Iranian captives in Guantanamo

Iranian captives in Guantanamo

The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding four Iranian captives 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
] A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11 2002The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new captives, 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 stand at approximately 285.

Iranian captives acknowledged by the DoD

* Allegedly served on the front lines.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000500-000599.pdf#38
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Kurd, Mohamed Anwar
date=date redacted
pages=page 38
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2008-05-26
]
* Allegedly trained at an Afghan military camp.
* Allegedly tasked to assassinate Shia leaders back in Iran.
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