Portal:Guantanamo

Establishing documents

 * Joint Resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States, passed by the United States Congress on September 14th, 2001.
 * Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism, from George W. Bush, President of the United States, November 13, 2001.
 * Superseded by Executive Order 13425, Trial of Alien Unlawful Enemy Combatants by Military Commission - February 14, 2007
 * Administrative Review Procedures for Enemy Combatants in the Control of the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba - May 11 2004
 * Order Establishing Combatant Status Review Tribunal, from Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to Secretary of the Navy Gordon England, July 7th, 2004.
 * Procedure for review of "New Evidence" relating to enemy combatant (EC) status - May 7 2007
 * Executive Order on torture by US Intelligence officials - July 20, 2007
 * Guantanamo Detainees (02/13/2004) - an 8 page summary

Fact Sheets

 * Guantanamo Detainees (02/13/2004) -- an 8 page policy summary.
 * Habeas Notification (12/09/2004)
 * GTMO Detainee Information (03/04/2005)
 * GTMO Detainee Processes (09/08/2005)
 * GTMO Detainee Five-Page Handout (02/15/2006)
 * List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
 * Guantanamo Review Dispositions -- Final Dispositions as of January 22, 2010

"Former captive terrorism trends"

 * Former GTMO Detainee Terrorism Trends (2008/06/13)
 * Former Guantanamo Detainee Terrorism Trends (2009-04-07)
 * Partial Listing of Former GTMO Detainees Who have Reengaged in Terrorism

Some recent press releases

 * 474th Celebrates Six Months of Hard Work
 * Guantanamo Detainee Charged (ISN 768) (December 21, 2007)
 * Detainee dies of apparent natural causes at Guantanamo 2011-02-04

Interrogation methods

 * Bush Memo of Feb 7, 2002, Humane Treatment of al Qaeda and Taliban Detainees
 * Counter Resistance Strategy Meeting Minutes, 2002 Oct 2
 * Dunlavey Memo of Oct 11, 2002, Counter-Resistance Strategies
 * Attachment 1: Phifer Memo of Oct 11, 2002, Request for Approval of Counter-Resistance Strategies
 * Attachment 2: Beaver's cover letter re: Legal Review of Aggressive Interrogation Techniques
 * Attachment 3: Beaver Memo of Oct 11, 2002, Legal Brief on Proposed Counter-Resistance Strategies
 * James T. Hill 2002-10-25 memo re Counter-Resistance Techniques, attaching the above.
 * Haynes Memo of Nov 27, 2002, with Dec 2 2002 SECDEF Rumsfeld approval
 * JTF GTMO 'SERE' Interrogation Standard Operating Procedure, Dec 10, 2002
 * Statement of Alberto J Mora on interrogation abuse, July 7, 2004

Intelligence summaries, Intelligence issues

 * Summary of the High Value Terrorist Detainee Program, from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
 * Secret ORCON: Interrogation Log Detainee 063
 * Treatment of Prisoners and Detainees, an FBI memo
 * FBI e-Mail concerning torture at Guantanamo Bay, 2003 stating concerns that "torture" was being carried out by DoD falsely claiming to be FBI agents
 * Information paper: Uighur Detainee Population at JTF-GTMO October 30th, 2004
 * Excerpt from the Terrorist Organization Guide, devoted to the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM)

OARDEC documents

 * Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) and Administrative Review Board (ARB) Documents Released March 3, April 3, and April 19, 2006

Combatant Status Review Tribunal documents
$Following the United States Supreme Court ruling in Rasul v. Bush, on June 28 2004, every captive held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, had a Combatant Status Review Tribunal convened to determine whether they had been correctly designated as an "enemy combatant. 572 captives had a Tribunal convened.$


 * Combatant Status Review Tribunal (fact sheet of October 17, 2006)

Classified Summary

 * The Department of Defense released multiple versions of some of the 53 portable document format files. The last page of the last file originally bore the Classified Summary of Mohamed Ben Moujane.  A later version of this file bore a two sentence summarized transcript.

Summary of Evidence memos
$A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for all 572 captives who had a Combatant Status Review Tribunal convened.$

Summary of Evidence memos of the 14 "high value detainees"
On September 6th 2006 14 "high value" captives were transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp from their extrajudicial holding areas, where they were expected to faces charges before a Guantanamo military commission.

As of April 16th 2007 twelve of their memos have been released

Full verbatim transcripts, winter 2007
The DoD released the full, verbatim transcripts of twelve of the fourteen high value detainees in March and April of 2007.

