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Munir Awad, and his fiancee, [[Safia Benaouda]], were captured when [[Kenya]] forces, with [[United States]] support, invaded [[Somalia]]. |
Munir Awad, and his fiancee, [[Safia Benaouda]] (daughter to Helena Benaouda, head of Sweden's Muslim Council), were captured when [[Kenya]] forces, with [[United States]] support, invaded [[Somalia]]. |
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The pair describe being held in extrajudicial detention following the invasion, together with a large number of foreigners. They were eventually released.<ref name=Ctv2007/><ref name=PressTv2007-04-14/> |
The pair describe being held in extrajudicial detention following the invasion, together with a large number of foreigners. They were eventually released.<ref name=Ctv2007/><ref name=PressTv2007-04-14/> |
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Revision as of 15:30, 31 December 2010
| Munir Awad | |
|---|---|
| Arrested | 2007 Somalia |
| Released | 2007 |
| Citizenship | Sweden |
| Detained at | black sites |
| Charge(s) | extrajudicial detention |
Munir Awad is a citizen of Sweden who has fallen under suspicion of an association with terrorism.[1][2][3] Munir Awad, and his fiancee, Safia Benaouda (daughter to Helena Benaouda, head of Sweden's Muslim Council), were captured when Kenya forces, with United States support, invaded Somalia.
The pair describe being held in extrajudicial detention following the invasion, together with a large number of foreigners. They were eventually released.[1][2] They told reporters that the soldiers who captured them were led by Americans and that Americans ran their interrogations.
According to an interview his fiancee gave to Raymond Bonner of the International Herald Tribune her interrogators kept asking her questions about a trip they said her boyfriend took to Denmark to recruit jihadists.[4] Benaouda told her interviewer that she told her interrogators that Awad had never been to Denmark, and that he didn't convert to Islam until after 2004.
Benaouda said she and her boyfriend had traveled to Dubai, on vacation, but were disappointed at how commercialized facilities for tourists were.[4] So they traveled to Somalia to see a more traditional Muslim culture. They arrived in Somalia shortly before it was invaded by Kenya.
On August 20 2009 the pair and their young child were apprehended in Pakistan, together with fellow Swede Mehdi Ghezali, and nine other non-Pakistanis.[3] Ghezali is reported to have told authorities that they were traveling to Lahore to participate in a Tablighi Jamaat conference. Mohammad Rizwan, the chief of police of Dera Ghazi Khan, who captured the individuals, has told the press that their luggage included a laptop computer, $10,000 USD and a suicide belt.
In November 2010, the two muslim organisations Cageprisoners and The Muslim Human Rights Committee (MMRK) published a report on Munir Awads innocence. [5] The paper was co-authoured by the spokesman for the MMRK, Kitimbwa Sabuni, who is related to Swedish Minister Nyamko Sabuni.
On December 29 2010 he was once again arrested in Denmark, this time for allegedly planning a "Mumbai-style" attack in revenge for the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.[6][7][8]
References
- ^ a b "Ethiopia shows eight terror detainees on TV". CTV News. 2007-04-11. Archived from the original on 2009-09-16.
- ^ a b "Swedish teen says US led detention". Press TV. 2007-04-14. Archived from the original on 2009-09-16.
- ^ a b "Terror suspect Swedes still detained: Pakistan". The Local. 2009-09-16. Archived from the original on 2009-09-16.
- ^ a b Raymond Bonner (2007-04-15). "Lark to Africa descends into Somali nightmare". International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on 2009-09-16.
- ^ {http://pdfcast.org/pdf/danish-terrorist-suspect-monir-awad-nowhere-to-go-sweden-s-complicity-in-the-world-wide-detention-of NOWHERE TO GO - Sweden’s complicity in the world-wide detention of Monir Awad, Cageprisoners & MMRK, Novemver 2010]
- ^ Josefine Elfström (2010-12-30). "Munir Awad en av de häktade Munir Awad en av de häktade - tidigare misstänkt som terrorist (In Swedish)". Expressen.
- ^ Alexandra Sandels (2010-12-30). "Denmark terrorism suspects plead not guilty". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Chilling details emerge in Danish terrorist attack plot probe". The Vancouver Sun. 2010-12-31.