He has split his time between Pakistan and the United States for thirty years. From Knight Ridder, with thanks to Ali Dashti:
WASHINGTON – A wealthy Pakistani businessman who’s being held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison camp for suspected terrorist ties urged al-Qaida operatives to acquire nuclear weapons for use against U.S. troops and said he knew where to get them, according to American investigators.
The allegation, contained in documents filed recently in U.S. District Court in Washington, also identifies Saifullah Paracha, 57, who has an import business in New York, as a participant in a plot to smuggle explosives into the United States and to help al-Qaida hide “large amounts of money.”
There are few details about the smuggling plot and little additional information about what the businessman, a permanent U.S. resident who’s been held 19 months without charges, may have known about how to obtain nuclear weapons.
Paracha, during a review tribunal of his case in November at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, vigorously denied any ties to al-Qaida and scoffed at the nuclear allegation.
“Is a nuclear weapon something I could buy off the shelf? Can you buy it from Tony Blair?” he told a panel of military officers, referring to the British prime minister.