Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Part 3)
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First published in March 2009, this list was updated on January 1, 2010, when 574 prisoners had been released (42 under Obama), and 198 remained, and was updated again on July 12, 2010, when 591 prisoners had been released, and 181 remained.
The following list (also see Part 1, Part 2 and Part 4) is part of an ongoing project (now in its fifth year) to record the stories of all the prisoners held at the US prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The first fruit of this research was my book The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, published by Pluto Press, distributed by Macmillan in the US, and available from Amazon (US and UK), in which I related the story of Guantánamo, established a chronology explaining where and when the prisoners were seized, told the stories of around 450 of these prisoners, and provided a context for the circumstances in which the remainder of the prisoners were captured.
Between November 2007 and February 2009, I also published 12 online chapters telling the stories of over 250 prisoners that I was unable to include in the book (either because they were not available at the time of writing, or to keep the book at a manageable length), and since May 2007 I have written over 650 articles about Guantánamo, for a variety of publications, expanding on and updating the stories of all 779 prisoners. In particular, I have covered the stories of the 199 prisoners released from Guantánamo since June 2007 in unprecedented depth. I have also covered the stories of the 27 prisoners charged in Guantánamo’s Military Commission trial system in more detail than is available from most, if not all other sources, and have endeavored to do the same with the Guantánamo prisoners’ habeas corpus petitions, covering the 51 cases decided to date in the District Court in Washington D.C. (37 of which have been won by the prisoners) as thoroughly as possible.
As a result, this is the most comprehensive list ever published of the 779 prisoners who have been held at Guantánamo, providing details of the 591 prisoners who have been released (and the dates of their release), and the 181 prisoners who are still held (including the prisoners cleared for release but not freed under President Bush, and, where possible, identifying some of the 97 remaining prisoners cleared for release by President Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force). I will, of course, continue to update it as more prisoners are released.
The list provides links to my articles or online chapters telling the stories of over 400 prisoners, and, where these are not available online, provides references for the chapters in The Guantánamo Files where their stories can be found. The stories of 87 prisoners remain unknown, because they were released in 2003 or 2004, and the Pentagon has not been obliged to publish any information relating to these men, and their stories have not surfaced in the media or in research undertaken by NGOs.
It is my hope that this project will provide an invaluable research tool for those seeking to understand how it came to pass that the government of the United States turned its back on domestic and international law, establishing torture as official US policy, and holding men without charge or trial neither as prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions, nor as criminal suspects to be put forward for trial in a federal court, but as “illegal enemy combatants.”
I also hope that it provides a compelling explanation of how that same government, under the leadership of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, established a prison in which the overwhelming majority of those held — at least 93 percent of the 779 men and boys imprisoned in total — were either completely innocent people, seized as a result of dubious intelligence or sold for bounty payments, or Taliban foot soldiers, recruited to fight an inter-Muslim civil war that began long before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and that had nothing to do with al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or international terrorism.
Andy Worthington, London, July 2010
How to use the list
In the categories below, ISN refers to the Internment Serial Number by which the prisoners are (or were) known and identified in Guantánamo, followed by the prisoners’ status (released, cleared for release, still held, or, in five cases, deceased), their names (with just some of the many different permutations noted, in some cases), their nationality, and links or references to chapters in The Guantánamo Files. Links on the release dates feed into articles published when the prisoners were released.
Of the prisoners cleared for release, some, as indicated, were cleared by military review boards under the Bush administration, others (37 at the time of writing) had been cleared by judges in US courts, who had granted their habeas corpus petitions, and 97 had been cleared by the Obama administration’s interagency Task Force, which reviewed their cases last year. The Task Force has not announced the names of the prisoners it has cleared (although many are the same as those cleared under Bush, and the figures also include those cleared by the courts). As a result, several dozen prisoners in these lists have also been cleared, but I am unable to provide details.
