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Pentagon to release expanded list of Guantanamo detainees AFP \|\| May 17, 2006 The Pentagon has agreed to release an expanded list of about 750 "war on terror" detainees who have been held at a US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a spokesman said Monday. But the Pentagon spokesman would not say whether the latest list includes all detainees who have been held at the remote US naval base in the years since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. The new list includes about 200 prisoners whose names had not been previously released, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said. The Pentagon last month released the names and nationalities of 558 detainees whose status as enemy combatants was reviewed by special military panels called Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT). "Today we are releasing 750 names to include those that previously didn't go through a CSRT," said spokesman Bryan Whitman. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com He said those whose names were being released for the first time were either transferred or released before the CSRT process was put in place or before their review was completed. By refusing to say whether the list includes all past and current Guantanamo detainees, the spokesman left open the possibility that other, still unidentified detainees have been held at the prison. The latest list and the initial one in April came in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the Pentagon by the US news agency Associated Press. Whitman said the list would give prisoners' names, nationalities, internal security number, place of birth and birthdate. About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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Pentagon to release expanded list of Guantanamo detainees

AFP || May 17, 2006

The Pentagon has agreed to release an expanded list of about 750 "war on terror" detainees who have been held at a US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a spokesman said Monday.

But the Pentagon spokesman would not say whether the latest list includes all detainees who have been held at the remote US naval base in the years since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

The new list includes about 200 prisoners whose names had not been previously released, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.

The Pentagon last month released the names and nationalities of 558 detainees whose status as enemy combatants was reviewed by special military panels called Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT).

"Today we are releasing 750 names to include those that previously didn't go through a CSRT," said spokesman Bryan Whitman.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

He said those whose names were being released for the first time were either transferred or released before the CSRT process was put in place or before their review was completed.

By refusing to say whether the list includes all past and current Guantanamo detainees, the spokesman left open the possibility that other, still unidentified detainees have been held at the prison.

The latest list and the initial one in April came in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the Pentagon by the US news agency Associated Press.

Whitman said the list would give prisoners' names, nationalities, internal security number, place of birth and birthdate.

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