Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1975, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He was repatriated from Guantanamo, on July 19, 2006.[3][4] He was repatriated with two other Saudis.[5] [6][7] Human Rights Watch reported that he was first held, without charge, in Riyadh's al-Ha'ir prison. He later went through the Saudi jihadist rehabilitation program, and, according to a profile in the Christian Science Monitor, his rehabilitation was a success.[2] He admits that graphic propaganda videos that depicted Bosnian Muslim civilian casualties that he saw when he was a student were what triggered his commitment to militant jihadism.