Somali detainees at Guantanamo Bay explained

There were a total of four Somali detainees in Guantanamo of a total of 778 detainees that have been held 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. Only nineteen new suspects, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of January 2008 the camp population stands at approximately 285.

When the DoD was forced to publish its first official list of detainees, on May 15, 2006, it listed two detainees from Somalia.In 2006 and 2007 two more detainees from Somalia were transferred to Guantanamo from the CIA's network of "black sites".

Somali detainees in Guantanamo

isn	name	arrival date	transfer date	notes
		unknown	2009-12-19	Barre was one of approximately a dozen captives whose arrival at Guantanamo was undocumented. Barre was repatriated to Somalia in November 2008.
		2002-08-05	2008-11-04	Abdallah was repatriated to Somalia in November 2008.
		2006-09-06		Transferred to Guantanamo, together with thirteen other "high value detainees" formerly held in CIA custody, on September 6, 2006.
		2007-05-??	2009-12-19	Arale was the fourth last captive to be transferred to Guantanamo. Arale was repatriated to Somalia in December 2009.

References

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Notes and References

1. News: Pentagon transfers 3 from Guantánamo prison camps . . Carol Rosenberg . Carol Rosenberg . 2008-11-04 . 2008-11-05 . 2008-11-05 . https://www.webcitation.org/5c6SG2x6N?url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/756756.html . live.
2. News: Heights, weights, and in-processing dates . . Sonia Saini, Almerindo Ojeda . 2009-12-21. mirror
3. News: Guantánamo detention census drops to 198 . . 2009-12-19 . Carol Rosenberg . Carol Rosenberg . https://web.archive.org/web/20110522010657/http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1390584.html . 2011-05-22 . dead.
4. Web site: List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006. United States Department of Defense. 2006-05-15.