Lee Scott Wolosky is an American diplomat and attorney who served under four U.S. presidents in legal and national security positions,most recently as Special Counsel to President Joe Biden. He is currently co-chair of the Litigation Department and a member of the Management Committee at Jenner &Block LLP
Abu Faraj al-Libi is an assumed name or nom de guerre of a Libyan alleged to be a senior member of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization. His real name is Mustafa Faraj Muhammad Muhammad Masud al-Jadid al-Uzaybi. He was arrested by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) on May 2,2005,in Mardan. Finding al-Libi was a joint effort of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Special Activities Division and Pakistan's Special Forces.
The Federal Correctional Institution,Thomson,formerly United States Penitentiary,Thomson and Thomson Correctional Center,is a low-security federal prison located in Thomson,Illinois. It has an area of about 146 acres (59 ha) and comprises 15 buildings. The facility is enclosed by a 15-foot (4.6 m),7000 volt electric fence surrounded by an additional 12-foot (3.7 m) exterior fence covered with razor wire. Thomson has eight cellhouses with a rated capacity of 2,100 beds—1,900 high-security SMU beds and 200 minimum-security beds at the onsite camp—and according to BOP officials,the potential to use some of its high-security rated capacity to house up to 400 ADX inmates. From its completion in 2001 to 2006,it remained empty. By 2009,only the minimum-security section housed prisoners.
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.
Mullah Mohammad Fazl is a member of the Taliban militant group and the First Deputy Defense Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,having assumed the role on 7 September 2021. He also served in the position during the previous Taliban government (1996–2001).
Abdul Haq Wasiq is the Director of Intelligence of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since September 7,2021. He was previously the Deputy Minister of Intelligence in the former Taliban government (1996–2001). He was held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps,in Cuba,from 2002 to 2014. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 4. American intelligence analysts estimate that he was born in 1971 in Ghazni Province,Afghanistan.
Clifford Sloan is an attorney and American diplomat who served as Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure at the United States Department of State. Sloan is currently a Dean's Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center and retired partner for Skadden,Arps,Slate,Meagher &Flom LLP and Affiliates. Previously,Sloan was the publisher of Slate magazine.
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.
Donald E. Booth is an American diplomat who is serving as the U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan. Between August 2013 and January 2017,he was the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan. Prior to his appointments as special envoy,Booth served as the Ambassador of the United States to Liberia,Zambia,and Ethiopia.
"Enhanced interrogation techniques" or "enhanced interrogation" was a program of systematic torture of detainees by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and various components of the U.S. Armed Forces at remote sites around the world—including Bagram,Guantanamo Bay,Abu Ghraib,and Bucharest—authorized by officials of the George W. Bush administration. Methods used included beating,binding in contorted stress positions,hooding,subjection to deafening noise,sleep disruption,sleep deprivation to the point of hallucination,deprivation of food,drink,and medical care for wounds,as well as waterboarding,walling,sexual humiliation,rape,sexual assault,subjection to extreme heat or extreme cold,and confinement in small coffin-like boxes. A Guantanamo inmate's drawings of some of these tortures,to which he himself was subjected,were published in The New York Times. Some of these techniques fall under the category known as "white room torture". Several detainees endured medically unnecessary "rectal rehydration","rectal fluid resuscitation",and "rectal feeding". In addition to brutalizing detainees,there were threats to their families such as threats to harm children,and threats to sexually abuse or to cut the throat of detainees' mothers.
The Parwan Detention Facility is Afghanistan's main military prison. Situated next to the Bagram Air Base in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan,the prison was built by the U.S. during the George W. Bush administration. The Parwan Detention Facility,which housed foreign and local combatants,was maintained by the Afghan National Army.
In the years after the September 11,2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City,Yemen became a key site for U.S. intelligence gathering and drone attacks on Al-Qaeda. According to the 2012 U.S. Global Leadership Report,18% of Yemenis approved of U.S. leadership,with 59% disapproving and 23% uncertain. According to a February 2015 report from the Congressional Research Service,U.S. officials considered Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula the Al-Qaeda affiliate "most likely to attempt transnational attacks against the United States."
Muhammed Murdi Issa Al Zahrani is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps,in Cuba from August 5,2002,until November 22,2014. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 713. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1969,in Taif,Saudi Arabia.
Standish Maximum Correctional Facility (SMF) was a Michigan Department of Corrections maximum security prison in Standish,Michigan. The men's prison was on the south side of M-61. It was once considered as a potential site for housing detainees to be relocated from the prison in Guantánamo Bay,Cuba. The facility was in operation for over 19 years. As of November 2023,the facility remains unused but still stands.
In late 2008,the Department of Defense published a list of the Guantanamo captives who died in custody,were freed,or were repatriated to the custody of another country. The list was drafted on October 8,2008,and was published on November 26,2008. Subsequently almost two hundred more captives have been released or transferred,and several more have died in custody.
The Periodic Review Boards administrate a US "administrative procedure" for recommending whether certain individuals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps,in Cuba are safe to release or transfer,or whether they should continue to be held without charge. The boards are authorized by and overseen by the Periodic Review Secretariat,which President Barack Obama set up with Executive Order 13567 on March 7,2011.
Paul Lewis is an American lawyer and diplomat. Lewis served as Marine JAG officer and chief counsel to House Armed Services Committee,before President Obama appointed him as Special Envoy for Guantanamo Bay facility closure.
Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi is a citizen of Yemen who was held in extrajudicial detention by the United States from December 2001 to June 22,2016. He was one of the first twenty captives transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention camps,in Cuba,on January 11,2002,and was held there until he was transferred to Montenegro,which granted him political asylum.
