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US reveals full Guantanamo list<br><br>
Tuesday 16 May 2006 4:32 AM GMT <br>
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</a><b>The Pentagon has disclosed the names, ages and home countries of
everyone held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in southeastern Cuba as a
suspect in the US-led war on terror.<br><br>
</b></font><font size=2>The US says it has held 759 males, from teenagers
to men older than 70, from more than 40 countries, according to the list
released late on Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act
lawsuit filed by The Associated Press.<br><br>
The list includes about 200 previously undisclosed names. They are former
Guantanamo detainees who were moved out before the military began
hearings in summer 2004 to determine whether detainees were properly
classified as "enemy combatants" who should be held at the
base.<br><br>
The list includes the 10 detainees who have been charged with crimes, but
it does not include the most notorious US prisoners, such as alleged
September 11 plotters Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh - whose
whereabouts are secret.<br><br>
"There's still much more in darkness," said Priti Patel, a
lawyer with New York-based Human Rights First who has monitored legal
proceedings at Guantanamo.<br><br>
Lawyers and other advocates will be able to use the list to track who has
been held at the base and find former detainees to help investigate
allegations of abuse, Patel said.<br><br>
The Pentagon released the list while denying the AP access to other
information about the detainees, who were mostly held on suspicion of
links to al-Qaeda or the Taliban after the US-led invasion of
Afghanistan.<br><br>
The handover is the first time that everyone who has been held by the
defence department at Guantanamo Bay has been identified, said Navy
Lieutenant Commander Chito Peppler, a Pentagon spokesman.<br><br>
Last month, the military released the names of 558 detainees, in response
to an AP lawsuit.<br><br>
The names of all detainees held at Guantanamo Bay were classified because
of "the security operation as well as the intelligence operation
that takes place down there," said Pentagon spokesman Bryan
Whitman.<br><br>
The new list, when compared with the one from April, shows that the
Pentagon released many Afghans who were caught early in the war. More
than 90 were transferred out of Guantanamo from January 2002 to summer
2004.<br><br>
Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union,
believes that US officials are trying to deflect international criticism
by gradually moving out detainees.<br><br>
"They are trying to slowly let the air out of the tires as a way to
make the problem go away," Romero said.<br><br>
<b>Incomplete information <br>
</b>The list released on Monday does not specify what has happened to
former detainees.<br><br>
The fate of some is documented. All British nationals were transferred
back to Britain. What has become of dozens of other detainees was not
known.<br><br>
Some could be free. Others could be in secret US detention centres or in
torture cells of prisons in other countries.<br><br>
The US military says about 480 detainees are now at Guantanamo Bay. Those
released or transferred numbered 275.<br><br>
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