American captives in Guantanamo
- American captives in Guantanamo
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding three American citizens captured in Afghanistan, during the "war on terror", and one of them was held, for a time, in Guantanamo.[cite web]
url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=May 15 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29] Guantanamo was only supposed to be used to detain non-Americans. But although Yasser Hamdi was born in the USA, he was raised in Saudi Arabia, and Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts did not realize he was an American.He was eventually repatriated to Saudi Arabia, provided he agreed to renounce his US citizenship.John Walker Lindh, "the American Taliban", was recognized as an American citizen right away.[cite news]
url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,187564,00.html
title=The Taliban Next Door
page=
pages=
publisher=Time magazine
author=Josh Tyrangiel
date=Sunday, December 9, 2001
accessdate=2008-05-26
quote=] He spent a couple of months in CIA and military custody, but was never held in Guantanamo. He was transferred to the US court system only months after his capture, and received a twenty year sentence.Jose Padilla was held without charge, for several years, in the consolidate naval brig. in North Carolina. He too was never held in Guantanamo.
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