Career
Abou was first apprehended in Pakistan, in February 2002, who handed him over to American authorities. Abou was flown to Morocco in May 2002, and remains in extrajudicial detention there. Abou joined with four other men, Bisher First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Rawi, Binyam Mohamed, Ahmed Agiza and Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah, to sue the Jeppesen Dataplan a company with a contract with the United States government to run the fleet of jets used in the extraordinary rendition program
Marc Ambinder, commenting in the Atlantic magazine explained the United States President Barack Obama was opposing the men discovery, on the grounds doing so would expose techniques that would put the United States of America"s national security at risk.