List of Iranian detainees at Guantanamo Bay

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The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding 3 Iranian captives in Guantanamo. [1]

A total of 779 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new captives, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of July 2012, the camp population stands at approximately 168.

Iranian captives acknowledged by the DoD

isn namearrival
date [2] 		departure
date [3] 		notes
555 Abdul Majid Muhammed 2002-05-052006-10-11
  • The only Christian in Guantanamo.
  • Accused of being a "watchman" for the Taliban.
  • Describes the militiamen who captured him being enormously excited that they had captured a foreigner who could be sold for a bounty.
  • Reports being a deserter, and a serious drug addict, and a street-level drug dealer.
  • Following the ouster of the Taliban his dealer sent him to Afghanistan, rather than his regular couriers, in return for paying off his substantial drug debt.
  • Reports his drug dealer had told him he had started to murder his children because he had not paid off his drug debt.
623Bakhtiar Bameri2002-06-182004-03-31
676Mohamed Anwar Kurd2002-06-122005-08-19

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References

  1. ↑ OARDEC (May 15, 2006). "List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Retrieved September 29, 2007.
  2. ↑ "Measurements of Heights and Weights of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (ordered and consolidated version)" (PDF). Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, from DoD data. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010.
  3. ↑ OARDEC (October 9, 2008). "Consolidate chronological listing of GTMO detainees released, transferred or deceased" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 20, 2008. Retrieved December 28, 2008.
  4. 1 2 OARDEC. "Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Kurd, Mohamed Anwar" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. p. 38. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 10, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
  1. ↑ Countries of Citizenship of Guantanamo detainees from the New York Times
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