Abdul Zahir was arrested in July 2002. He is currently detained at the U.S. military base at Guantánamo/ Cuba.
On 20 January 2006, he became the 10th detainee to be charged by the Pentagon for offenses triable by the military commission set up to try certain detainees at Guantánamo.
The charges against Zahir are conspiracy, aiding the enemy and attacking civilians.
No trial date has been set.
Zahir has had a habeas corpus petition before the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., since August - in which he denies membership in either the Taliban or al Qaeda and says he has never been an ''enemy alien, a lawful or unlawful belligerent, or a combatant of any kind'' by any U.S. civilian or military definition.
