List of Syrian detainees at Guantanamo Bay

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The United States Department of Defense was holding a total of eleven Syrian detainees in Guantanamo. [1] A total of 778 suspects have been held 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.

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Syrian detainees at Guantanamo

isn namearrival
date
departure
date
notes
307 Abd Al Nasir Mohammed Abd Al Qadir Khantumani 2002-02-112010-07-20
312 Muhammed Khan Tumani 2002-02-112009-08-28
317 Moammar Badawi Dokhan 2002-02-122009-08-28
326 Ahmed Adnan Ahjam 2002-06-142014-12-07
327 Ali Husein Muhammad Shaaban 2002-06-142014-12-07
329 Abd Al Hadi Omar Mahmoud Faraj 2002-06-082014-12-07
330 Maasoum Abdah Mouhammad 2002-06-102010-05-04
489 Abd Al Rahim Abdul Rassak Janko 2002-05-01
537 Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali 2010-09-16
  • Released to Germany on September 16, 2010. [6]
722 Jihad Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab aka Abu Wa'el Dhiab [7] 2002-08-052014-12-07
726 Menhal Al Henali 2002-08-052004-03-31
  • Fethi Boucetta was one of the 38 captives determined not to have been enemy combatants after all.

Wives

In 2008, Human Rights Watch reported: [8]

On July 31, State Security, one of Syria's numerous security agencies, seized Yusra al-Husayn at her house and took her into detention. She is the wife of Jihad Diab, a detainee at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay.

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