Noor al-Deen is a citizen of Syria wounded when he was captured by counter-terrorism officials at a raid on a "Faisalabad safe house" when Abu Zubaydah was captured.[1] According to the Washington Post Noor al-Deen, like Abu Zubaydah, was sent to Morocco by the CIA, so he too could be subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques"
According to the Washington Post Noor al-Deen admired Abu Zubaydah, was guileless and unguarded to his interrogators and was the source of much of information analysts initially believed about him.John Kiriakou, a CIA officer who participated in the raid said:
He was frightened - mostly over what we were going to do with him. He had come to the conclusion that his life was over. |
Historian Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, confirmed that Noor al-Deen had not been sent to Guantanamo.[2] According to Worthington, Noor Al-Deen was the teenager whom Canadian Abdullah Almalki described as being held extrajudicial detention in Syria's Palestinian Branch military prison.[3]
Tunisian captive Salah Bin Al Hadi Asasi faced the allegation that he was "recruited to fight the jihad" by "Noor Deen" at a mosque in Turin, Italy, in February 2001.[4]