User:Geo Swan/Taliban fighter

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Summary of Evidence memos prepared by the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants justified the continued detention of over one hundred Guantanamo captives based on allegations that they were Taliban fighters.

Academic studies
Scholars who have studied the Guantanamo documents the Department of Defense has made public have noted that those documents don't explicity define terms like "Taliban member", "Taliban associate", "Taliban fighter", "al Qaeda member", "al Qaeda associate", or "al Qaeda fighter". Scholars at Seton Hall University, the United States Military Academy at West Point, and at the Brookings Institute have published studies of the documents, and have attempted to analyze what distinguished captives who described using the different terms.

In a paper entitled: "The Current Detainee Population of Guantánamo: An Empirical Study" Benjamin Wittes and Zaathira Wyne reported that the memos described 14 of the captives still present in Guantanamo in December 2008 had been described either as "Taliban fighters" or "Taliban operatives". They concluded that five of those captives offered testimony that justified calling them "fighters".