Bin Laden Associate in US Custody

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From 'AFP':

On March 14th, the Pentagon disclosed the capture of an Afghan national who helped arrange Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's escape from Tora Bora in the mountains of Afghanistan in late 2001. Muhammed Rahim, described as one of Bin Laden's most trusted facilitators and procurement specialists, was turned over to the military by the CIA at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.

CIA Director Michael Hayden said Rahim was detained in mid-2007 and eventually turned over to US custody and placed in the CIA's interrogation program. "Rahim is perhaps best known in counter-terror circles as a personal facilitator and translator for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders," Hayden said in a message to CIA employees. "In 2001, as the terrorist haven in Afghanistan was collapsing, Rahim helped prepare Tora Bora as a hideout. When Al-Qaeda had to flee from there, Rahim was part of that operation, too," he said. Bin Laden was believed to have been trapped in the mountain hideout near the Pakistani border, but eluded capture by slipping through a cordon of US and Afghan forces.