Rawi was accused of having twice met with a former commander of the Ba'athist militant group Jeish Muhammad in 2004, and having told the commander that the group would receive material support from the Syrian government.
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In a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nour al-Maliki in January 2009, David Petraeus, Commander of United States Central Command, listed Rawi as being one of the more dangerous members of the insurgency linked with the former Ba'athist government, although also downplayed the risk posed by such groups when compared to that posed by al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Mutlaq Hamid Al-Otaibi | Mahmoud Fawzi | Da'i al-Mutlaq | Fawzi Moussouni | Fawzi al-Qawuqji |
On March 29, 2007 UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett announced that the UK Government had negotiated al-Rawi's return from Guantanamo.
On March 29, 2007, UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett announced that the UK Government had negotiated the return from Guantanamo of el-Banna's traveling companion, Bisher al-Rawi, also a legal British resident.