Imad Achab Kanouni is a French citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
[2] Under French law, detainees like Kanouni can be held, for up to three years, under the control of a judge.
[3] Kanouni was released from custody and put on a kind of parole[clarification needed] on July 9, 2005.
[5] Testifying in his own defense, on July 3, 2006, Kanouni told a French court that he had traveled to Afghanistan to pursue religious education, that he didn't agree with Osama bin Laden, and never attended any military training camps.
He did acknowledge: "I was ready to die for a good cause, defend people who were attacked in their countries"[6] His Internment Serial Number at Guantanamo was 164.