Jaralla al-Marri

Moazzam Begg was arrested in 2014 by the UK on allegations that he was funding and training terrorists in Syria. He has since been released.

In a telephone interview, al-Marri told reporters he was detained at Heathrow Airport on February 23, 2009, on the claim that his visa application had not stated that he was a former Guantanamo captive. Al Marri said he had told the British officials who helped him complete his visa application about his stay in Guantanamo. Al Marri had toured the United Kingdom on a speaking tour, with Moazzam Begg, a few weeks before his 23 February detention.

Jaralla Saleh Mohammed Kahla al-Marri is a citizen of Qatar and a former detainee at the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba, where he was imprisoned for six and a half years. He returned to Qatar on 27 July 2008. He was reportedly born on 12 August 1973, in Doha, Qatar according to the Department of Defense.

On July 28, 2008, al-Marri was reported to have been repatriated to Qatar. His cousin and mother thanked the Emir for his help in securing his repatriation.

Al-Marri participated in the hunger strikes held during the summer of 2005. According to the Center for Constitutional Rights:

According to an article in The Columbia Journalist, from 12 December 2005, al-Marri had only had two visits from his lawyers.

According to his Department of Defense Detainee Assessment, it is believed that he traveled in Mecca in 2001 where he met Abu Walid al-Makki who began to talk to him about Islam and jihad. Al-Makki introduced him to Muhammad al-Saudi al-Harabi who was his contact for joining the jihad in Afghanistan. Because he believed that his family would not support his participation in jihad he told them that he would be traveling to Pakistan to memorize the Koran. Al Marri arrived in Pakistan on September 6, 2001, and contacted al-Harabi who connected him to a man named al-Zubail who transported him to Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was then moved to the al-Faruq training camp. He was ultimately being moved from the camp into Pakistan to return home when he was arrested on December 6, 2001, trying to cross into Pakistan.

Al Marri was detained at the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He was suspected of trying to transfer $10,000 of "al Qaeda operational funds" to his brother, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, under the direction of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks.

On September 10, 2001, al-Marri came to Peoria with his family to become a graduate student at his undergraduate alma mater, Bradley University. Al-Marri was indicted and arrested on credit card fraud and lying to the FBI. He is being detained as a supposed al-Qaeda operative who came to the US to assist in a second wave of terrorist attacks. Al-Marri denies this.

Al Marri studied English in Texas in from 1993-1994. He studied at both Texas A&M and Dexter Hall. He returned to Qatar and married his wife in 1995. He has three children.