User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/324 Arabic names

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Many Guantanamo captives had their continued extrajudicial detention justified because their name, "name variant", or "known alias" was alleged to be found on a suspicious list.

Many captives faced multiple allegations, very similar to one another, that their names were found on suspicious lists. Department of Defense spokesmen have not clarified whether each of these allegations was a single unique reference to multiple very similar lists, or whether these allegations were multiple references to a single unique list.

Multiple lists
Some of the references to captives being named on lists were specific enough to identify the lists. Others weren't.

List of 324 Arabic names
Dozens of captives faced the allegation that their name, "name variant", or "known alias", was found on a list of "324 Arabic names".

Captured mujahideen
Some captives faced the allegation that their name, or "known alias", was found on a list, captured during a raid, that American counter-terrorism analysts identified as a "list of captured mujahideen".

The detainee's name was found on a 20-gigabyte hard drive associated with al Qaida. The file provides a listing of names of captured Mujahidin.

Named on a web-site
The detainee's name was found on a document that was printed from an internet site on 20 July 2002. The internet document contains information regarding the capture of Taliban and al Qaida fighters who had crossed the border after the 11 September 2001 retaliation.

Other lists
Other captives faced allegations that they were listed on lists generated internally within the American counter-terrorism establishment. For instance, approximately thirty Arabs fleeing the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan were captured together on December 15 2001. These Arab captives were named the "Dirty thirty", and were suspected of containing Osama bin Laden bodyguards and other al Qaida insiders.