February 21, 2006
The Report on Guantanamo Detainees: A Profile of 517 Detainees
Through Analysis of Department of Defense Data
Report Confirms That Vast Majority of Prisoners Posed No Threat to the United States and Were Turned Over to U.S. Military for Bounty
The report found that "55 percent of the 517 detainees had no hostile act listed as the basis for detention" and a mere 5 percent were captured by U.S. forces, with the rest not picked up on the battlefield in Afghanistan but in Pakistan and handed to the U.S. by warlords and others for large bounties. According the report's careful analysis of the Defense Department records, 92% of the prisoners in Guantánamo were not characterized as Al Qaeda fighters.
description with link to Seton Hall Report (pdf)
by Professor Mark Denbeaux of Seton Hall Law School and attorney Joshua Denbeaux. | Center for Constitutional Rights
~More poetry than irrefutable fact (but are poems often wrong?)
