List of Libyan detainees at Guantanamo Bay
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The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding Libyan detainees in Guantanamo. A total of 780 detainees 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. Hundreds of detainees were released without charges.
Following the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush (2004) that detainees had the right under habeas corpus to challenge their detention before an impartial tribunal, transfers to Guantanamo decreased.
Nineteen "high value detainees" have been transferred by the CIA to Guantanamo since September 2006, as the administration restricted their access to outside counsel and courts under the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This provision of the act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush (2008), which said detainees had the right of access to federal courts for habeas corpus challenges. As of February 24, 2010, the camp population stood at 188.
{{cite news
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| date=2010-02-24
| access-date=2010-02-24
| quote=A Tunisian, Egyptian and Libyan were sent to Albania, while a Palestinian was sent to Spain. The Palestinian is the first of five inmates that Spain has agreed to take. Albania has taken eight detainees.
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On February 24, 2010, Albania accepted the transfer of three former detainees, a Libyan, an Egyptian, and a Tunisian.
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! ISN !! Name !! Arrival | ||||
| 189 | Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby | 2002-05-05 | 2016-04-04 | Transferred to Senegal on 2016-04-04 |
| 194 | * Mohammed Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri
{{Cite web |url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf#4 |title = Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- |date = 29 September 2004 |author = OARDEC |pages = 4–5 |publisher = United States Department of Defense |access-date = 2007-12-10 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071211094621/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000201-000299.pdf#4 |archive-date = 11 December 2007 |author-link = OARDEC }} {{Cite web |url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_unclassified_summaries.pdf |title = Index for Combatant Status Review Board unclassified summaries of evidence |author = OARDEC |publisher = United States Department of Defense |date = July 17, 2007 |access-date = 2007-09-29 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071203004259/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_unclassified_summaries.pdf |archive-date = December 3, 2007 |author-link = OARDEC {{Cite web |url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_detainees_testimony.pdf |title = Index for testimony |author = OARDEC |publisher = United States Department of Defense |date = September 4, 2007 |access-date = 2007-09-29 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071203004301/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_CSRT_detainees_testimony.pdf |archive-date = December 3, 2007 |author-link = OARDEC {{Cite web |url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_1_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf |title = Index to Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round One |author = OARDEC |publisher = United States Department of Defense |date = August 9, 2007 |access-date = 2007-09-29 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071026130459/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_1_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf |archive-date = October 26, 2007 |author-link = OARDEC {{Cite web |url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_Transcripts_ARB2.pdf |title = Transcripts and Certain Documents from Administrative Review Boards Round Two |author = OARDEC |publisher = United States Department of Defense |date = July 17, 2007 |access-date = 2007-09-29 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071026130526/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_Transcripts_ARB2.pdf |archive-date = October 26, 2007 |author-link = OARDEC {{Cite web |url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf |title = Index of Summaries of Detention-Release Factors for ARB Round Two |author = OARDEC |publisher = United States Department of Defense |date = July 17, 2007 |access-date = 2007-09-29 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071026130524/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Detention_Transfer_Factors.pdf |archive-date = October 26, 2007 |author-link = OARDEC {{Cite web |url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Decision_Memos.pdf |title = Index of Transfer and Release Decision for Guantanamo Detainees from ARB Round Two |author = OARDEC |publisher = United States Department of Defense |date = August 10, 2007 |access-date = 2007-09-29 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080227125640/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index_ARB_Round_2_Decision_Memos.pdf |archive-date = February 27, 2008 |author-link = OARDEC {{Cite web |url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000197-000294.pdf#31 |title = Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Futuri, Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur |date = 11 July 2005 |author = OARDEC |pages = 31–33 |publisher = United States Department of Defense |access-date = 2007-12-10 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071214105656/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_1_Factors_000197-000294.pdf#31 |archive-date = 14 December 2007 |author-link = OARDEC }}{{citation overkill|date=January 2025}} {{Cite web |url = http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_200-298.pdf#91 |title = Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Futri, Muhammad Abd Allah Manur Safrani |date = 18 April 2006 |author = OARDEC |pages = 91–94 |publisher = United States Department of Defense |access-date = 2007-12-09 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071214101738/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/ARB_Round_2_Factors_200-298.pdf#91 |archive-date = 14 December 2007 |author-link = OARDEC }} {{Cite news |url=http://www.pegc.us/archive/In_re_Gitmo/gov_mot_to_dismiss_20070419.pdf |title=Exhibit B: List Of Enemy Combatant Detainees With Pending Habeas Corpus Petitions Who Have Been Released From United States Custody |publisher=United States Department of Justice |date=April 17, 2007 |access-date=2008-05-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327090515/http://www.pegc.us/archive/In_re_Gitmo/gov_mot_to_dismiss_20070419.pdf |archive-date=March 27, 2009 }} | 2002-01-16 | 2006-12-15 | *Named differently on the official lists of names.
[http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_46_3096-3129.pdf#29 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)], from Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 29-34 |
| 263 | Ashraf Salim Abd Al Salam Sultan | 2002-02-09 | ||
| 557 | Abu Sufian bin Qumu | 2002-05-05 | 2007-09-28 | * Repatriated in the fall of 2007.
