Ibrahim Bin Shakaran was a citizen of
Morocco who was held in
extrajudicial detention
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in the
United States's
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
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s, in
Cuba.
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History
On March 3, 2006, in compliance with a court order from D ...
was 587.
Ibrahim Bin Shakaran was repatriated to Moroccan custody on July 31, 2004, on the eve of the first
Combatant Status Review Tribunals.[
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The three other men were Mohammed Ibrahim Awzar, Mohammed Mizouz, and Radwan al Shakouri.
The four were all charged by Moroccan authorities; then released on bail.
The '' BBC'' reports a fifth man, Abdellah Tabarak was repatriated with the four others.[
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He was reported to have led an anti-Assad group, in Syria, named Sham al Islam, which was staffed mainly by fellow Moroccans.[ He was reported to have died, fighting in Syria, in 2014.
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Association with Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
The Summary of Evidence memo prepared for Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi Al-Utaybi
(1976 – June 10, 2006) was a citizen of Saudi Arabia, who was arrested in 2001 in Pakistan and held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba from early ...
's
first annual Administrative Review Board,
on July 18, 2005, stated:[
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Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment
On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts.[
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His 2-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on December 13, 2003.
Moroccan arrest
According to '' Fox News''
"Brahim Benchekroun" and Mohammed Mazouz
Mohamed Mazouz is a citizen of Morocco who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 294.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analys ...
, and fifteen other Moroccans who were not former Guantanamo captives, were rounded up on November 11, 2005.[
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Defense Intelligence Agency claims he "returned to terrorism"
The Defense Intelligence Agency asserted Ibrahim Bin Shakaran had "returned to terrorism".[
The DIA reported:
* that in September 2007 he was convicted in a Moroccan court for recruiting fighters for ]Al Qaida in Iraq
Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI; ar, القاعدة في العراق, al-Qā'idah fī al-ʿIrāq) or Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia ( ar, القاعدة في بلاد الرافدين, al-Qā'idah fī Bilād ar-Rāfidayn), officially known as ''Tanzim Qaidat a ...
in 2005;
* that he was working to create an al Qaida in the Lands of the Maghreb;
* that he was coordinating " sleeper cells" to go for training and return to Morocco.
Death
Bin Shakaran, under the transliteration of his name ''"Brahim Benchekroun"'', was killed in Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
in 2014.[ He was killed by Syrian Army sniper in a rebel ]offensive
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* Offensive (military), an attack
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References
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1979 births
2014 deaths
Moroccan extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
People from Casablanca