A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who died in an apparent suicide was a Saudi military veteran and self-described Islamic holy warrior who denied he intended to kill Americans.
US military records show the detainee admitted having a connection to al-Qaeda, but he insisted he was little more than a Taliban foot soldier when the US invaded Afghanistan following the September 11th attacks.
Saudi Arabia said he was Abdul Rahman Maadha al-Amry.
Although it gave no details about him, US records show he was 34 and had been held without charges at the prison at America's Guantanamo Bay naval base in south-east Cuba since February 2002.
He had no lawyer, although the New York-based Centre for Constitutional Rights has filed a blanket legal challenge on behalf of everyone held at Guantanamo.
The US military said al-Amry was not breathing when he was found on Wednesday by guards in a high-security section of Guantanamo generally reserved for detainees considered to have intelligence value or who do not follow prison rules.
Al-Amry was said by another detainee to have been on a hunger strike in March. Military records indicate his weight dropped below six-and-a-half stone at one point in 2005.
His death would be the fourth suicide at the detention centre, where the US holds about 380 men on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda or the Taliban.