Abd Al Malik Abd Al Wahab (Paperback)

Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab is a Yemeni citizen held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, as of 2006.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 037.He was born somewhere between 1983 and 1984. Abd al Wahab was arrested in the winter of 2001/2002, apparently by Pakistani officials, and is accused of being a member of Al-Qaeda.According to him he was working as a Qu'ran teacher in Afghanistan shortly before the U.S. invasion.He claims that he had no relations of note with the Taliban; though he was given housing by the Taliban government as a visiting Muslim scholar. When the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan began in 2001, he decided to leave the country and return home to Yemen. He sent his wife and young daughter home and planned to follow them home but was unable to do so because he was arrested by Pakistani forces while trying to collect his belongings. He was then sold by Pakistani forces to U.S. troops and sent to Guantanamo Bay.