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List of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Detainees by nationality. Afghan (29%) Saudis (17%) Yemenis (15%) Pakistanis (9%) Algerians (3%) Others (27%) As of December 2023, 30 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay. [1][2][3] This list of Guantánamo prisoners has the known identities of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, but is ...
Managed by. United States Navy. The Guantanamo Bay detention camp[ note 1 ] is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), also called GTMO (pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/ GIT-moh) on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in January 2002 by U.S. President George W. Bush to hold terrorism suspects ...
Name Other name(s) Detained Country Notes 1: Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul: Abu Anas al-Makki: 2002: Yemen: Convicted in 2008 of conspiring with al-Qaeda, soliciting murder and providing material support for terrorism, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Timeline of the release and transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees. In late 2008, the Department of Defense published a list of the Guantanamo captives who died in custody, were freed, or were repatriated to the custody of another country. [ 1 ] The list was drafted on October 8, 2008, and was published on November 26, 2008.
Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh. List of Saudi detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Tariq al-Sawah. Abdul Rahman Shalabi. Mustafa al-Shamyri. Ghassan al-Sharbi. Abdu Ali al Haji Sharqawi. Ramzi bin al-Shibh. Said Ali al-Shihri.
As early as 2004, the US government claimed that detainees released from Guantanamo Bay detainment camp had returned to the battlefield. [2] Initially, government spokesmen claimed relatively small numbers of former Guantanamo captives had returned to the battlefield. In a press briefing on March 6, 2007, a "Senior Defense official" commented: [3]
Rear Admiral Thomas H. Copeman III, Commandant of the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, ordered the posting of the official list of Guantanamo captives cleared in 2009. [1] [2] During the last years of the Presidency of George W. Bush captives had annual reviews conducted by an Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.
The Americans captured many men in Afghanistan; they suspected them of being allied with the Taliban or al-Qaeda and transported them to a detention camp set up at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station for interrogation, in effort to penetrate terrorist networks and prevent future attacks. Among these were at least nine men who had previously been ...