To establish more context, the chapters in the book, and the online chapters, deal with the following places in which the prisoners were seized (or, in other cases, their rendition and torture in secret prisons):
Captured in Afghanistan: Chapters 2, 3, 9, 10, 14, 17, Website Extras 1, 2, 7, 8, 11, 12
Captured crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan: Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, Website Extras 3, 4, 5, 6
Captured in Pakistan: Chapters 12, 13, Website Extras 9, 10
Subjected to “extraordinary rendition” and/or detention in secret prisons: Chapters 16, 20, Website Extras 11
In addition, Chapter 8 refers to imprisonment at the US prison at Kandahar airport, Chapter 11 deals with the early months of Guantánamo’s existence, Chapter 14 also deals with imprisonment in the US prison at Bagram airbase, Chapter 15 refers to torture and abuse in Guantánamo, Chapter 18 refers to legal challenges, and Chapter 19 refers to hunger strikes, suicide attempts and medical malpractice.
The 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo (Part 3)
ISN – Status – Name – Nationality – References
Mostly captured in Jalalabad or in the vicinity of Tora Bora (Dec 01)
497 RELEASED FEB 07 Al Subii, Nasir (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 2
498 Haidel, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapter 8, Website Extras 2
499 RELEASED JUL 04 Chekhouri, Redouane (Morocco) No information
500 RELEASED MAR 04 Turkash, Emdash Abdullah (Turkmenistan) No information
501 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Otaibi, Nawaf (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 2
502 CLEARED (under Bush) Ourgy, Abdul (Tunisia) Chapter 4, also see Italy’s Guantánamo: Obama Plans “Rendition” Of Tunisians In Guantánamo To Italian Jail
503 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Zuba, Saleh (Yemen) Chapter 4
504 RELEASED SEP 04 Amin, Aminulla (Pakistan) No information
505 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Muri, Khalid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 2
506 Al Dhuby, Khalid (Yemen) Website Extras 2
507 RELEASED DEC 06 Al Anazi, Sultan (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4
508 Al Rabie, Salman (Yemen) Chapter 4 (footnote), Website Extras 2
509 Khusruf, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapters 4, 16
510 RELEASED DEC 09 (extradited to Italian custody) Nasseri, Riyad (Tunisia) Chapter 4, also see Italy’s Guantánamo: Obama Plans “Rendition” Of Tunisians In Guantánamo To Italian Jail
511 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Feb 2010), CLEARED (under Bush) Al Nahdi, Sulaiman (Yemen) Chapter 4, The Black Hole of Guantánamo, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Consigning Soldiers to Oblivion
512 RELEASED JUL 03 Sadik, Mamhud (Mohammed Saduq) (Afghanistan) Website Extras 9
513 RELEASED DEC 06 Khowlan, Abdul Rahman (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4
514 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Anazi, Abdullah (Al Unazi Thani) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4
515 RELEASED MAR 04 Ul Haq, Israr (Pakistan) Website Extras 8
516 RELEASED JUL 07 Al Harbi, Ghanim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4
517 RELEASED MAY 03 Mohammed, Sultan (Afghanistan) No information
518 RELEASED NOV 03 Akah, Khirullah (Afghanistan) No information
519 POSSIBLY RELEASED DEC 09 Al Quwari, Mahrar (Palestine) Chapter 4, mentioned in More Dubious Charges in the Guantánamo Trials, Guantánamo’s refugees
520 RELEASED MAY 03 Karim, Abdul (Afghanistan) No information
521 RELEASED NOV 08 Kerimbakiev, Abdulrahim (Kazakhstan) Chapter 10
522 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Apr 2010) Ismail, Yasin (Yemen) Chapter 4, An Insignificant Yemeni at Guantánamo Loses His Habeas Petition
523 RELEASED MAY 03 Ehssanullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 8
524 RELEASED SEP 04 Anwar, Mohammed (Pakistan) Chapter 9
