Said Bezan Ashek Shayban

Said Bezan Ashek Shayban is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] Shayban's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 346. American intelligence analysts estimate that Shayban was born in 1981, in Ta'iz, Saudi Arabia.

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Combatant Status Review

A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his tribunal. The memo listed the following allegations against him:[2]

a. The detainee is associated with the Taliban.
  1. At the end of April 2001, the detainee traveled to Afghanistan via Qatar, Bahrain, Karachi, Quetta, and Chaman, Pakistan.
  2. The detainee traveled to Afghanistan to join the Taliban and to fight against the Northern Alliance.
  3. The detainee was a member of a Taliban rifle squad equipped with AK-47s.
  4. A member of the same Taliban rifle squad has been identified as Abdul ((Khaliq)).
  5. ################# is a Taliban leader and a commander of Afghan Military Forces (AMF).
  6. The detainee and eleven Afghanis spent six months protecting troop bunkers and holding a defensive line near Kabul, Afghanistan.
  7. The detainee stayed at a Taliban mosque in Chaman, Pakistan, for two months.
  8. The detainee left his defensive position near Kabul, Afghanistan, and fled to Pakistan.

Medical records

On March 16, 2007 the Department of Defense published records of the captives' height and weights.[3][4]

Repatriation

On November 26, 2008, the Department of Defense published a list of captives' departure dates.[5] According to that list Shayban was repatriated on May 18, 2006.

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