Guantanamo Files: Child Soldiers: Files Reveal Many Inmates Were Minors

Courtesy: "Spiegel International, Germany", 28 April 2011
Guantanamo's Child Soldiers: Files Reveal Many Inmates Were Minors
The Guantanamo files reveal many of the inmates in the controversial detention camp were under 18 at the time of their capture and that the charges against them were often based on hearsay. Even detainees who US interrogators admitted were innocent had to wait a long time before being freed.By Gregor Peter Schmitz
The file reads like a description of a fighting machine. Omar Ahmed Khader, who was given the prisoner number US9CA-000766DP, was a skilled fighter. While training in Afghanistan, he learned to detonate mines and blow up bombs, not to mention "configuring IEDs for remote detonation using hand held devices."

Guantánamo Files on "FATA Awareness Initiative" - Special Series

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What are the Guantánamo Bay files?
 The Guantánamo files consists of 759 "detainee assessment" dossiers written between 2002 and 2009 and sent up through the military hierarchy to the US Southern Command headquarters in Miami.
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Classified Files Offer New Insights Into Guantanamo Detainees

The story of Osama bin Laden's Tora Bora escape

Pakistan's ISI spy service listed as terrorist group

Al-Jazeera cameraman held for six years

Guantanamo's Child Soldiers: Files Reveal Many Inmates Were Minors

Complete Database of all Guantanamo Bay Detainees

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Guantánamo Files: Al-Jazeera Cameraman's Ordeal for six years (Guardian, UK)

Courtesy: "Guardian, UK", 26 April 2011

Guantánamo Bay files: Al-Jazeera cameraman held for six years
Americans snatched Sami al-Hajj from Pakistan, believing him to be an al-Qaida courier and source of information on Bin Laden

By Ian Cobain An al-Jazeera journalist was held at Guantánamo for six years partly in order to be interrogated about the Arabic news network, the files disclose. Sami al-Hajj, a Sudanese cameraman, was detained in Pakistan after working for the network in Afghanistan after 9/11, and flown to the prison camp where he was allegedly beaten and sexually assaulted.

His file makes clear that one of the reasons he was sent to Guantánamo was "to provide information on ... the al-Jazeera news network's training programme, telecommunications equipment, and newsgathering operations in Chechnya, Kosovo and Afghanistan, including the network's acquisition of a video of UBL [Osama bin Laden] and a subsequent interview with UBL".

Guantánamo Files: Bin Laden's Tora Bora escape (Guardian, UK)

Courtesy: "Guardian, UK", 26 April 2011

Guantánamo Bay files rewrite the story of Osama bin Laden's Tora Bora escape
Several documents claim al-Qaida leader evaded US offensive by heading north, rather than into Pakistan as widely thought

By Jason Burke

The Guantánamo Bay files contain new claims about Osama bin Laden's escape from Tora Bora, which is regarded as one of the early key lapses by foreign forces in the Afghan war. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Osama bin Laden escaped American and British special forces closing in on his refuge in December 2001 with the help of a minor local warlord who provided fighters to guide him to safety in the north-east of Afghanistan, claims a secret intelligence report compiled by officials at Guantánamo Bay.

Guantánamo Files: ISI listed as Terrorist Group (Guardian, UK)

Courtesy: "Guardian, UK", 25 April 2011
Guantánamo Files: Pakistan's ISI spy service listed as terrorist group
Anyone linked to Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate should be treated like al-Qaida or Taliban

By Jason Burke

US authorities describe the main Pakistani intelligence service as a terrorist organisation in secret files obtained by the Guardian.
Recommendations to interrogators at Guantánamo Bay rank the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) alongside al-Qaida, Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon as threats. Being linked to any of these groups is an indication of terrorist or insurgent activity, the documents say.

"Through associations with these … organisations, a detainee may have provided support to al-Qaida or the Taliban, or engaged in hostilities against US or coalition forces [in Afghanistan]," says the document, dated September 2007 and called the Joint Task Force Guantánamo Matrix of Threat Indicators for Enemy Combatants. It adds that links to these groups is evidence that an individual poses a future threat.

The Guantánamo Files: Classified Files Offer New Insights Into Detainees (New York Times)

Courtesy: "New York Times", 25 April 2011
The Guantánamo Files: Classified Files Offer New Insights Into Detainees
By CHARLIE SAVAGE, WILLIAM GLABERSON and ANDREW W. LEHRENWASHINGTON — A trove of more than 700 classified military documents provides new and detailed accounts of the men who have done time at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba, and offers new insight into the evidence against the 172 men still locked up there.

Military intelligence officials, in assessments of detainees written between February 2002 and January 2009, evaluated their histories and provided glimpses of the tensions between captors and captives. What began as a jury-rigged experiment after the 2001 terrorist attacks now seems like an enduring American institution, and the leaked files show why, by laying bare the patchwork and contradictory evidence that in many cases would never have stood up in criminal court or a military tribunal.