Mahr Rafat Al Quwari or Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari is a Palestinian who was detained at
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...
due to being accused of alliance to
al-Qaeda
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. According to the
United States Department of Defense, he was in charge of bookkeeping for supply and logistics operations of the
al-Qaeda
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fighters in the
Tora Bora mountains.
According to another source, he and other Arabs were kidnapped and detained by Afghan armed men for one month then he was turned over to US troops and rendered to
Bagram and eventually to
Guantanamo.
He was cleared for release in 2007 but never got out,
[ instead, he was transferred to Hungary in 2009.][
]
References
1965 births
Living people
Detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp
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