List of Libyan detainees at Guantanamo Bay information
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding Libyan detainees in Guantanamo.[1] A total of 780 detainees have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Hundreds of detainees were released without charges.
Following the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush (2004) that detainees had the right under habeas corpus to challenge their detention before an impartial tribunal, transfers to Guantanamo decreased.
Nineteen "high value detainees" have been transferred by the CIA to Guantanamo since September 2006, as the administration restricted their access to outside counsel and courts under the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This provision of the act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush (2008), which said detainees had the right of access to federal courts for habeas corpus challenges. As of February 24, 2010, the camp population stood at 188.[2]
On February 24, 2010, Albania accepted the transfer of three former detainees, a Libyan, an Egyptian, and a Tunisian.[2]
ISN
Name
Arrival date
Departure date
Notes
189
Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby
2002-05-05
2016-04-04
Transferred to Senegal on 2016-04-04[3]
194
Mohammed Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri[4]
Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
Muhammad Abd Allah Manur Safrani Al Futri[13]
Muhammad Abdallah Mansur Al Rimi[1]
Mohammed Rimi[14]
2002-01-16
2006-12-15
Named differently on the official lists of names.[1][5]
Captured wearing a Casio F91W digital watch.[15]
Allegedly an employee of the Pakistani Islamic missionary group, Tablighi Jamaat.[16]
Released on December 18, 2006.[17]
263
Ashraf Salim Abd Al Salam Sultan
2002-02-09
557
Abu Sufian bin Qumu
2002-05-05
2007-09-28
Repatriated in the fall of 2007.[18] In 2011, he emerged as a rebel leader in the Libyan civil war against Muammar Gaddafi.[19] Reported to be involved in the terror attack on the US consulate that resulted in the death of US Ambassador Chris Stevens.[20]
654
Abdel Hamid al-Ghazzawi
2002-06-18
2010-03-23
His case was considered by two Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The first Tribunal in November 2004 determined he had not been an "enemy combatant" and there was no evidence of al-Qaeda involvement. A second Tribunal was convened 55 days later with new members, in Washington, at which neither the detainee nor his representative was present. Claiming new "secret" information, the tribunal in January 2005 found him to be an enemy combatant. His attorney reviewed the files in 2006 and found there was no new information, secret or otherwise, and described the ruling as a "kangaroo court."[21][22] No charges were ever filed against him.[23]
Transferred to Georgia on March 23, 2010.[23]
685
Abdelrazak Ali Abdelrahman
2002-06-18
695
Omar Khalifa Mohammed Abu Bakr
2002-08-05
2016-04-04
Released in Senegal.[3]
708
Ismael Ali Faraj Ali Bakush
2002-08-05
709
Abdul Rauf Omar Mohammed Abu Al Qusin
2002-08-05
2010-02-24
Transferred to Albania.[24]
727
Omar Deghayes
2002-08-05
2007-12-19
His lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, the legal director of Reprieve alleges that Deghayes was blinded by pepper spray used by guards inside the Guantanamo prison.[25]
Transferred to the United Kingdom.[26]
761
Ibrahim Mahdy Achmed Zeidan
2002-08-05
2007-11-02
Transferred to Jordan on November 2, 2007.[27]
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"Guantanamo four arrive in Europe". BBC News. 2010-02-24. Retrieved 2010-02-24. A Tunisian, Egyptian and Libyan were sent to Albania, while a Palestinian was sent to Spain. The Palestinian is the first of five inmates that Spain has agreed to take. Albania has taken eight detainees.
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OARDEC (29 September 2004). "Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal --" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. pp. 4–5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
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OARDEC (July 17, 2007). "Index for Combatant Status Review Board unclassified summaries of evidence" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 3, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
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OARDEC (September 4, 2007). "Index for testimony" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 3, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
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OARDEC (August 9, 2007). "Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 26, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
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OARDEC (July 17, 2007). "Transcripts and Certain Documents from Administrative Review Boards Round Two" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 26, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
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OARDEC (July 17, 2007). "Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 26, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
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OARDEC (August 10, 2007). "Index of Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees from ARB Round Two" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 27, 2008. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
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OARDEC (11 July 2005). "Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Futuri, Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. pp. 31–33. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
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OARDEC (18 April 2006). "Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Futri, Muhammad Abd Allah Manur Safrani" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. pp. 91–94. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
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"Exhibit B: List Of Enemy Combatant Detainees With Pending Habeas Corpus Petitions Who Have Been Released From United States Custody" (PDF). United States Department of Justice. April 17, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 27, 2009. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
^Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - September 29, 2004 - page 244
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Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 29-34
^6 Yemenis released from Guantanamo[permanent dead link], Seattle Post Intelligencer, December 18, 2006
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"Pentagon frees eight Guantanamo detainees: The U.S. Supreme Court opens a new term with a detainee-rights issue". The Spectator. 1 October 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-16.[permanent dead link]
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Holly Watt (April 26, 2011). "WikiLeaks: Guantanamo detainee is now Libyan rebel leader". Katni: The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
^"Al Qaeda, ex-Gitmo detainee involved in consulate attack, intelligence sources say". Fox News. 19 September 2012.
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H. Candace Gorman, "Secrets of the War Criminals", Huffington Post, 20 November 2006, accessed 26 February 2013
^Mark Denbeaux; Joshua Denbeaux; David Gratz; John Gregorek; Matthew Darby; Shana Edwards; Shane Hartman; Daniel Mann; Megan Sassaman; Helen Skinner. "No-hearing hearings" (PDF). Seton Hall University School of Law. p. 34. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 2, 2008. Retrieved April 2, 2007.
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Margot Williams (2008-11-03). "Guantanamo Docket: Omar Amer Deghayes". New York Times. Retrieved 2013-06-20.
^"Ibrahim Mahdi Achmed Zeidan - The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times. 18 May 2021.
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