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Pentagon reveals Guantanamo names
4/03/06,
Some inmates have been at the detention camp since 2002
The US defence department has released the names and nationalities of some of the inmates detained at its Guantanamo Bay
prison in Cuba.
However, the names do not appear as a simple list - they are included within 6,000 pages of documents posted on the
Pentagon's website.
They are transcripts of tribunals in which the 500 detainees were screened and their combat status assessed.
The transcripts have been released before, but with the names blacked out.
SOME OF THE NAMED DETAINEES
Feroz Ali Abassi, British - submitted written complaints about military police
Abdul Gappher, Uighur from western China - accused of seeking to join Uzbek Islamist group but says he was
training to fight the Chinese
Mohammed Sharif, Afghan - accused of serving as a Taleban guard but said he was forced to work for them
Abdullah Mohammed al-Hamiri, Yemeni - accused of association with al-Qaeda
Zahir Shah, Afghan - accused of being member of radical group Hizb-i-Islamia
Mahbub Rahman, Afghan - accused of spying on US forces
Naibullah Darwaish, Afghan - accused of being Taleban-appointed police chief of Zabul province
Testimony excerpts
Veil of secrecy lifted
The files have been released as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Associated Press.
It is the first time most of the names have been made public.
Human rights groups are saying this is a significant blow against US government secrecy.
Activists say the new information will help in piecing together the personal histories of the detainees and in judging
how many of them really pose a threat to the United States as the US military insists they do.
'Ghost' detainees
Detainees were screened at the Combatant Status Review Tribunals with a view to categorising them as "enemy combatants".
First they took my comfort items away from me. You know, my blanket, my towel, my long pants, then my shoes -
I was put in isolation for 10 days
Fawzi al-Odah
Guantanamo detainee
Detainee tells of 'torture'
Full transcript of interview
The BBC's Pentagon correspondent, Adam Brookes, says it will take days, or even weeks, for the documents to be
read and analysed, but soon much more will be learned not only about who the detainees are, but also the
circumstances of their capture and detention.
However, our correspondent says that only inmates who underwent Combatant Status Review Tribunals have been named.
It is quite possible that there are other prisoners, known as "ghost" detainees, in Guantanamo, he adds.
Force feeding
In a separate development, a Kuwaiti man being held at Guantanamo Bay gave a rare interview to the BBC in which he
described the force-feeding of hunger strikers at the camp, something which he says amounts to torture.
Answering the questions from the BBC's Today Programme through his lawyer, Fawzi al-Odah said hunger strikers were
strapped to a chair and force-fed through a tube three times a day.
Mr Odah, who has been held at the base since 2002, was one of 84 inmates at Guantanamo who went on hunger strike in
December. Just four are still refusing food.
He told how detainees were given "formulas" to force them to empty their bowels and were strapped to a metal chair
three times a day, where a tube was inserted to administer food.
"One guy, a Saudi, told me that he had once been tortured in Saudi Arabia and that this metal chair treatment was
worse than any torture he had ever endured or could imagine," Mr Odah said.
The UN Human Rights Commission said recently that it regarded force-feeding at Guantanamo as a form of torture,
a charge the US firmly has repeatedly denied
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