Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani
Biography
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was held in US custody in connection with CIA/Guantanamo/mainland criminal custody. Individually documented detention or imprisonment establishes custody beyond 24 hours. CIA, Guantanamo and mainland federal custody were successive US stages. Transfer to the mainland did not itself end US custody.
CCR’s 2010 report distinguishes capture in 2004, secret CIA detention, transfer to Guantanamo in September 2006 and transfer to New York for trial in June 2009. It reports that the court denied a speedy-trial dismissal motion in July 2010. The transfers did not end physical custody and do not create additional imprisonment episodes. Center for Constitutional Rights Annual Report2010, original PDF page 31. Source: https://ccrjustice.org/files/CCR_Annual_Report_2010.pdf#page=31
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was held in US custody in connection with CIA/Guantanamo/mainland criminal custody. Individually documented detention or imprisonment establishes custody beyond 24 hours. CIA, Guantanamo and mainland federal custody were successive US stages. Transfer to the mainland did not itself end US custody.
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On October 28, 2026, the official Bureau of Prisons locator listed McCreary USP as the current physical institution. Its future release projection is not an actual release date.
CIA/Guantanamo/mainland criminal custody. Sentencing hearing: January 25, 2011. The initial physical admission or complete custody continuity remains unresolved, so an exact total is not calculated.
The individual assessment also identifies Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani by the alias Haytham al-Kini.
Existing Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was captured in Pakistan in July2004 and subsequently entered actual CIA custody in2004. The original Senate history dates that CIA handover to September2004; an older Amnesty account saysAugust2004, so the structured first global US date remains at year precision. After approximately two years of CIA confinement he entered US military custody at Guantanamo in2006, under historical ISN10012, and moved to US civilian custody inJune2009. These were later US custody stages, not releases. His current stored prisoner register is BOP02476-748 and must be preserved. A federal jury convicted him of one conspiracy count and acquitted him on281 others; the court actually sentenced him to life on25January2011. No executed final US exit or death was established.
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On October 24, 2013, the Second Circuit affirmed his conviction and life sentence, rejecting his speedy-trial and jury-instruction challenges. Original source.
The review list dated January 22, 2010 identifies Ahmed Ghailani, Guantanamo ISN 10012, as referred for prosecution. That administrative referral is distinct from a conviction or release, and the historical Guantanamo identifier is separate from his federal prison register number. Guantanamo Review Dispositions, physical page 6.