Summarized transcripts, August 2004-January 2005
The DoD released summarized transcripts from the over three hundred captives whose Tribunals were convened between August 2004 and January 2005.

Other CSRT Documents

 * Abu Zubaydah's description of the Khalden training camp
 * Letter from Ali Khan, Majid Khan's father
 * Letter to Abd Al-Malek Ahmed Abd Al-Wahab Al-Rahbi (2002/12/17)
 * Letter to Abd Al-Malek Ahmed Abd Al-Wahab Al-Rahbi (2002/12/31)
 * Statement presented by Mohammed al Qahtani (ISN 063) to his second annual Administrative Review Board, October 2006
 * Recorder Exhibit List For ISN 972
 * Legal sufficiency review of Combatant Status Review Tribunal for Detainee ISN 940 (2005-01-25)
 * Legal sufficiency review of Combatant Status Review Tribunal for Detainee ISN 940 (2005-02-05)
 * PR Comments on the results of the Tribunal for #312
 * Statements on behalf of Abdullah Majid Al Noaimi (ISN 159)
 * Summarized Unsworn Detainee Statement (Guantanamo captive 199's response to CSR Tribunal allegations)
 * Guantanamo Release Agreement
 * Personal Representative's concluding statement on Abdul Latif El Banna CSR Tribunal's determination
 * Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid Recorder Exhibit List
 * Carrie_Wolf_Guantanamo_e-mail

Administrative Review Board hearings

 * Administrative Review Boards were convened annually for every detainee who didn't face charges, or who had not already been cleared for release or repatriation.

Congressional testimony

 * Testimony of Rear Admiral James M. McGarrah Director of Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants Department of the navy, June 15, 2005
 * Testimony_of,_Lt._Commander_Charles_Swift,_Office_of_Chief_Defense_Counsel,_Office_of_Military_Commissions,_Department_of_Defense,_September_25,_2006

Summary of Evidence memos prepared for the Administrative Review Boards
The Department of Defense released 121 Summary of Evidence memos, from the first set of annual Administrative Review Boards, on March 3rd, 2006.


 * Review Process Unprecedented

Administrative Review Board documents
$The Department of Defense released 19 portable document files containing transcripts, from captives' first set of Administrative Review Board hearings. The files were released in March and April 2006. They also contained excerpts from letters prepared for the Boards by some captive's habeas corpus lawyers, written statements from the captives, and letters from their families.$

Captives' statements

 * Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi's statement prepared for his first annual Administrative Review Board on 2006/09/26
 * ISN 043 -- Summarized Unsworn Detainee Statement
 * ISN 043 -- statement of 2006/10/23

OARDEC documents
While JTF-GTMO is responsible for the captives' detention, OARDEC is responsible for reviewing whether the captives should continue to be detained.
 * OARDEC: Evaluations, administration and recomendations
 * Annual_review_boards_continue:_OARDEC_teams_review_detainee_status

Guantanamo Military Commissions
$President George W. Bush announced that captives taken during the war on terror would face charges before military commissions. This commissions faced controversy, and the procedures have gone through three major revisions.$
 * Military Commission Review Panel Takes Oath of Office


 * Guantanamo Military Commissions version 1.0

$Heavily revised when members of the Prosecution team objected to the basic unfairness of the procedures.$


 * Guantanamo Military Commissions version 2.0

$Struck down by the US Supreme Court in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which rules that the Executive Branch lacked the Constitutional authority to establish the Military Commissions, that the US Congress had that authority.$
 * Military Commissions Fact Sheet, September 15, 2005. $(This file was still on the DoD web site on April 26 2007, even though it describes the rule prior to the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.)$


 * Guantanamo Military Commissions version 3.0

The US Congress passed the Military Commissions Act, establishing the third version of the Guantanamo Military Commissions.
 * Testimony, John D. Hutson, RAdm JAGC USN (Retired), of Rear Admiral John Hutson, Retired, Dean and President, Franklin Pierce Law Center, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, September 25, 2006
 * United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Materials for testimony of Thomas P. Sullivan concerning pending efforts to strip federal courts of habeas corpus jurisdiction relating to Guantanamo Prisoners
 * Testimony of Mr. Bruce Fein, Partner, Fein & Fein, September 25, 2006
 * Testimony of, Lt. Commander Charles Swift, Office of Chief Defense Counsel, Office of Military Commissions, Department of Defense, September 25, 2006
 * Charges sworn against detainee Mohammed Kamin
 * Director of Operations, Planning and Development for Military Commissions -- Thomas W. Hartmann's 2nd job
 * United States vs. Mohammed Jawad -- deposition of Patrick M. McCarthy
 * Bullets in furtherance of meeting of 4 February 2009
 * David Frakt memo to Susan Crawford