525 RELEASED MAR 04 Gul, Ataullah Adam (Afghanistan) No information
526 RELEASED DEC 06 Abahanov, Yakub (Kazakhstan) Chapter 10, mentioned in Release of three prisoners highlights failures of Guantánamo
527 RELEASED SEP 04 Daoud, Mohamman (Afghanistan) Website Extras 2
528 RELEASED DEC 06 Magrupov, Abdullah (Kazakhstan) Chapter 10, mentioned in Release of three prisoners highlights failures of Guantánamo
529 RELEASED SEP 04 Khan, Bacha (Pakistan) No information
530 RELEASED SEP 04 Gul, Dawd (Afghanistan) Website Extras 8
531 RELEASED MAY 03 Hanan, Abdul (Afghanistan) Website Extras 8
532 RELEASED AUG 07 Sharif, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 8
533 RELEASED JAN 2010 Zumiri, Hassan (Ahcene Zemiri) (Algeria-Canada) Chapter 4
534 RELEASED MAR 04 Dergoul, Tarek (UK) Chapters 4, 8, 11, 15, 19, also see UK Government Lies Exposed; Spy Visited Binyam Mohamed In Morocco, What The British Government Knew About The Torture Of Binyam Mohamed, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues (discussing the prisoners who died in June 2006)
535 El Sawah, Tariq (Al Sawah) (Bosnia-Egypt) Chapter 4, MILITARY COMMISSION
536 RELEASED FEB 07 Al Harbi, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 8
537 Al Ali, Mahmud (Syria) Website Extras 8
538 RELEASED MAR 04 Alikozi, Amanullah (Afghanistan) No information
539 RELEASED SEP 04 Allah, Noor (Afghanistan) No information
540 RELEASED SEP 04 Omar, Mohammed (Pakistan) Website Extras 8, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
541 RELEASED SEP 04 Noman, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
542 RELEASED MAR 04 Abas, Mohammed (Pakistan) No information
543 RELEASED MAR 04 Mert, Nuri (Turkey) Chapter 10
544 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location –- or held at Bagram –- instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 180, 212 and 241, above, and 548, 583 and 697-8, below)
545 RELEASED JUL 03 Urayman, Sajin (Pakistan) Website Extras 8, The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
546 RELEASED JUL 05 Muhibullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
547 RELEASED SEP 04 Mohammed, Wali (Afghanistan) No information
548 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location –- or held at Bagram –- instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 180, 212, 241 and 544, above, and 583 and 697-8, below)
549 Al Dayi, Omar (Yemen) Website Extras 2
550 Zaid, Walid (Yemen) Chapter 4
551 RELEASED DEC 09, WON HABEAS PETITION (Sep 09) Al Rabiah, Fouad (Al Rabia) (Kuwait) Chapters 4, 18, 19, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo Of Kuwaiti Who Met Bin Laden, A Truly Shocking Guantánamo Story: Judge Confirms That An Innocent Man Was Tortured To Make False Confessions, Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over Ludicrous Security Demands, Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?, Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
552 Al Kandari, Faiz (Kuwait) Chapter 4, also see MILITARY COMMISSION, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Resisting Injustice In Guantánamo: The Story Of Fayiz Al-Kandari, Rubbing Salt in Guantánamo’s Wounds: Task Force Announces Indefinite Detention, US Military Lawyer: Kuwait Needs to Speak Up on Guantánamo, Lawyer for Kuwaitis in Guantánamo Slams Obama over Ludicrous Security Demands
553 Al Baidhani, Abdul Khaliq (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 4 (footnote)
554 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Feb 2010), CLEARED (under Bush) Al Assani, Fehmi (Yemen) Chapter 4, The Black Hole of Guantánamo, Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Consigning Soldiers to Oblivion
555 RELEASED OCT 06 Muhammed, Abdul Majid (Iran) Chapter 10, also see Meltdown at the Guantánamo Trials
Captured in house raids in Pakistan or randomly seized (Nov 01-Feb 02)
556 RELEASED MAY 08 Khan, Abdullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 15, Website Extras 9
