Hassan Kettani, a GAAC board member, is a Moroccan imam and a former political prisoner in Morocco. Kettani was an “ideological leader” of Moroccan Islamist group Salafia Jihadia that Moroccan authorities claim helped coordinate the 2003 Casablanca bombings that resulted in the deaths of 45 people. In 2003, Kettani was given a 20-year sentence for his involvement in the bombings but was pardoned in 2012 after serving 9 years.