Background
The United States Department of Defense reports he was born on 5 August 1973, in Roskilde, Denmark. His mother is Danish and his father is Algerian.
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Slimane Abderrahmane
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His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 323. Abderrahmane is reported to have been inspired to travel to Afghanistan in the late 1990s in a mosque in Grimhøjvej, founded by an Algerian refugee named Athme Meheri. Danish journalist Morten Skjoldager described Meheri"s mosque as a "radical mosque" in his book "Truslen indefra" ("the threat from within").
Abderrahmane was captured, in December 2001, in Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border.
He was transferred to Guantanamo on February 10, 2002. He was repatriated to Denmark on 24 February 2004.
Abderrahmane was held in Guantanamo Bay for over two years. According to an article in United States News & World Report he was released in spite of reservations from United States security officials because the Danes had threatened to withdraw their troops if he was not released.
Abderrahmane was the subject of a 2004 book entitled "Den naive terrorist".
After his release Abderrahmane announced plans to travel to fight in Chechnya. He said he regarded the document he signed promising not to take part in terrorist activity as "toilet paper". Danish security officials talked him out of his trip.
He has said that Denmark"s role in the Occupation of Iraq meant that he thought Danish leaders were legitimate military targets.
On 10 October 2007 in the Copenhagen suburb of Greve, Abderrahmane was sentenced to 10 months in jail for the theft of two passports and three creditcards which he used to withdraw more than 110,000 Danish kroner (approximately United States$20,000). The items were stolen from the mail sorting office where Abderrahmane was working under a new Danish name.
Police only recovered a small proportion of the stolen money and it is unknown where or how the remainder of the money was spent. During the trial, Abderrahmane refused to testify.
He also refused to speak to or co-operate with his assigned lawyer
In 2013, it was reported that he had been killed after joining the Syrian Civil War against Bashar al Assad. wrote that Slimane's death underscored the International contribution to the Syrian opposition. On 25 August 2014 the High Court of Eastern Denmark refused to issue a legal finding of death regarding Slimane Hahj Abderrahmane. The appeals court did not find any facts sufficiently substantiated an assumption of death.