557 RELEASED SEP 07 Bin Qumu, Abu Sufian (Libya) Website Extras 9
558 RELEASED JAN 05 Begg, Moazzam (UK) Chapters 12, 14, 15, also see Guantánamo, Bagram and the “Dark Prison”: Binyam Mohamed talks to Moazzam Begg, When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, Moazzam Begg on Ramadan and Eid ul-Fitr in Bagram and Guantánamo, NEW FILM: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo, Photos from the launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, Video: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Plus Clips From “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Q&A with Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash at the Launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Defending Moazzam Begg and Amnesty International, Moazzam Begg’s dignified explanation of why he is not attending Amnesty’s screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Sunday Times misrepresents views of Amnesty’s Sam Zarifi, Moazzam Begg Responds To His Critics, Shaker Aamer’s 3000 Days in Guantánamo: Moazzam Begg Speaks, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record, Dangerous Game: A Reply to Gita Sahgal and Her Supporters
559 RELEASED SEP 04 Bader, Bader Zaman (Afghanistan) Chapter 12
560 Mohammed, Haji Wali (Afghanistan) Chapter 12
561 RELEASED APR 05 Muslim Dost, Abdul Rahim (Afghanistan) Chapter 12, also see Former Guantánamo detainees speak, Poetry and politics at Guantánamo: an interview with Marc Falkoff
562 RELEASED AUG 06 Peerzai, Ehsanullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
563 RELEASED MAR 04 Mohammed, Sohab Mahud (Iraq) No information
564 Bin Amer, Jalal (Yemen) Chapter 12
565 RELEASED DEC 07 Al Mousa, Abdul Hakim (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
566 CLEARED (under Bush) Qattaa, Mansoor (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
567 RELEASED DEC 09 Barre, Mohammed Sulaymon (Mohamed Saleban Bare) (Somalia) Chapter 12, also see “Hell on Earth”: Released Somali Speaks about Guantánamo
568 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Zamel, Adel (Kuwait) Chapters 11, 12, 14, 19
569 Al Shorabi, Zohair (Yemen) Website Extras 9
570 Al Qurashi, Sabri (Yemen) Website Extras 9
571 RELEASED NOV 05 Al Azmi, Sa’ad (Kuwait) Chapter 12
572 CLEARED (under Bush) Al Zabe, Salah (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
573 RELEASED FEB 04 Akhmyarov, Rustam (Russia) Chapter 18
574 Al Wady, Hamoud (Yemen) Chapter 12
575 Al Azani, Saad (Yemen) Chapter 12
576 Bin Hamdoun, Zahir (Yemen) Website Extras 9
577 RELEASED DEC 09 Mar’i, Jamal (Yemen) Chapter 16, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
578 Al Suadi, Abdul Aziz (Yemen) Chapters 12, 19
579 Khairkhwa, Khairullah (Afghanistan) Chapter 12
580 RELEASED JUL 03 Ahmad, Noor (Afghanistan) No information
581 RELEASED MAR 05 Rahman, Saeed Abdur (Pakistan) Chapter 12 (footnote), also see Website Extras 9
582 RELEASED JUL 03 Noorani, Abdul Rahman (Afghanistan) Chapter 15
583 NO ISN (probably a “ghost prisoner,” who was rendered to another location –- or held at Bagram –- instead of being sent to Guantánamo; also see 180, 212, 241, 544 and 548, above, and 697-8, below)
584 RELEASED OCT 09 (in Palau), WON HABEAS PETITION (Oct 08) Noori, Adel (China) Website Extras 9, From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs, Guantánamo Uyghurs’ resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies, A New Year Message to Barack Obama: Free the Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo’s refugees, Bad News And Good News For The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo: A Real Uyghur Slams Newt Gingrich’s Racist Stupidity, Free The Guantánamo Uighurs!, From Guantánamo To The South Pacific: Is This A Joke?, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part One): Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies, Chair Of The American Conservative Union Supports The Guantánamo Uighurs, House Threatens Obama Over Chinese Interrogation Of Uighurs In Guantánamo, A Profile of Rushan Abbas, The Guantánamo Uighurs’ Interpreter, A Plea To Barack Obama From The Guantánamo Uighurs, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, Court Allows Return Of Guantánamo Prisoners To Torture, Justice At Last? Guantánamo Uighurs Ask Supreme Court For Release Into US, Guantánamo Uighurs In Palau: First Interview And Photo, Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship, Palau President Asks Australia to Offer Homes to Guantánamo Uighurs
