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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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.
- At the end of April 2001, the detainee traveled to Afghanistan via Qatar, Bahrain, Karachi, Quetta, and Chaman, Pakistan.
- The detainee traveled to Afghanistan to join the Taliban and to fight against the Northern Alliance.
- The detainee was a member of a Taliban rifle squad equipped with AK-47s.
- A member of the same Taliban rifle squad has been identified as Abdul ((Khaliq)).
- ################# is a Taliban leader and a commander of Afghan Military Forces (AMF).
- The detainee and eleven Afghanis spent six months protecting troop bunkers and holding a defensive line near Kabul, Afghanistan.
- The detainee stayed at a Taliban mosque in Chaman, Pakistan, for two months.
- The detainee left his defensive position near Kabul, Afghanistan, and fled to Pakistan.
On March 16, 2007 the Department of Defense published records of the captives' height and weights.[3][4]
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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