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The captives the United States holds in extrajudicial detention, in its Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, have been described b the government as having been captured on the battlefield.[1][2][3][4][5]
Details about the circumstances of the captures
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At first the Bush administration policy was to keep all the details of the circumstances of the capture, and the identities of most of the captives the United States had taken in it war on terror were considered national security secrets, and were kept classified.
But, in July 2004 the habeas corpus case Rasul v. Bush reached the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled that the Executive Branch had to provide the captives with an opportunity to hear and contest the allegations against them. They specified that the opportunity should be modeled after the Tribunals the military usually uses to distinguish between captives who were civilian refugees, and "lawful combatants", and combatants who had breached the criteria in Article four of the Third Geneva Convention, thus stripping themselves from the protections of "Prisoner of War" status.
The Department of Defense complied with a Freedom of Information Act request, and released the Summary of Evidence memos that listed the allegations against the captives. The names and ID numbers were redacted from these memoranda. But a team of legal scholars at Seton Hall University's Center for Policy and Research conducted a statistical analysis of the allegations against the captives. As of March 2007 the legal team has published five papers based on their analysis. One of their most notable and controversial conclusions is that the portion of the allegations section set aside for "hostile activity" was blank for 55% of the captives.
On March 3, 2006 the Department of Defense complied with a court order, and was forced to release the transcripts of the unclassified sessions of the captives who had participated in their Tribunals.
Lists of captives captured on the battlefield
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id | name | capture | notes |
Abdul Bagi | February 10, 2003 Lejay, Afghanistan |
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Omar Khadr | July 27, 2002 |
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id | name | capture | notes |
References
- ↑ David Halton (May 13, 2004). "The Road to Abu Ghraib". CBC. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/iraq/abughraib_halton.html. Retrieved 2007-03-31.
- ↑ Chris Floyd (July 2, 2004). "Beggar's Banquet". The Moscow Times. http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/07/02/120.html. Retrieved 2007-03-31.
- ↑ Stuart Taylor Jr. (February 7, 2007). "Falsehoods About Guantanamo". National Journal. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200602u/nj_taylor_2006-02-07. Retrieved 2007-03-31.
- ↑ Moazzam Begg (January 12, 2007). "There is no justification for this hellhole: There are fathers held in Guantanamo who have never seen their children". The Independent. http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2145101.ece. Retrieved 2007-03-31.
- ↑ Carol Rosenberg (March 9, 2007). "Military panels hear captives' side of story". Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/581/v-print/story/36587.html. Retrieved 2007-03-31.