Pentagon Releases Names Of Guantanamo’s 48 Indefinite Detainees

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The Defense Department released to the Miami Herald Monday the names of the 48 Guantanamo detainees who have been labeled indefenite detainees, or men deemed too dangerous to be transferred, but ineligible to be tried in court.

The list of four dozen men includes 26 Yemenis, 12 Afghans, 3 Saudis, 2 Kuwaitis, 2 Libyans, a Kenyan, a Moroccan and a Somali. In all, there are 166 captives at the detention center.

The Herald, along with assistance from the Yale Law School student clinic, filed suit in federal court in Washington in March for the list under the Freedom of Information Act. The Pentagon also released the names Monday to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees

The names, according to the Herald, had been a guarded secret since a multi-agency task force went through the files of the Guantanamo detainees in 2009 to try fulfill President Barack Obama’s executive order to shutter the controversial detention center. The task force announced in January 2010 that it had classified 48 unnamed persons held at Guantanamo as indefinite detainees. Two of these 48 men have since died, one by suicide and the other from a heart attack.

The captives cannot be put on trial for a variety of reasons, including a lack of evidence and tainted evidence.

Read the full list of names here.

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