“ Commitment The detainee visited a senior al Qaida lieutenant's guest house in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1994 en route to Bosnia to fight in the jihad. The detainee had ties to the Chechen movement in 1999 and had a connection to one of Usama bin Laden's lieutenants. The detainee planned to travel and join the jihadist elements in Afghanistan in late September 2001, in anticipation of the United States coalition invasion and encouraged his friends to do the same. ”

“ The detainee applied for an Iranian visa in Bosnia for travel to Afghanistan on 1 October 2001. The detainee, without any viable means of financial support, was able to support himself and several other former Bosnian Mujahedin families in Bosnia. Some of the financial support was provided by the Director of the Saudi High Commission for Relief. The detainee was identified as the primary al Qaida facilitator in Bosnia in September 2001. The detainee was used as a contact to procure passports from 1997 to 2000. ”

“ Connections/Associations The Armed Islamic Group/GIA is described as an Islamic extremist group that aims to overthrow the secular Algerian regime and replace it with an Islamic state . The Armed Islamic Group has frequent attacks against civilians and government workers. Since 1993, the Armed Islamic Group has killed more than 100 men and women in the country. ”