Guantánamo Detainee Agrees to Drop Call for C.I.A. Testimony Under a deal with the military court, Majid Khan, who has admitted being a courier for Al Qaeda, will give up his chance to call witnesses to his torture in return for being released as soon as next year. Majid Khan, a citizen of Pakistan who went to high school in Maryland, was captured in Pakistan in 2003 and has pleaded guilty to acting as a courier for Al Qaeda.Credit...Center for Constitutional Rights May 14, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET WASHINGTON â A detainee at Guantánamo Bay has agreed to a deal intended to lead to his release in the next few years in return for giving up the right to question the C.I.A. in court about its torture program, United States government officials said.