified profile, U.S. has tempered its claims about the Karachi 6 in recent years, describing them now as low-level al-Qaida fighters.


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The Guantanamo Joint Review Task Force implemented by President Barack Obama, when he took office, recommended indefinite extrajudicial detention for all six men, regarding them as too dangerous to release, even though there was no evidence that would justify charging them with a crime.

In 2015 and 2016 the Obama Presidency had a Periodic Review Board make new recommendations on their status.

On August 15, 2016, two of the men were transferred to the United Arab Emirates.