585 RELEASED MAY 03 Al Umar, Ibrahim (Saudi Arabia) No information
586 RELEASED AUG 05 Khamisan, Karama (Yemen) Chapters 12, 14, 15
587 RELEASED JUL 04 Benchekroun, Brahim (Morocco) Chapters 12, 14
588 DIED IN GUANTANAMO JUN 06 Al Utaybi, Mani (Al Otaibi) (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 19, also see Second Anniversary of Triple Suicide at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Three): Deaths at the Prison, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
589 RELEASED JUL 05 Al Asmar, Khalid (Jordan) Chapter 12
590 RELEASED APR 07 Errachidi, Ahmed (Morocco-UK) Chapters 12, 19, also see The Perils of Return: Repatriated to Torture, Two Americas, both unjust, Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London
Mostly captured in Afghanistan (Nov 01-May 02)
591 RELEASED OCT 06 Esmhatulla, Qari (Afghanistan) Chapter 14 (footnote), also see The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
592-622 NO ISN (probably Afghan prisoners released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)
623 RELEASED MAR 04 Bameri, Bakhtiar (Iran) Chapter 14
624 RELEASED NOV 03 Mehmood, Majid (Pakistan) Website Extras 11
625 NO ISN (probably an Afghan prisoner released from Kandahar/Bagram before transfer to Guantánamo)
626 RELEASED JUL 03 Ullah, Noor Habib (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
627 RELEASED DEC 09 Batarfi, Ayman (Yemen) Chapter 14, also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession, The Story of Ayman Batarfi, a Doctor in Guantánamo, Guantánamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame, 75 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 31 Could Leave Today
628 RELEASED MAY 03 Alizai, Nematuallah Sahib Khan (Afghanistan) No information
629 RELEASED MAY 03 Alikhan, Mahngur (Afghanistan) No information
630 RELEASED JUL 03 Rahmad, Nisar (Afghanistan) No information
631 RELEASED APR 05 Wazir, Padsha (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
632 RELEASED MAY 03 Shah, Rostum (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
633 RELEASED JUL 03 Farooq, Muhammed Naim (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
634 RELEASED MAR 04 Mohammed, Ali (Pakistan) No information
635 RELEASED JUL 03 Akhber, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
636 RELEASED JUL 03 Gul, Nathi (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
637 RELEASED NOV 03 Insanullah (Afghanistan) No information
638 RELEASED MAR 03 Wali, Badshah (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
639 RELEASED MAR 04 Bismillah (Afghanistan) No information
640 RELEASED MAR 03 Wali, Niaz (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
641 RELEASED JUL 04 Ergashev, Abdul-Karim (Abdulrahmon Rajabov) (Tajikistan) Chapter 19, also see Tajikistan: ex-Guantánamo prisoner plans to sue George Bush
642 RELEASED NOV 03 Hamidullah (Afghanistan) No information
643 RELEASED MAY 03 Tahir, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 10
644 RELEASED MAR 03 Muhammed, Mirza (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
645 RELEASED MAR 03 Kabel, Mohammed (Afghanistan) No information
646 RELEASED JUL 03 Asekzai, Azizullah (Afghanistan) No information
647 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Shamaree, Zaban (Al Shammari) (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 11
648 RELEASED MAR 04 Al Tamimi, Haydar Jabbar Hafez (Iraq) No information
