Guantanamo captives' uniforms

Guantanamo captives' uniforms

Detainees held at the US-run Guantanamo Bay detention camp are typically issued one of two uniforms, either a white jumpsuit if the prisoner has been labelled "compliant", or an orange jumpsuit if the detainee has been labelled "non-compliant".cite news
url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_hwang/20050704.html
author=Rosa Hwang
title=Inside Guantanamo Bay
publisher=CBC News
date=July 4, 2005
accessdate=2008-09-19] cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4422825.stm
date=Friday, 8 April 2005, 09:13 GMT 10:13 UK
title=Inside Guantanamo's secret trials
author=Adam Brookes
publisher=BBC News
accessdate=2008-09-19] cite web
publisher=National Geographic
date=April 2005
url=http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature8/gallery3.html
title=Detention Controversy
accessdate=2008-09-19]

When the detainees face Combatant Status Review Tribunals or Administrative Review Board hearings, they were frequently asked to explain their uniforms to the overseeing officer, and they were considered a point in favour of further detaining or releasing the prisoner.

Once insurgents began capturing foreigners in Iraq, there was a tendency to dress them in the same orange jumpsuits as their own forces were being dressed in when delivered to Guantanamo Bay - considered by some to be a sign of the insurgents "equating" the captures. [ [http://www.amsc.belvoir.army.mil/articles/SBLM06-1/rejan.pdf] ] Dead link|date=September 2008

On March 16, 2006 Secretary of State legal adviser John B. Bellinger III gave a digital press conference in which he dismissed the view that all the prisoners were being held in orange jumpsuits, stating "Very few people wear orange jump suits anymore, and yet that is the image that is being left with people all around the world, that everybody in Guantanamo is wearing an orange jump suit..." [cite web
url=http://germany.usembassy.gov/germany/bellinger_dvc.html
publisher=United States Department of State
author=John B. Bellinger III
date=March 13, 2006
title=Digital Video Press Conference with John B. Bellinger III, Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State]

A number of protests against the prison camp have seen activists dress in the iconic orange jumpsuits to draw attention to the issue. [cite web
url=http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news16/news766.html
title=The World can't wiat -- drive out the Bush regime
accessdate=July 18
accessyear=2007] [cite web
url=http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2007/01/359615.html
date=Thursday, January 11, 2007
title=Guantanamo Bay 5th Anniversary 'Celebrations’
publisher=Indymedia
accessdate=July 18
accessyear=2007] [cite web
title=Five Years of Guantanamo
publisher=National Guantanamo Coalition
url=http://www.guantanamo.org.uk/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,23/year,2007/month,01/day,11/Itemid,51/
accessdate=July 18
accessyear=2007] In May 2006, a Turkish judge barred Loai al-Saqa, a suspected terrorist, from being brought into his own trial, because he chose to wear an orange jumpsuit for the hearing, demonstrative of his solidarity with those in Guantanamo, and his intentions to protest or resist legal authority.cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5006728.stm
date=Monday, May 22, 2006
publisher=BBC
title=Judge bars 'Guantanamo jumpsuit'
accessdate=2008-09-19]

McClatchy report

On June 15, 2008 the McClatchy News Service published a package of articles about Guantanamo. In a profile of Zia Khalid Najib they quoted
Abdul Jabar Sabit, Attorney General of Afghanistan.cite news
url=http://detainees.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/6
title=Guantanamo Inmate Database: Zia Khalid Najib
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Tom Lasseter
date=June 15, 2008
accessdate=2008-06-16
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdetainees.mcclatchydc.com%2Fdetainees%2F6&date=2008-06-16 mirror] ] According to their report"...he was struck that detainees were classified into groups, marked in descending order from orange to white garb, by how well they behaved and not by whether they were suspected of terrorist or anti-American activities."quotation
"This division did not have anything to do with the crimes attributed to them. Only their behavior in the prison was taken into account."According to the McClatchy package some of the detainees with the most meaningful ties to terrorism had been released early, because they were compliant with the camp rules, while low-level or innocent men remained in detention because they had personality clashes with their guards.

Guantanamo detainees whose uniforms were an issue

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530 || Dawd Gul |
* Gul's transcript records that Gul drew the attention of his Tribunal to his orange uniform [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_44_2922-3064.pdf#98 Summarized transcripts (.pdf)] , from Dawd Gul's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal" - page 98] ::

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