Nabil al-Marabh

A Kuwaiti-Canadian, Nabil al-Marabh was one of the first people to be scrutinized by American authorities following the September 11th attacks. He was one of four men, Mohamad Elzahabi, al-Marabh, Bassam Kanj and Raed Hijazi, who met each other at the Khalden training camp where they met during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Although the four men each went their separate ways following the war, in 1998 they were all working as cab drivers in Boston, Massachusetts, the first three of them all working for the same company.
He was initially charged with terrorism, but these charges were later dropped and he was instead charged with illegally entering the United States from Canada.
In 2004, he was deported to his home country of Syria.
Life
In 1994, al-Marabh was in Kunduz, Afghanistan serving alongside Ibn al-Khattab. Here he met Hassan Almrei.
He moved to the United States and again contacted Almrei, who was now living in Canada, and asked if he could help him acquire a false passport for $2000. Almrei says that since al-Marabh introduced himself as "Abu Adnan", he didn't immediately recognise that it was him. Almrei used his childhood name, "Abu al-Hareth", during the transaction. The two met at the Toronto copy store owned by al-Marabh's uncle, Ahmed Shehab, where a number of prominent forged identity cards were later found - and Almrei sold him the fake passport. Almrei says he was later asked to find a second passport for him, but refused.

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