Saudi suspected of wanting to aid 9/11 hijackers seeks to leave Guantanamo

June 15, 2016
Washington Post

Long before Mohammed al-Qahtani was suspected of planning to participate in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as the 20th hijacker, Saudi police found him naked in a garbage dumpster in Riyadh.

In another psychotic episode that took place in Mecca in 2000, Qahtani was involuntarily committed to a hospital after trying to hurl himself into the street. Doctors at the time said he was delusional and suicidal, according to medical and psychiatric records that were obtained by The Washington Post. ...

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