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Ex-Gitmo detainee who fought in Kashmir arrested in Yemen

Lalit K Jha Washington, Sept 8 (PTI) A former Guantanamo detainee who had earlier fought in Kashmir and then in Afghanistan has been arrested in Yemen as he had recently joined the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a media report has said.The Fox News in an exclusive news reported that the individual arrested in Yemen has been identified as Jabir Jurban Al Fayafi.According to Defence Department documents, he was detainee number 188 at the Navy detention camps, it said.Fayfi was transferred from the Guantanamo Bay facility to Saudi Arabia in late 2006 after what one official described as a lengthy review; the news channel reported."At the time, Fayfi was considered 'low risk' and part of a series of test cases to assess whether the rehabilitation program in Saudi Arabia worked," it said.According to an unclassified US government, Al Fayafi fought in Kashmir for about four months, after which he moved to Afghanistan.It is likely that al Fayfi's time in Kashmir was sponsored by Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM), a known al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group based in Pakistan, the Long War Journal reported.According to one memo produced at Gitmo, al Fayfi "spent time in a [JEM] building in Karachi, Pakistan." That same memo notes that the JEM has "close ties to Afghan Arabs and the Taliban" and that Osama bin Laden "is suspected of giving funding to the JEM," it said."JEM is one of the two primary jihadist organizations operating in Kashmir and was created by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Agency to fight Indian forces," the journal said.During his trial, Al Fayfi admitted that he had received light arms training in Kashmir and, according to memos produced at Guantanamo, that he had "joined a unit of approximately nine others and participated in three raids." Al Fayfi "fought in Kashmir for about four months," said the Long War Journal.