Mohammed Mani Ahmad al-Qahtani is a Saudi citizen who was detained as an al-Qaeda operative for 20 years in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba. Qahtani allegedly tried to enter the United States to take part in the September 11 attacks as the 20th hijacker and was due to be onboard United Airlines Flight 93 along with the four other hijackers. He was refused entry due to suspicions that he was trying to illegally immigrate. He was later captured in Afghanistan in the Battle of Tora Bora in December 2001.
The 2005 Quran desecration controversy began when Newsweek's April 30,2005,issue contained a report asserting that United States prison guards or interrogators had deliberately damaged a copy of the Quran. A week later,The New Yorker reported the words of Pakistani politician Imran Khan:"This is what the U.S. is doing—desecrating the Quran." This incident caused violent unrest in some parts of the Muslim world.
Salim Ahmed Salim Hamdan is a Yemeni man,captured during the invasion of Afghanistan,declared by the United States government to be an illegal enemy combatant and held as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 to November 2008. He admits to being Osama bin Laden's personal driver and said he needed the money.
Dorsey &Whitney LLP is a law firm based in the United States with approximately 580 attorneys,located between 21 offices in the United States,Canada,Europe,and Asia as of 2023. The firm's headquarters is in Minneapolis,Minnesota,where it was founded. As of 2023,Dorsey is led by managing partner William R. Stoeri. The firm's lawyers have included several prominent public figures,including former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale.
Debevoise &Plimpton LLP is an international law firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1931 by Eli Whitney Debevoise and William Stevenson,the firm was originally named “Debevoise,Plimpton &McLean”. Debevoise specializes in private equity,financial services transactions,private funds,and international arbitration. In 2021,the firm assisted the Democratic Party in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
Abdul Zahir is a citizen of Afghanistan,who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps,in Cuba. He was the tenth captive,and the first Afghan,to face charges before the first Presidentially authorized Guantanamo military commissions. After the US Supreme Court ruled that the President lacked the constitutional authority to set up military commissions,the United States Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006. He was not charged under that system.
Alberto JoséMora is a former General Counsel of the Navy. He led an effort within the Defense Department to oppose the legal theories of John Yoo and to try to end the use of torture at Guantanamo Bay.
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB),also called GTMO on the coast of Guantánamo Bay,Cuba. It was established in January 2002 by U.S. President George W. Bush to hold terrorism suspects and "illegal enemy combatants" during the Global War on Terrorism following the attacks of September 11,2001. As of August 2024,at least 780 persons from 48 countries have been detained at the camp since its creation,of whom 740 had been transferred elsewhere,9 died in custody,and 30 remain;only 16 detainees have ever been charged by the U.S. with criminal offenses.
Charles D. Swift is an American attorney and former career Navy officer,who retired in 2007 as a Lieutenant Commander in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He is most noted for having served as defense counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamdan,a detainee from Yemen who was the first to be charged at Guantanamo Bay;Swift took his case to the US Supreme Court. In 2005 and June 2006,the National Law Journal recognized Swift as one of the top lawyers nationally because of his work on behalf of justice for the detainees.
Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari is a Kuwaiti citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba,from 2002 to 2016. He has never been charged with war crimes.
Muhammad Ali Abdallah Muhammad Bwazir is a citizen of Yemen,once held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps,in Cuba. Bwazir's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 440. American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1980,in Hawra',Yemen.
Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps,in Cuba from August 2002 to May 2018;in May 2018,he was transferred to Saudi Arabia's custody. He was the only detainee held at Guantanamo released during President Donald Trump's administration.
The United States Department of Defense (DOD) had stopped reporting Guantanamo suicide attempts in 2002. In mid-2002 the DoD changed the way they classified suicide attempts,and enumerated them under other acts of "self-injurious behavior".
Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada is a citizen of Yemen,who was formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps,in Cuba. His detainee ID number is 178. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimated that Baada was born in 1978 in Shebwa,Yemen.
William James "Jim" Haynes II is an American lawyer and was General Counsel of the Department of Defense during much of 43rd President George W. Bush's administration and his war on terror. Haynes resigned as general counsel effective March 2008.
Semiannually,the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) publishes an unclassified "Summary of the Reengagement of Detainees Formerly Held at Guantanamo Bay,Cuba". According to ODNI's most recent Reengagement Report,since 2009,when current rules and processes governing transfer of detainees out of Guantanamo were put in place,ODNI assess that 5.1% of detainees –10 men total,2 of whom are deceased –are more likely than not to have reengaged in terrorist activities.
The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs (DASD-DA) is a political appointment created by United States President George W. Bush. The appointee has responsibility for captives apprehended during the "war on terror". The New York Times described one appointee as:"a primary adviser to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on detainee matters and his point man for dealing with foreign governments and international organizations on the issue."
Phillip Eugene Carter is an American lawyer,writer,and former officer in the United States Army. Carter was a founding member of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America,and he also served as a principal of the Truman National Security Project. He was senior fellow and counsel at the Center for a New American Security,and director of the CNAS research program on the Military,Veterans &Society. Beginning September 2018,he served as the Director of the Personnel &Resources Program at the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center in Washington,D.C. Carter now works as corporate counsel for Google,supporting the company's public sector business,and teaches as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.
Jay Alan Liotta is an American senior official in the Department of Defense,in its Office of Detainee Policy.
