Guatanamo names released
The Pentagon released under court order on Friday documents it said listed the names and nationalities of about 300 of the nearly 500 foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, but withheld data on the rest. While incomplete, the new list was the most thorough made public to date.
The Pentagon released at 6:40 p.m. (2340 GMT) on a Friday night more than 5,000 pages of documents relating to hearings conducted at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by military panels reviewing the cases of detainees.
Bryan Whitman, a senior Pentagon spokesman, said the documents contained the names and nationalities of about 317 detainees.
Whitman said the Pentagon would not release this data on all 490 detainees because of concern about “harm to the detainees.”
“There is a concern that there could be potential harm to the detainees if personal information such as their name was a matter of public record,” he said.
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