WikiLeaks Releases Guantanamo Prisoner Files

HungryHobo writes with news that WikiLeaks has started to release a collection of 779 files involving the detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. "The details for every detainee will be released daily over the coming month. ... In thousands of pages of documents dating from 2002 to 2008 and never seen before by members of the public or the media, the cases of the majority of the prisoners held at Guantánamo — 758 out of 779 in total — are described in detail in memoranda from JTF-GTMO, the Joint Task Force at Guantánamo Bay, to US Southern Command in Miami, Florida. These memoranda, which contain JTF-GTMO's recommendations about whether the prisoners in question should continue to be held, or should be released (transferred to their home governments, or to other governments) contain a wealth of important and previously undisclosed information, including health assessments, for example, and, in the cases of the majority of the 171 prisoners who are still held, photos (mostly for the first time ever)." Reader rrayst notes that according to one such document, if you use a Casio F-91W wristwatch, you might be a member of al-Qaida.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Oh boy, here we go. It'll definitely be interesting how the media tries to spin this in a negative light.

Re:Yeah, this is just baffling.

[Mashiki]

Everyone hates it? I sure don't. I'm Canadian, and I see a need for it, and good reasons to have it.(then again our intelligence and security services have done thing that would make american eyes pop out of their heads to 'preserve national security') Whether or not you want to believe that the world is pixie dust, and cars can be fueled by unicorn shit doesn't matter. There's several problems of course with your post. The countries that some of these guys come from, don't want them. Not at all. They don't want the legal headaches, or simply don't care. Countries where they are shipped back, or released to. These guys as quickly as they can high tail it and head right back to being non-uniformed combatants.

Then again, if we were playing by the rules. They'd be dead on the battle field, or summarily executed when caught. We already go above the standards by keeping them alive. The only reason why it's worth capturing them, is to glean information even if it's a grain of gold in a pile of sand.