649 RELEASED MAR 05 Patel, Mushtaq Ali (France) Chapter 14
650 RELEASED NOV 07 Al Qahtani, Jabir (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 11
651 RELEASED NOV 07 Abu Kabir, Usama (Osama) (Jordan) Website Extras 11
652 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Qahtani, Abdullah (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 14
653 RELEASED JAN 09 Al Karim, Arkan (Iraq) Chapter 14, also see Even In Cheney’s Bleak World, The Al-Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low
654 RELEASED MAR 2010 (in Georgia), CLEARED (under Obama) Al Ghizzawi, Abdul Hamid (Libya) Chapters 14, 19, also see The Guantánamo Whistleblower, a Libyan shopkeeper, some Chinese Muslims and a desperate government, Horror at Guantánamo, Justice Department Pointlessly Gags Guantánamo Lawyer, More Dark Truths from Guantánamo, as Five Innocent Men Released
655 RELEASED FEB 06 Khudaidad (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
656 RELEASED NOV 03 Baqi, Abdul (Afghanistan) No information
657 RELEASED OCT 02 Mohammed, Haji Faiz (Afghanistan) Chapter 14 (he was 70 years old)
658 RELEASED MAR 03 Bismillah (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
659 RELEASED DEC 07 Sameur, Abdulnour (Abdennour) (UK-Algeria) Chapters 7, 8, also see Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, Guantánamo Britons To Be Released: A Mixed Result
660 RELEASED JUN 07 Lagha, Lotfi Bin Swei (Lofti Lagha) (Tunisia) Chapter 7, also see “We would rather be back in Guantánamo”, “I’m innocent,” says Guantánamo detainee Lotfi Lagha, sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in Tunisia
661 RELEASED JAN 05 Habib, Mamdouh (Australia) Chapters 16, 19, also see Former Guantánamo detainees speak, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
662 RELEASED NOV 07 Sulayman, Ahmed (Jordan) Chapter 12
663 RELEASED JUL 03 El-Weleli, Reda Fadel (Egypt) Arbitrarily imprisoned for several years on his return to Egypt
664 RELEASED MAY 06 Al Uwaydah, Rashid (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 9
665 RELEASED MAR 04 Eideov, Sadee (Tajikistan) No information
666 RELEASED NOV 03 Hezbullah (Afghanistan) No information
667 RELEASED JUL 03 Sarwar, Kari Mohammed (Afghanistan) No information
668 RELEASED MAR 04 Andarr, Abdul Al Hameed (Afghanistan) No information
669 RELEASED JUN 09 Zuhair, Ahmed Zaid Salim (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 20, also see Guantánamo’s Long-Term Hunger Striker Should Be Sent Home
670 RELEASED NOV 07 Hekmat, Abdullah (Afghanistan) Website Extras 11
671 RELEASED MAR 03 Abassin, Said (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
672 RELEASED NOV 06 (in Albania) Asam, Zakirjan (Russia) Chapter 14
673 RELEASED MAR 03 Khan, Alif (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
674 RELEASED FEB 04 Ishmuradov, Timur (Russia) Chapters 14, 18
675 CLEARED (under Bush) Kasimbekov, Kamalludin (Uzbekistan) Website Extras 11
676 RELEASED AUG 05 Anwarkurd, Mohammed (Iran) Website Extras 11
677 RELEASED NOV 03 Wazir, Mohammed (Afghanistan) Chapter 14
678 RELEASED JUN 07 Mahdi, Fawaz (Yemen) Chapter 14
Captured in house raids in Pakistan or randomly seized (Mar-Jul 02)
679 RELEASED DEC 09 Tahir, Mohammed (Tahar, Taher) (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?
680 Hassan, Emad (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies
681 WON HABEAS PETITION (May 2010), CLEARED (under Bush and Obama) Hassen, Mohammed (Mohammed Hassan Odaini) (Yemen) Chapter 13, mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Why Obama Must Continue Releasing Yemenis From Guantánamo, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?, Obama Thinks About Releasing Innocent Yemenis from Guantánamo, Obama’s Moral Bankruptcy Regarding Torture
682 Al Sharbi, Ghassan (Saudi Arabia) Chapters 13, 19, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped, reinstated), also see Doing The Right Thing, Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16
