Mustafa al-Hawsawi ( , '' Muṣṭafā al-Ḥawsāwī '' ; born August 5 , 1968 ) is a Saudi Arabian citizen of African descent . He is alleged to have acted as one of many financial facilitators of the September 11 attacks in the United States . However , the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture which was publicly released on December 9 , 2014 , disclosed an internal CIA cable between the chief of interrogations and the CIA Headquarters wherein he expressed reservations regarding al-Hawsawi 's alleged role and involvement in the plot . The report reveals " following al-Hawsawi 's first interrogation session , Chief of Interrogations asked CIA Headquarters for information on what al-Hawsawi actually " knows , " saying : " he does not appear to the sic be a person that is a financial mastermind . " Mustafa al-Hawsawi was captured in Pakistan by Pakistani agents in March 2003 and was transferred to the custody of the United States . He was held in secret CIA black sites until September 2006 , when he was transferred to Guantánamo Bay and U.S. officials finally acknowledged his imprisonment . It detained him at the Salt Pit , a secret black site in Afghanistan . It was reported in August 2010 that , after months of interrogation , the CIA transferred al-Hawsawi and three other high-value detainees to Guantanamo Bay detention camp on September 24 , 2003 , for indefinite detention . Fearing that '' Rasul v. Bush '' , a pending Supreme Court case about detainees ' habeas corpus rights , might result in having to provide the men with access to counsel , the CIA took back custody on March 27 , 2004 , and transported the four men to one of their black sites
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Mustafa al-Hawsawi