GOE SEEKING INFORMATION ON EGYPTIANS REPORTEDLY

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. Visit Embassy Cairo's Classified Website: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/cairo You can also access this site through the State Department's Classified SIPRNET website. GRAY