683 RELEASED DEC 09 Ahmed, Fayad Yahya (Al Rami) (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?
684 Tahamuttan, Mohammed (Palestine) Website Extras 10
685 Ali, Abdelrazak (Abdullah Azak) (Algeria) Website Extras 10
686 Hakim, Abdel (Yemen) Chapter 13
687 RELEASED JUN 09 Al Noofayaee, Abdul Aziz (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?
688 Ahmed, Fahmi (Yemen) Chapter 13, mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies
689 Salam, Mohamed (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies
690 Qader, Ahmed Abdul (Yemen) Chapter 13, mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16
691 Al Zarnuki, Mohammed (Yemen) Chapter 13
692 RELEASED SEP 09, WON HABEAS PETITION (May 09) Ahmed, Alla Ali Bin Ali (Yemen) Chapter 13, also see Judge Condemns “Mosaic” Of Guantánamo Intelligence, And Unreliable Witnesses, Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Guantánamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame, 75 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 31 Could Leave Today, Why Obama Must Continue Releasing Yemenis From Guantánamo, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?, Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo?
693 DIED IN GUANTANAMO JUN 06 Al Salami, Ali Abdullah Ahmed (Salah Ahmed al-Salami) (Yemen) Chapters 13, 19, also see Second Anniversary of Triple Suicide at Guantánamo, Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?, Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, Guantánamo: A Prison Built On Lies, Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides”, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Three): Deaths at the Prison, Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?, Murders at Guantánamo: The Cover-Up Continues, UN Secret Detention Report (Part One): The CIA’s “High-Value Detainee” Program and Secret Prisons
694 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Sep 09), LOST APPEAL (Jun 2010 – article to follow) Barhoumi, Sufyian (Algeria) Chapter 13, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped, reinstated), mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16
695 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Apr 2010) Abu Bakr, Omar (Omar Mohammed Khalifh) (Libya) Chapter 12, Judge Denies Habeas Petition of an Ill and Abused Libyan in Guantánamo
696 Al Qahtani, Jabran (Saudi Arabia) Chapter 13, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped, reinstated), mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16
697-698 NO ISN (probably Omar Ghramesh and an unnamed teenager, captured with Abu Zubaydah and rendered to Syria; also see 180, 212, 241, 544, 548 and 583, above)
699 RELEASED SEP 04 Farhad, Din Mohammed (Afghanistan) Website Extras 9
700 RELEASED MAR 04 Babikir, Mohammed Al Ghazali (Sudan) Chapter 13
701 RELEASED FEB 06 Kiyemba, Jamal (UK-Uganda) Chapters 13, 14
702 WON HABEAS PETITION (May 2010) Mingazov, Ravil (Russia) Chapter 13, also see Guantánamo Transcripts: Ghost Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, and “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession, Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, Bringing Guantánamo To New York, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web, Why is a Yemeni Student in Guantánamo, Cleared on Three Occasions, Still Imprisoned?
