Names Of Gitmo Detainees Released

[WhiteTara]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/19/terror/main1517015.shtml

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, April 19, 2006
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"Lawyers have been asking for this stuff for 2 1/2 years."
Mark Denbeaux, law professor at Seton Hall University


(AP) They are from Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and 39 other countries. Many have been held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years. Nearly all were labeled enemy combatants, but only a handful have faced formal charges.

In all, 558 people were listed in documents released by the Pentagon late Wednesday in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit from The Associated Press. They were among the first swept up in the U.S. global war on terrorism for suspected links to al Qaeda or the Taliban.

The list is the first official roster of Guantanamo detainees who passed through the Combatant Status Review Tribunal process in 2004 and 2005 to determine whether they should be deemed "enemy combatants."
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With the list released Wednesday, which was accompanied by some 500 more pages of transcripts that the Pentagon said it inadvertently omitted from earlier releases, the Pentagon went further than ever in identifying who has been held at the high-security detention center on a U.S. Navy base at the southeastern edge of Cuba.

The new information will help lawyers for detainees and human rights groups who have tried to monitor Guantanamo Bay, said Mark Denbeaux, a law professor at Seton Hall University in New Jersey who has analyzed previous Guantanamo Bay documents released by the Pentagon.

Note the place where this news story was released...yep, San Juan Puerto Rico. Once again, trying to hide their misdeeds

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. At least families now know

that their loved ones aren't dead. Sorry, but even if they were all the vilest of terrorists, they should be treated as human beings, and Geneva Conventions followed.

[Terran1212]

9. True

[lapfog_1]

2. After 4 years in that hellhole we created

if they weren't enemy combatants before, they are now.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Why do you think they have not been let out?

We grabbed people and incarcerated them with absolutely no legal recourse or legal standing. We couldn't let them go even when it was established they had done nothing wrong, because now they hate us and will certainly do something wrong if let go. So we hold them, which makes them even more determined to do something wrong, so we hold them, which makes them even more determined, so we hold them....

You get the picture.

[enough]

4. Terribly true, and all the more reason why the names must be known.

k&r

[BeFree]

5. 2 1/2 years

Where's the justice? It is a violation of basic human rights, and it took four years to get just their names?

[Zenlitened]

6. Secret detentions are flat-out un-American.

That's not an opinion. That's a fact.

[baby_mouse]

7. ooooh the gitmo boys are shitting themselves...

And the picture's starting to get clearer...

[ThomCat]

8. A lot of people need to spend years in jail

for this entire travesty. I say we start with war crime tribunals at the top and work our way down.

[Pachamama]

10. Prisoners (I mean detainees) from 41 Countries?

How many more countries does that leave that we haven't been holding some of their citizens in detention without charges?

Scary....remember America, NEARLY ALL WERE LABELED ENEMY COMBATANTS! Something this President has claimed authority to do to any American Citizen! That means any US Citizen could be declared an Enemy Combatant, whisked away without any charges, without their family knowing where they are and without the ability to consult an attorney or have due process.

:scared:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. 558 seems low.

But if the Pentagon said it, I believe it.

[Festivito]

12. We know some have died. Are they listed?

I wonder how much this list is doctored.

We also know they hid some from Red Cross inspectors.
Are they listed now?