Abdullah Tabarak Ahmad

Abdullah Tabarak Ahmad (عبدالله تبارك أحمد) (Guantanamo detainee ID is 56) is a citizen of Morocco, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense reports that Ahmad was born on December 12, 1955, in Casablanca, Morocco.

Abdullah Tabarak was captured near the Pakistan-Afghan border in December 2001 and he was transferred to Morocco on July 1, 2003.

Allegations

Tabarak is alleged to have been one of Osama bin Laden's guards.He is alleged to have volunteered to have taken bin Laden's satellite phone, in order to sacrifice himself, by diverting the attention of US authorities, allowing bin Laden to escape from Tora Bora., Sydney Morning Herald, January 22, 2003

Access denied

The Red Cross reported that Tabarak was one of the detainees that they were not allowed access to., Sydney Morning Herald, June 14, 2004 A memo from a meeting held on October 9, 2003 summarizing a meeting between General Geoffrey Miller and his staff and Vincent Cassard of the International Committee of the Red Cross , acknowledged that camp authorities were not permitting the ICRC to have access to Ahmad, due to "military necessity"., Department of Defense, October 9, 2003

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