The Shin Bet Security Service on Monday released from jail a Jordanian-born Pakistani who had been detained in Israel for 50 days on suspicions of involvement in a terror network affiliated with global jihad. Marwan Ibrahim Ali Jabur, whose parents are Palestinian, spent the last two and a half years under detention in Pakistan, the United States, Jordan and Israel. He was released to relatives in the Gaza Strip a day before the court was scheduled to consider extending his remand. As revealed in Haaretz last week, Jabur was first arrested in Pakistan in May 2004, where he was interrogated under difficult and torturous conditions. He was transferred to US forces after 15 days and flown to an unknown location, which he described as a place where “music was playing 24 hours a day and the soldiers would beat us nonstop”. This description indicates Jabur was apparently held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba, where the United States holds Al Qaeda operatives. From there he was flown to Jordan under American escort, where he spent a month and a half under interrogation before being imprisoned at the Shin Bet Security Service wing at the Kishon jail.
| Jabur was born on in 1976 Amman, Jordan, to Palestinian refugees from the Gaza town of Khan Yunis, grew up in Saudi Arabia, and moved to Pakistan at the age of 19 to study mechanical engineering. |
Jabur was born on in 1976 Amman, Jordan, to Palestinian refugees from the Gaza town of Khan Yunis, grew up in Saudi Arabia, and moved to Pakistan at the age of 19 to study mechanical engineering. There he met and married a Pakistani woman and they had three children. He became a Pakistani citizen - he holds both a Pakistani passport and a Palestinian ID. He completed his engineering internship in France, after which he returned to Pakistan and visited Afghanistan several times.