{{Cite news |url = http://media.www.spectatornews.com/media/storage/paper218/news/2007/10/01/NationWorldNews/Pentagon.Frees.Eight.Guantanamo.Detainees-3001627.shtml |title = Pentagon frees eight Guantanamo detainees: The U.S. Supreme Court opens a new term with a detainee-rights issue |publisher = The Spectator |date = 1 October 2007 |access-date = 2008-04-16 }}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 2011, he emerged as a rebel leader in the Libyan civil war against Muammar Gaddafi.{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8472816/WikiLeaks-Guantanamo-detainee-is-now-Libyan-rebel-leader.html | title=WikiLeaks: Guantanamo detainee is now Libyan rebel leader | author=Holly Watt | publisher=The Daily Telegraph | date=April 26, 2011 | access-date=2011-04-29 | location=Katni }} Reported to be involved in the terror attack on the US consulate that resulted in the death of US Ambassador Chris Stevens.{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/al-qaeda-ex-gitmo-detainee-involved-in-consulate-attack-intelligence-sources-say/|title=Al Qaeda, ex-Gitmo detainee involved in consulate attack, intelligence sources say|date=19 September 2012|work=Fox News}} |
| 654 | Abdel Hamid al-Ghazzawi | 2002-06-18 | 2010-03-23 | *His case was considered by two Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The first Tribunal in November 2004 determined he had not been an "enemy combatant" and there was no evidence of al-Qaeda involvement. A second Tribunal was convened 55 days later with new members, in Washington, at which neither the detainee nor his representative was present. Claiming new "secret" information, the tribunal in January 2005 found him to be an enemy combatant. His attorney reviewed the files in 2006 and found there was no new information, secret or otherwise, and described the ruling as a "kangaroo court."
[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-candace-gorman-/secrets-of-the-war-crimin_b_34505.html H. Candace Gorman, "Secrets of the War Criminals"], Huffington Post, 20 November 2006, accessed 26 February 2013 {{Cite web| url=http://law.shu.edu/news/final_no_hearing_hearings_report.pdf | title=No-hearing hearings | page=34 | author1=Mark Denbeaux|author2=Joshua Denbeaux|author3=David Gratz|author4=John Gregorek|author5=Matthew Darby|author6=Shana Edwards|author7=Shane Hartman|author8=Daniel Mann|author9=Megan Sassaman|author10=Helen Skinner | publisher=Seton Hall University School of Law | access-date=April 2, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080802031333/http://law.shu.edu/news/final_no_hearing_hearings_report.pdf | archive-date=August 2, 2008 | url-status=dead }} No charges were ever filed against him.
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| 685 | Abdelrazak Ali Abdelrahman | 2002-06-18 | ||
| 695 | Omar Khalifa Mohammed Abu Bakr | 2002-08-05 | 2016-04-04 | Released in Senegal. |
| 708 | Ismael Ali Faraj Ali Bakush | 2002-08-05 | ||
| 709 | Abdul Rauf Omar Mohammed Abu Al Qusin | 2002-08-05 | 2010-02-24 | * Transferred to Albania. |
| 727 | Omar Deghayes | 2002-08-05 | 2007-12-19 | * His lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, the legal director of Reprieve alleges that Deghayes was blinded by pepper spray used by guards inside the Guantanamo prison.[http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091001113010/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article%2D16680139%2Dman%2Dblinded%2Dat%2Dguantanamo.do "Man blinded at Guantanamo"], This Is London, News
{{cite news | url=http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/727-omar-amer-deghayes | title=Guantanamo Docket: Omar Amer Deghayes | work=New York Times | author=Margot Williams | date=2008-11-03 | access-date=2013-06-20 | author-link=Margot Williams }} |
| 761 | Ibrahim Mahdy Achmed Zeidan | 2002-08-05 | 2007-11-02 | * Transferred to Jordan on November 2, 2007.{{cite news| url=http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/761-ibrahim-mahdi-achmed-zeidan | work=The New York Times | title=Ibrahim Mahdi Achmed Zeidan - The Guantánamo Docket| date=18 May 2021 }} |
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{{cite news
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/us/politics/guantanamo-transfers.html
| title = 2 Libyan Guantánamo Inmates Are Transferred to Senegal
| work = New York Times
| author = Charlie Savage
| date = 2016-04-04
| access-date = 2016-04-04
| archive-date = 2016-04-04
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| quote = The United States military has transferred two Libyan detainees to Senegal from its wartime prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, government officials said on Monday, the first time Senegal has resettled a Guantánamo prisoner.
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| title=Guantanamo Docket: Abdul al Ghizzawi
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{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
| title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
| author=OARDEC
| publisher=United States Department of Defense
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184034/http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
| archive-date= 2007-09-30
| url-status= live
| access-date=2006-05-15
| author-link=OARDEC
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{{wikisource-inline|List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006}}
{{cite web
| url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
| title=List of detainees who went through complete CSRT process (All detainees who went through Round 1 of ARB process are also found on this list)
| date = 2006-04-20
| author=OARDEC
| publisher=United States Department of Defense
| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060805022431/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/detainee_list.pdf
| archive-date= 2006-08-05
| url-status= live
| access-date=2006-04-20
| author-link=OARDEC
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