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Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List


Andy Worthington, London-based journalist and author of "The Guantánamo Files"
(Pluto Press), has released the first definitive list of the 779 prisoners held
in the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The list, which is the result of three years’ research and writing about
Guantánamo, provides details of the 533 prisoners who have been released, and
includes, for the first time ever, accurate dates for their release. It also
provides details of the 241 prisoners who are still held, including the 59
prisoners who have been cleared for release. Although some stories are still
unknown, the stories of nearly 700 prisoners are referenced either by links to
Andy’s extensive archive of articles about Guantánamo, or to the chapters in
"The Guantánamo Files" where they can be found.

Links to the list:

Part 1 (ISNs 002 to 200):
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/guantanamo-the-definitive-prisoner-list-part-1/


Part 2 (ISNs 201 to 496):
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/guantanamo-the-definitive-prisoner-list-part-2/


Part 3 (ISNs 497 to 732):
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/guantanamo-the-definitive-prisoner-list-part-3/


Part 4 (ISNs 743 to 10030):
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/guantanamo-the-definitive-prisoner-list-part-4/


Andy Worthington says:

“It is my hope that this project will provide an invaluable research tool for
those seeking to understand how it came to pass that the government of the
United States turned its back on domestic and international law, establishing
torture as official US policy, and holding men without charge or trial neither
as prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions, nor as criminal
suspects to be put forward for trial in a federal court, but as ‘illegal
enemy combatants.’

“I also hope that it provides a compelling explanation of how that same
government, under the leadership of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald
Rumsfeld, established a prison in which the overwhelming majority of those held
-- at least 93 percent of the 779 men and boys imprisoned in total -- were
either completely innocent people, seized as a result of dubious intelligence
or sold for bounty payments, or Taliban foot soldiers, recruited to fight an
inter-Muslim civil war that began long before the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001, and that had nothing to do with al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden
or international terrorism.”

About the author

Andy Worthington studied English Language and Literature at New College,
Oxford. He writes regularly for the Guardian, the British human rights group
Cageprisoners and the Future of Freedom Foundation. He has also written for the
New York Times, Amnesty International, Index on Censorship, and FAIR (Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting), and his articles are published regularly on the
Huffington Post, the Raw Story, AlterNet, Antiwar.com. CounterPunch and other
websites. In 2008, he wrote the entry “Guantánamo Scandal” for the
Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia.

"The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal
Prison" is published by Pluto Press, and distributed in the US by Macmillan.
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/the-guantanamo-files/

Andy is also the author of two books on modern British social history.

Tel: +44 (0)20 8691 9316
Email: andy@andyworthington.co.uk
Web: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk

Andy is the author of "The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees
in America's Illegal Prison" (published by Pluto Press/University of Michigan
Press)
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/the-guantanamo-files/

To receive automatic feeds of Andy's articles on publication, visit:
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/feed/

Thanks to Media Workers Against the War
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