Annual_review_boards_continue:_OARDEC_teams_review_detainee_status

Habeas Corpus documents

 * Ghulam Mohammed v. Don Rumsfeld September 28, 2006
 * Declaration of Stephen Abraham, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army Reserve, June 14th, 2007
 * Bismullah v. Rumsfeld
 * Gherebi, et al. v. Bush, January 31st 2007
 * opposition (Zalita v. Bush)
 * Statement of Stevens and Kennedy, in Boumediene v Bush and al Odah v. USA, April 2, 2007
 * denial (Zalita v. Bush, 2007, May 2)
 * Certiorari Granted, Boumediene v. Bush, al Odah v. USA, June 29, 2007
 * Boumediene_v._Bush
 * Affidavit of Emina Planja (wife of Boudella el Hajj)
 * Hamid Al Razak v. George W. Bush: Memorandum Order (December 1, 2006)
 * Haji Bismullah a/k/a Haji Bismillah, and a/k/a Haji Besmella, v. Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense -- No. 06-1197 (2008-02-01)
 * Ahmed Zuhair v Bush, 2008
 * Protective Order And Procedures For Counsel Access To Detainee At The United States Naval Base In Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, (September 11, 2008)
 * Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 1 -- Thomas F. Hogan's Order (2 July, 2008)
 * Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 161 -- status report (18 July, 2008)
 * Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 162 -- Status report
 * Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 357 -- NOTICE OF FILING AND SUMMARY OF PETITIONERS’ RESPONSE TO RESPONDENTS’ MOTION FOR RELIEF FROM SCHEDULING ORDER (September 8, 2008)
 * Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation: Doc 677 -- Order: Granting the Petitioners' Motions for Judgment on Their Pending Habeas Petitions and Denying as Moot The Petitioners' Motions for Immediate Release on Parole into the United States (8 October, 2008)
 * Mahmoad Abdah v. Barack H. Obama -- Emergency motion for an extension of time (February 2, 2009)

Al Odah v. Bush

 * Reply of June 30, 2005, to Henry Waxman, regarding anti-semitics comments to captives, about their attorneys

Fouad Mahmoud Al Rabiah v. USA

 * Fouad Mahmoud Al Rabiah v. USA (2009-09-26)

Parhat v. Gates

 * Hufaiza Parhat, et al., v. Robert M. Gates, et al., Petitioners' motion for entry of protective order, December 18, 2006
 * Hufaiza Parhat v. Robert M. Gates -- decided June 20, 2008

Documents submitted under the authority of Thomas Hogan

 * Al-Oshan v. George W. Bush -- December 8, 2008

Tariq Al Sawah

 * Tariq Alsawam v. George W. Bush -- 05-cv-1244 (CKK) -- joint status report (2008-11-26)

Al Hami v. Bush

 * Civil Action No. 05-CV-359 (GK) -- Petitioners' status report 2008-07-21
 * Civil Action No. 05-CV-359 (GK) -- Respondents' motion to stay as to to petitioners' motion for summary judgment 2008-07-22

08-cv-0442

 * Misc. No. 08-442 (TFH) -- Doc 31: Statement regarding hearing of July 8, 2008

Captives mail

 * John Does 1-570 v. George W. Bush -- declaration of 1LT Wade M. Brown

Hunger strikes and force-feedings

 * GTMO feedings humane, within medical care standards

Muhammad Rahim

 * DoD takes custody of high-value al Qaida operative

Salman Ebrahim Mohamed Ali Al Khalifa

 * Detainee Testimony (ISN 246)
 * Literal translation of witness testimony from mother
 * Translation of witness testimony from the Administration Board of the Royal Family Council
 * ISN 246 Request For Witnesses-Document

Abdulghappar Turkistani

 * Abdulghappar Turkistani (281) December 12, 2007

Faez Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari

 * Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - AL KANDARI, Faiz Mohammad Ahmed 21 September 2004
 * Memorandum for Record 25 Sep 04
 * Memorandum for Record 26 Sep 04
 * Combatant Status Review Tribunal Decision Report Cover Sheet -- ISN 552 October 2004
 * Unclassified Summary of basis for Tribunal Decision -- ISN 552 October 2004
 * Legal Sufficiency Review of Combatant Status Review Tribunal for ISN 552 04 October 2004
 * Memorandum for Record 15 Oct 04
 * Memorandum for Record 21 Oct 04
 * Charges files against Faez Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari

