Mr Qumu, 51, is today to oust an important figure in the Libyan rebels battle, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, reportedly one of the leaders of a ragtag band of fighters known as the Darnah Brigade for his birthplace, this shoddy port city of 100,000 people in the northeastern Libya. The former foe and prisoner of the United States is now an ally of the kind, a remarkable turnabout as a result of the shift of American policy, rather than any obvious change of Mr Qumu.
He was a tank driver in the 1980s Soviet troops take years, while the Central Intelligence Agency was religious militant billion expenditure in the Libyan army trying to support of Afghanistan. Mr Qumu moved to Afghanistan in the early 1990's, as well as Osama bin Laden and other former mujahideen were forcibly against their former benefactor, the United States apply.
He was in Pakistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the membership of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Colonel Qadhafi accused that taken prisoner and after Guantanamo sent - partly on the basis of the information Government.
"The Libyan Government prisoner a ' dangerous man with no qualms about committing terrorist acts," "says that designated 2005 review, obviously, results obtained by the New York Times quote Libyan intelligence."?"He was known as one of the commanders of the Afghan Arabs, extremist'"the Libyan information on, to Arab fighters who remained in Afghanistan after the anti-Soviet Jihad."
If this evaluation of Guantanamo was written, was the United States service on terrorism works closely with Colonel Qadhafi intelligence. The United States now, is supplier of the international coalition a leading, try - to force Colonel Qadhafi and is with air makes the rebels, including Mr Qumu secure.
The classified Guantanamo review of Mr Qumu claims that he suffered under "non-specific personality disorder" and tells - again relying on the Libyan Government as a source - a history of drug addiction and drug trafficking, and charges of murder and armed assault.
1993 The document claims, Mr Qumu escape from a Libyan prison, fled to Egypt and went on to Afghanistan, to training in a camp run by Mr bin Laden. Mr Qumu denied in Guantanamo know terrorist activities. He said he feared prosecution for Libya, where he confronted and asked to go where "you (the United States) me, according to a hearing summary can look at" returned to another country.
However, 2007, he is released from Guantanamo after Libya and in the next year in an amnesty for militants.
Colonel Qadhafi has allegations about Mr. Qumu past in statements Al Qaeda blamed for the entire Libyan uprising quoted. Series found in the rebels nervously the presence of at least a few former members American officials.
The walls of buildings along the street in Darnah are with the usual anti-Gaddafi and pro-Western slogans, in English and Arabic, all found eastern Libya decorated. But there are extensions: "No. Qaeda" and "no to extremism."
Darnah has reason to be sensitive. The city has a long history of Islamic militancy, including a revolt against Colonel Qadhafi rule led by Islamists in the mid-1990s, which led a vicious crackdown. Activists from here are credited with beginning the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which later announced, that it was with Al-Qaeda branch company, and fight the militant as Mr. Qumu in Afghanistan.
Darnah has although, notably, a claim to the world's most productive recruiting ground for suicide bombers. An analysis of the 600 suicide bombers in Iraq by combating terrorism Center at West point that that the 440, that their residence in a recruiting roster 52 of Darna, the best of each city, with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia waren40 time send as 1930–32 lists, as the next largest source of 51.
In addition to Mr Qumu, say local residents the Darnah Brigade of Abdul Hakim al-Hasadi, another Libyan thought to be in Afghanistan during the reign of the Taliban, a militant, was when Al Qaeda had training camps, is run.
Mr Qumu last week to enable Mr Hasadi, but has not for a promised interview, in crumpled fatigues with light beard and a lazy left eye, constantly half closed. He denied that Mr Qumu was in his group, recently the martyrs of Abu Salim Brigade, according to a prison in Tripoli, where 1,200 inmates were slaughtered in 1996 renamed. Mr Qumu sons said in his Brigade, he.
Mr Hasadi said "I white not convince such as everyone, that we here are not Al Qaeda,". "Our goal is to overthrow Qadhafi," he added. "I know that you never believe you me, but it's true."
At the moment seem Western observers in Benghazi, the temporary rebel capital 180 miles from here, content, to accept the assurances. "We are more concerned about Al Qaeda infiltration of outside as the indigenous,", said one. "Most of them have a local agenda so that they present not as much as a threat to the West."
Rod reported Nordland from Darnah, and Scott Shane from Washington. Kareem Fahim contributed reporting from Benghazi, Libya.
This article was revised and according to the following correction:
Correction: April 25, 2011
An earlier version of the image caption with this article identified Abdul Hakim al-Hasadi incorrectly as Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda am Qumu.
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