Riyadh Shikawi

Riyadh Shikawi (Arabic: ) is a Yemeni who is currently held at Guantanamo. His real name is Abdul Rahim al-Sharqawi.
Shikawi was briefly listed by the FBI as a wanted terrorism suspect in early 2002. He was named as a suspect in a Yemen plot, and identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei. But when the FBI discovered that he had been arrested by the CIA and rendered to Jordan, Shikawi's name was removed from the FBI list.
February 12, 2002 terror alert
In early 2002, according to an FBI report, as a result of US military operations in Afghanistan and of on-going interviews of detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, information became available on February 11, 2002, regarding threats to US interests which indicated that a planned attack may have been about to occur in the United States or against US interests in the country of Yemen on or around the next day, February 12, 2002.
In response, on February 11, 2002, the FBI added Riyadh Shikawi and 16 others to its "Seeking Information" list. The early version of that list was then known as the "Most Wanted Terrorists Seeking Information" list.
But on February 14, 2002, several days after the FBI alert, Riyadh Shikawi was one of six names who were removed, and the FBI re-published the list as only eleven names and photos. The FBI had apparently been informed by the CIA that Shikawi (real name Sharqawi) was already in custody.
The other names among the six identified in the Yemen plot on February 11, 2002, but who were removed from the list on February 14, 2002 as already in Yemen custody were: Issam Ahmad Dibwan al-Makhlafi, Ahmad al-Akhader Nasser Albidani, Bashir Ali Nasser al-Sharari, Abdulaziz Muhammad Saleh bin Otash and Shuhour Abdullah Mukbil al-Sabri. Bin Otash -- whose real name was Hassan bin Attash -- had also been rendered by the CIA to Jordan.

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