Abdul Zahir

 * United States of America v. Abdul Zahir (2006/01/20)

Other

 * Position Description PD -- DV394960

Written by past or present US personnel

 * “Children in the Crossfire: Prevention and Rehabilitation of Child Soldiers”. May 7, 2003
 * Updated Assessment and Recommendation to redacted in the Case of Detainee ISN 0061, 25 June 2004
 * CSRT using CVSA results Friday, August 13, 2004
 * SecNav to oversee enemy combatant admin review, 2004
 * Al Qaeda Manual Drives Detainee Behavior at Guantanamo Bay, 29 June 2005
 * Memorandum from FBI to DoD Re: Administrative Review of Enemy Combatant 61, 05/31/2006
 * Ten Facts about Guantanamo (2006-9-14)
 * Affidavit from Sergeant Heather Cerveny, USMC, October 4, 2006
 * Statement Of John S. Pistole, Executive Assistant Director of FBI Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence before the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, 24 April 2007
 * Department of Defense correspondence regarding contraband underwear at Guantanamo Bay, 12 August 2007
 * OARDEC Conducts ARBs and CSRTs, 6 June 2008
 * Statement to Employees from Acting Director Michael Morell: "Zero Dark Thirty", 21 December 2012
 * Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Welcomes First Woman Fire Captain, 30 July 2020

From The Wire, JTF-GTMO's weekly newspaper

 * Remembering 9/11: ‘The True Heroes ... Did Not Go Home’, September 10, 2004
 * New detainee psych ward to open soon, September 2, 2006
 * Guantanamo facility will assist refugees in distress 2007
 * Things I learned after 14 months in GTMO May 4 2007
 * Caring for hunger strikers is a medical mission, July 20, 2007
 * Hard work of BSCT validated by peers, January 25, 2008
 * GTMO says farewell to remaining Cuban workers, December 21, 2012
 * Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty, 2013-02-22
 * GTMO's Guard Force Maintains Professionalism Despite Scrutiny, May 5, 2015
 * Detainee legal status makes Joint Detention Mission unique, June 19, 2015
 * International performers showcase musical talent at GTMO

Guantanamo Gazette

 * Guantanamo detainees held legally, official says
 * Cuban-American friendship spans many years
 * 'Two hearts, one spirit in friendship'

Kingsley Chronicle

 * Kingsley Airman shows No Slack attitude during deployment

Uyghur documents

 * Excerpt from the Terrorist Organization Guide, devoted to the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
 * Information paper: Uighur Detainee Population at JTF-GTMO -- 2004-10-30
 * Detainee election form (ISN 0102) -- 2004-11-12
 * Allegations against the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, from Nag Mohammed, captive 102's Tribunal -- 2004-12-05
 * Legal Sufficiency Review of Combatant Status Review Tribunal for detainee ISN 250 2005-02-08
 * Hufaiza Parhat, et al., v. Robert M. Gates, et al., Petitioners' motion for entry of protective order, December 18, 2006
 * Letter from Abdulghappar Turkistani to his attorneys, December 12, 2007
 * Uyghur notice of status -- September 30, 2008
 * The Justice Department statement on the U.S. District Court decision ordering release of the Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay -- 2008-10-07
 * No. 08-5424 -- Filed On: October 8, 2008 -- BEFORE: Henderson, Randolph, and Rogers, Circuit Judges

Suicide documents

 * Letter from Terry Henry to CCR, regarding suicides, (2006-06-10)
 * Letter from Terry Henry to Barbara, regarding suicide, (2006 mid June)

Written by past or present captives

 * Moazzam Begg letter
 * Translation of Detainee's Verbal Statement regarding Torture made by Abd Al Aziz Sayer Al Shammeri, ISN 217, on 28 Apr 05
 * Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari Summarized Sworn Detainee Statement
 * Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari Summary of Evidence 19 February 2006
 * Abdul Rahman Ahmed's oral statement at his 2006 Administrative Review Board hearing
 * Abdelaziz Kareem Salim al-Noofayee Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal 1 November 2004
 * Abdelaziz Kareem Salim al-Noofayee Summarized Detainee Unsworn Statement

Guantanamo captives' medical care

 * Navy Dentist Stays Busy at Guantanamo Bay Detainee Camp