Wali Khan Amin Shah

Wali Khan Amin Shah (Arabic: والي خان أمين شاه‎) (also known as Osama Turkestani, Osama Azmurai,[2] and Grabi Ibrahim Hahsen ) is a Saudi a man who fought with the Afghan Arabs in Afghanistan, and called for the jihad movement to focus on attacking the United States. He had a role in the foiled Bojinka plot. He was convicted of terrorism, and has been imprisoned on these charges since 1995.

Wali Khan Amin Shah
Born1967 (age 53–54)
Detained atFCI Pekin[1]
Alternate nameOsama Turkestani
Osama Azmurai
Grabi Ibrahim Hahse

Background

Shah was born in Turkestan (now Uzbekistan), having fled with his family to escape the Soviet invasion and settled in Saudi Arabia where he was a stateless person. Shah says he was sent by the Saudi government to fight in Afghanistan and Pakistan.[3]

Attack on Philippines

Shah bombed the Greenbelt Theatre in Manila on December 1, injuring several people. In January 1995, Shah traveled from Pakistan to Manila via Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to rendezvous with Ramzi Yousef.[4]

Capture and Re-Capture
Florence ADMAX USP, where Shah was incarcerated

The Bojinka plot was discovered by police on January 6, 1995. He was arrested by Manila police at an apartment on Singalong Street, which Yousef had set up in case the plot failed,[5] on January 11, but he escaped police custody roughly 77 hours later. After obtaining a fraudulent passport bearing the name Osama Turkestani, he lived on the nearby island of Langkawi until his December 1995 re-arrest in Malaysia. After the re-arrest, he was handed over to United States authorities.

Shah was reported to have made an unsuccessful escape attempt from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.[6]

Shah was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison having spent his first 14 years in solitary confinement under very severe conditions due to Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) in ADX Florence, and was later transferred to the Communication Management Unit (CMU) a little less severe in Marion, IL.[3]

Shah has been cooperating with the United States Government since August 1998. Shah, Federal Bureau of Prisons # 42799-054, previously incarcerated at Marion USP, is now at FCI Terre Haute. His release date is June 9, 2021.[1] Since he is a stateless person, Shah can remain detained indefinitely after his release.[3]

See also

References
  1. "Find an inmate". Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  2. Ressa, Maria (2003). Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia. Free Press. pp. x, xiv, xv, 19–20, 21, 25, 27, 29, 32, 43–44, 108, 172–3. ISBN 9780743251334.
  3. "Civil Freedoms – Portraits of Injustice – Wali Khan Amin Shah". Retrieved 2020-12-03.
  4. McKinley, James C. Jr. (13 December 1995). "F.B.I. Arrests Man in Far East, Charged in Plot to Bomb Planes". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  5. Katz, Samuel M. (2002). Relentless Pursuit: The DSS and the Manhunt for the Al-Qaeda Terrorists. Macmillan. ISBN 9780765304025.
  6. "Corrections". The New York Times. 11 June 1996. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
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