List of Iraqi detainees at Guantanamo Bay explained

There were initially 16 Iraqi detainees in Guantanamo.[1]

In 2005, nine Iraqi citizens were held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[2] Eight of them have been repatriated, four as late as 2009.[3] Among them Abdul Hadi al Iraqi is the last Iraqi citizen in Guantanamo.

isn name arrival
date 		departure
date 		notes
2002-05-03 2009-01-17
  • Guards nicknamed him "Pimp Daddy".[4]
2002-05-03 2009-06-10
2002-05-05 2009-01-17
2002-05-05 2004-03-31
2004-03-31
2002-06-08 2009-01-17
2002-08-05 2009-01-17
2003-02-07 2007-03-30
  • Refugee with residency permission in the United Kingdom.
  • Capture in Gambia followed a denunciation by British intelligence, who had employed him as an informant against Abu Qatada.[5] [6]
  • Released on April 3, 2007.[7]
2007-04-27
  • Previously held in CIA custody

Notes and References

  1. Web site: List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. OARDEC. OARDEC. United States Department of Defense. May 15, 2006. 2007-09-29.
  2. News: Citizens of Iraq - The Guantánamo Docket. The New York Times . 18 May 2021 .
  3. News: 4 ex-Gitmo prisoners transferred to Iraqi custody . . Hadeel Al-Shalchi, Qassim Abdul-Zahra . 2009-02-09 . 2009-02-09 . 2024-05-24 . https://archive.today/20240524081812/https://www.webcitation.org/5eSsUtHjE?url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hwK_CSpBxsNuVUEaDuOwmSSCiqGwD9684OK00 . dead.
  4. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=11981&R=EC02576F It's Hard Out Here for an Iraqi: The story of "Pimp Daddy," an Iraqi detainee at Guantánamo
  5. http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/14200344.htm Britain will ask U.S. to hand over Guantanamo detainee
  6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/01/AR2006040101465_pf.html Courted as Spies, Held as Combatants: British Residents Enlisted by MI5 After Sept. 11 Languish at Guantanamo
  7. News: New Zealand Herald. Freedom bitter-sweet, best friend still at Guantanamo. April 3, 2007. Kim Sengupta. March 31, 2007.

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