Guantanamo America's Shame Files Leaked

The prison at Guantánamo bay Navel Base has always been controversial since its opening during the George W. Bush administration which used it as a means of denying the prisoners Constitutional Rights which would be afforded them if the trials where held on U.S. territory. Lawyers at the U.S. Justice Department: Jay Baybee and Jon Yu wrote several memos which gave legal clearance to torture prisoners even though it violated U.S. and International Law.

President Obama promised to close the prison even going so far as to issuing an Executive Order yet the prison remains and those still held there will be tried under Military Tribunals created by the Bush administration which many see as a violation of the defendants and as Show Trials.

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Guantánamo detainee file: Mohammed Sadiq US9AF-000349DP

Guantánamo detainee file: Mukhibullo Abdukarimovich Umarov US9TI-000729DP

The files depict a system often focused less on containing dangerous terrorists or enemy fighters, than on extracting intelligence. Among inmates who proved harmless were an 89-year-old Afghan villager, suffering from senile dementia, and a 14-year-old boy who had been an innocent kidnap victim.

The old man was transported to Cuba to interrogate him about "suspicious phone numbers" found in his compound. The 14-year-old was shipped out merely because of "his possible knowledge of Taliban...local leaders"

The documents also reveal

• US authorities listed the main Pakistani intelligence service, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), as a terrorist organisation alongside groups such as al-Qaida, Hamas, Hezbollah and Iranian intelligence.

Interrogators were told to regard links to any of these as an indication of terrorist or insurgent activity.

• Almost 100 of the inmates who passed through Guantánamo are listed by their captors as having had depressive or psychotic illnesses. Many went on hunger strike or attempted suicide.

Guantánamo Bay files: Children and senile old men among detainees

Sadiq's records state he was detained after suspicious documents allegedly belonging to his son were found in a raid on his house. He was flown to Guantánamo four months later. Interrogators concluded within six weeks of his arrival that Sadiq was "not affiliated with al-Qaida", not a Taliban leader and possessed "no further intelligence value to the United States". He was repatriated to Afghanistan after a further four months.

Another elderly and unsuitable prisoner was found to have senile dementia on arrival at Guantánamo. Haji Faiz Mohammed, then 70, was flown to the base in 2002 after being swept up in a raid by US troops in Afghanistan. "There is no reason on the record for detainee being transferred to Guantánamo Bay detention facility," his assessment says.

Guantánamo Bay files: Anti-extremist author framed and whisked to Cuba

US forces sent an anti-extremist author to Guantánamo Bay after being misled by Pakistani authorities.

Abdul Badr Mannan and his brother were arrested in Pakistan and turned over to US forces. In the belief the two were affiliated with al-Qaida, his detention log states, they were transferred on to the Cuban base.

However, four months after assessing Mannan as a high-risk detainee, US forces came to a very different view, recommending his release. "The detainee was also thought to have some affiliation with the Jama'at Ul Dawa AlQurani (JDQ) group," his file states. "However, it appears the detainee may have been writing a book (detainee and his brother are published authors) concerning Islamic extremism and had merely established contacts to further his research and writing."