US releases fullest Guantanamo jail list to date

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday issued its most comprehensive accounting to date of detainees currently or formerly held at the Guantanamo prison for foreign terrorism suspects, naming 759 people and their nationalities.

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Chito Peppler, a Pentagon spokesman, said the list named "every single individual detained under DoD (Department of Defense) control" at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since the jail opened in January 2002.

Asked whether that meant some detainees may have been held outside of Defense Department control at Guantanamo by other U.S. agencies like the CIA, Peppler said, "I wouldn't know because I can't speak for other agencies."


The 18-page list was disclosed and posted on a Pentagon Web site (http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detaineesFOIArelease15May2006.pdf) in conjunction with an ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Associated Press. It listed detainees by name, citizenship, place of birth, date of birth and an internment identification number.

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[Eugene]

1. AP: Pakistani Demands Access to Detainees

Pakistani Demands Access to Detainees


Tuesday May 16, 2006 10:31 AM

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The United States should follow its disclosure of the names
of all Guantanamo Bay detainees by allowing U.N. rights investigators complete access
to the prison, the chairwoman of Pakistan's independent human rights commission said
Tuesday.

Asma Jehangir, who has served on a U.N. panel that recently issued a scathing report
on Guantanamo, also demanded compensation for freed detainees and accused Pakistani
intelligence of intimidating Pakistani inmates who had been released from the facility
in Cuba and repatriated.

Jehangir said that despite the Pentagon's release of 759 detainee names - the result
of a lawsuit filed by The Associated Press - the lack of information about parentage,
addresses or where they were arrested made it very difficult to trace their relatives.

"We want full information. We don't want bits and pieces, and we don't want this game
that is played between the U.S. and its so-called allies in the war on terrorism,"
Jehangir told The Associated Press.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5824916,00.html

[annabanana]

2. Guantanamo is a black eye on the bloodied face of our Country.

The shining city on a hill is brought low.

[underpants]

3. Pentagon Discloses List of (ALL)Gitmo Detainees

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1966411

Pentagon Hands Over List of All Detainees Held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico May 16, 2006 (AP)— After years of secrecy, the Pentagon has disclosed the names, ages and home countries of everyone held at the isolated Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in southeastern Cuba as a suspect in the U.S.-led war on terror.

None of the most notorious terrorist suspects was included in the list, raising questions about their whereabouts.

The U.S. says it has held 759 males, ranging from teenagers to older than 70, from more than 40 countries, according to the list released late Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by The Associated Press.

While the list includes the 10 detainees who have been charged with crimes, it doesn't include alleged Sept. 11 plotters Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh whose whereabouts remain secret.

[leesa]

4. 749 people incarcerated for years without any charges. Shameful

Bush should be jailed for this alone.

[Pachamama]

6. They are holding TEENAGERS at GITMO? OMG!!!

That is just so outrageous! Everything about this administration outrages me! They crap all over the Constitution, have no regard for habeas corpus or due process and they are unlawfully detaining these people without charges or official arrest and no rights. And now we even find out teenagers! Some parent somewhere in one of those 40 countries doesn't know where their child is!

The right wing Bush bots have no problem with this, including if they are even told that many of these people are innocent and were just at the wrong place at the wrong time (similar to Abu Gharaib). What so many of these Bush bots forget, is that this could happen here too! Anyone could be declared here in this country an "enemy combatant" and end up in a jail cell somewhere without any charges and no right to a lawyer...indefintely. Is this the American Way?

[sinkingfeeling]

5. I noticed there were almost twice as many Britons as Iraqis listed.

[Pachamama]

7. They are holding TEENAGERS at GITMO? OMG!!!

That is just so outrageous! Everything about this administration outrages me! They crap all over the Constitution, have no regard for habeas corpus or due process and they are unlawfully detaining these people without charges or official arrest and no rights. And now we even find out teenagers! Some parent somewhere in one of those 40 countries doesn't know where their child is!

The right wing Bush bots have no problem with this, including if they are even told that many of these people are innocent and were just at the wrong place at the wrong time (similar to Abu Gharaib). What so many of these Bush bots forget, is that this could happen here too! Anyone could be declared here in this country an "enemy combatant" and end up in a jail cell somewhere without any charges and no right to a lawyer...indefintely. Is this the American Way?