US embassy cable - 05CAIRO4757

C O N F I D E N T I A L CAIRO 004757 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/22/2015 
TAGS: PHUM, PREL, MOPS, EG, IZ 
SUBJECT: GOE SEEKING INFORMATION ON EGYPTIANS REPORTEDLY 
DETAINED AT CAMP BUCCA 
 
Classified by Acting DCM Michael Corbin for reasons 1.4 (b) 
and (d). 
 
1. (U) This is an action message.  Please see request in 
paragraph 4. 
 
2. (C) During a June 22 meeting, Ambassador Ahmed Tayyeb, 
Assistant Foreign Minister for Consular Affairs, raised with 
A/DCM the cases of six Egyptian citizens the GOE believes may 
in the custody of U.S. Multi-National Forces at Camp Bucca, 
Iraq.  Tayyeb said the GOE had received this information from 
the ICRC and had no further details about what these 
Egyptians were doing in Iraq or why they might have been 
detained. 
 
3. (C) Tayyeb provided an aide-memoire containing the 
following data on the detainees: 
 
A. Ahmad Mohammad Abdelhalim Alroubi 
DOB 11/1/1955, Detention number: US167346; 
 
B. Maher Mansour Ahmad Almashi 
DOB 11/13/1961, Detention number: US167352; 
 
C. Amr Ibrahim Mohammad Mostafa Moussa 
DOB 05/21/1976, Detention number: US160032; 
 
D. Kamal Abbas Morsi Moussa 
DOB 4/20/1959, Detention number: US167880; 
 
E. Farghali Hamdan Bashir Farghal 
DOB 1953, Detention number: US169297; 
 
F. Hossein Alsayed Atieh Moussa 
DOB 1951, Detention number: US169327 
 
4. (C) Action Request:  Please provide any information 
available about the above named detainees that we can share 
with the GOE. 
 
 
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http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/cairo 
 
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State Department's Classified SIPRNET website. 
 
GRAY