703 RELEASED NOV 08 Ahmed, Labed (Algeria) Chapter 13, also see Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web
704 RELEASED NOV 08 Abdallah, Mohammed Hussein (Somalia) Chapter 13
705 RELEASED JUL 08 Hamlili, Mustafa (Algeria) Chapter 13
706 RELEASED SEP 07 Al Amin, Mohammed (Mauritania) Chapters 13, 14
707 Muhammed, Noor Uthman (Sudan) Chapter 13, MILITARY COMMISSION (charges dropped, reinstated), mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, also see MILITARY COMMISSION (under Obama)
708 Al Bakush, Ismael (Libya) Website Extras 10
709 RELEASED FEB 2010 (in Albania), CLEARED (under Bush) Al Qassim, Abdul Rauf (Libya) Website Extras 10, Return to torture: cleared Guantánamo detainee Abdul Rauf al-Qassim fears return to Libya
710 RELEASED DEC 07 Adem, Salim Muhood (Amir, bin Amir) (Sudan) Chapter 13, also see Sudanese ex-Guantánamo detainees demand release of fellow citizens and compensation for “mental and physical torture”
711 RELEASED NOV 03 Hamid, Hassan (Jordan) Chapter 13
712 RELEASED JUL 05 Gadallah, Hammad (Sudan) Chapter 13
713 Al Zahrani, Mohammed (Saudi Arabia) Website Extras 10
714 RELEASED MAR 04 Ahmad, Rashid (Sudan) Chapter 13
715 RELEASED MAR 04 Mustafa, Hussain (Jordan) Chapters 13, 14
716 RELEASED NOV 06 (in Albania) Salim, Ala (Egypt) Chapters 13, 19
717 LOST HABEAS PETITION (Apr 09), CLEARED (under Bush) Bin Hadiddi, Abdulhadi (Hedi Hammamy) (Tunisia) Website Extras 10, Farce at Guantánamo, as cleared prisoner’s habeas petition is denied, Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Two): Obama’s Shame
718 RELEASED NOV 06 (in Albania) Boucetta, Fethi (Algeria) Chapter 13
719 RELEASED OCT 08 Al Hassan, Mustafa (Sudan) Website Extras 10
720 RELEASED MAY 08 Al Amir, Amir Yacoub (Yacoub Mahmoud) (Sudan) Website Extras 10
721 RELEASED JUN 07 Omar, Abdullah Bin (Tunisia) Website Extras 10, “We would rather be back in Guantánamo”, Out of Guantánamo and into the fire
722 Diyab, Jihad (Syria) Website Extras 10
723-725 NO ISN
726 RELEASED MAR 04 Al Henali, Menhal (Syria) Chapter 13
727 RELEASED DEC 07 Deghayes, Omar (UK-Libya) Chapters 13, 14, 15, also see The testimony of Guantánamo detainee Omar Deghayes, Deals with dictators undermined by British request for return of five British detainees, British Residents in Guantánamo: the backlash begins, Guantánamo Britons To Be Released: A Mixed Result, The Guantánamo Britons and Spain’s dubious extradition request, Spanish drop “inhuman” extradition request for Guantánamo Britons, WORLD EXCLUSIVE: New Revelations About The Torture Of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan, Former prisoners launch the Guantánamo Justice Centre in London, NEW FILM: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo, Photos from the launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, UK Judge Approves Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Case, Video: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Plus Clips From “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Q&A with Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash at the Launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, The Guardian interviews Omar Deghayes: “The spirit is what makes us who we are”, White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”: Report on screenings in Bradford and Norwich, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”: 500 turn up for Kent screening, plus report on SOAS and UCL events, Video: Omar Deghayes Discusses British Complicity in Torture in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Guantánamo, A warm Scottish welcome for “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, An interview with Omar Deghayes, following Kent screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, Video: Q&A session at Glasgow screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” with Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Aamer Anwar, UK Appeals Court Rules Out Government’s Use of Secret Evidence in Guantánamo Damages Claim, House Kills Plan to Close Guantánamo, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part One): Omar’s Story, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Two): Terry’s Story, Omar Deghayes and Terry Holdbrooks Discuss Guantánamo (Part Three): Deaths at the Prison, UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record
728 Nassir, Jamil (Yemen) Chapter 13, mentioned in Lost in Guantánamo: The Faisalabad 16, Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web
729 RELEASED MAR 04 Umarov, Muhibullo (Tajikistan) Chapter 13
730 RELEASED MAR 05 Fauzee, Ibrahim (Maldives) Chapter 13 (footnote)
731 RELEASED MAR 04 Mazharuddin (Tajikistan) Chapter 13
732 RELEASED MAR 04 Shirinov, Abdughaffor (Tajikistan) Chapter 13
