User:Geo Swan/working/Official DoD release of Guantanamo detainees identities

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The United States Department of Defense tried to keep secret the identities of those held in its Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.

History
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 * winter/spring 2005 ||
 * The Department of Defense released a series of portable document format files over the winter and spring of 2005. Those files contain 507 of the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for the Combatant Status Review Tribunals held from August 2004 through January 2005.
 * It appears that there should have been a sixth file, that was not released.
 * All but one of these files had the captive's name, and ID number redacted. However, 169 of the memos in the file released in March 2005 bear hand-written numbers in the upper right hand corner.  And those hand-written numbers, when compared with the allegations that were read aloud, and recorded in the transcripts that were released a year later, show that these hand-written numbers are the ID numbers.
 * March 3, 2006 ||
 * Legal appeals and counter-appeals dragged out the process, but, eventually, the DoD exhausted all it legal routes of appeal, and US District Court Justice Jed Rakoff's court order imposed a deadline of 6pm March 3, 2006.
 * According to AP's the DoD missed this deadline by 20 minutes, even with its first release. According to AP a Pentagon lawyer delivered a CD to the Associated Press.  Then, minutes later, an officer from the DoD returned to seize the original CD. It was replaced over an hour later with one that did not contain the letters from relatives of some of the prisoners that were unintentionally put on the previous version.
 * April 20, 2006 ||
 * The DoD releases a 16 page portable document format file that contains 558 entries, one for each detainee whose case was considered by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
 * Each of those entries contains:
 * 1) The detainee's Guantanamo detainee ID number - their ISN.
 * 2) The name the detainee is officially known by.  Approximately a dozen names are too long and are truncated.
 * 3) The detainee's nationality.
 * Like the earlier documents, this document is not in a machine-readable form.
 * It became possible to correlate each transcript to the detainee it was about, by their name.
 * Close to half of the official names used in the factors memos don't match the official names used in the April 20th list, even though less than a year has passed since the memos were written.
 * May 15, 2006 ||
 * The DoD releases a 20 page portable document format file that contains 759 entries.
 * The DoD says that this list names all the detainees who had ever been held in Guantanamo -- in military custody.
 * Even though less than four weeks have passed since the earlier list was released approximately 10-20 percent of the detainee's names were spelled inconsistently on the two lists.
 * Dozens of Guantanamo detainees, whose release has been described in the press are not listed on the official lists.
 * Most notably, none of the most notorious released detainees, who "returned to the battlefield", Abdullah Mehsud, Maulvi Abdul Ghaffour, and Mullah Shahzada, are on the official list of detainees who had been held in military custody.
 * Even though less than four weeks have passed since the earlier list was released approximately 10-20 percent of the detainee's names were spelled inconsistently on the two lists.
 * Dozens of Guantanamo detainees, whose release has been described in the press are not listed on the official lists.
 * Most notably, none of the most notorious released detainees, who "returned to the battlefield", Abdullah Mehsud, Maulvi Abdul Ghaffour, and Mullah Shahzada, are on the official list of detainees who had been held in military custody.