Gitmo List Raises Questions genre: Just Jihad & Polispeak
Where oh where can they be? The Pentagon has released a list of all the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay In Cuba; however none of the known high profile individuals appeared on the list. The absence of these well known names left open the longstanding question of whether the U.S. is operating detention facilities in other foreign countries. Read the full article here.
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.
The Pentagon released the list while denying the AP access to other information about the detainees, most of whom were held on suspicion of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban following the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.
The list released Monday also does not specify what has happened to former Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Some could be free. Others could be in secret U.S. detention centers, or in torture cells of prisons in other countries.
Daniel DiRito | May 16, 2006 | 7:27 AM
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