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 camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...
s, 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
''Rasul v. Bush'', 542 U.S. 466 (2004), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that foreign nationals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp could petition federal courts for writs of ''habeas corpus ...
. As of January 2008 the camp population stands at approximately 285.
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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
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian intelligence agency, foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gat ...
's network of " black sites".
Somali detainees in Guantanamo
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