Yusuf al Ahmadi was the leader of the terrorist group known as ICO (Islamic Caliphate Organization) along with his brother Ahmed al Ahmadi. At some point in 2016, Yusuf was captured and imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay. When the ICO sympathizers Joshua Masterson and Zachary Hawthorne took the Miller family hostage, Yusuf is taken to the White House where Claire Underwood convinces him to speak with the two young men so they will release the hostages in return for leniency. During the video call, Ahmadi has a change of heart and yells in Arabic for the boys to kill Jim Miller. He was subsequently sent back to prison with nothing.