Abdullah al-Kidd
Respondent
Lee Gelernt, Counsel of Record On March 16, 2003, Abdullah al-Kidd was arrested shortly before he boarded a flight from Dulles Airport in Virginia to Saudi Arabia in order to study at a university there. Al-Kidd, a native-born U.S. citizen who converted to Islam while in college, was detained as a material witness in the investigation of Sami Omar al-Hussayen, a Saudi citizen who had been indicted the previous month on multiple counts of making false statements to investigators and visa fraud. Al-Kidd was held in high-security prisons for 15 days, where he alleged he was subject to repeated interrogation,…
