Minors detained in the War on Terror
The United States has disputed the number of minors detained in the global War on Terror.
Elaine Chao, the US Secretary of Labor, has spoken about the responsibility to give child soldiers special treatment and to provide help for them to re-integrate into society.[1] She announced a $3 million program to help re-integrate child-soldiers in Afghanistan into Afghan society.
However, the Department of Defense did not follow the policy Secretary Chao cited. They stated that they only considered a captive they suspected had been a combatant to be a minor if he or she were under sixteen years old.
Three children who had been detained with adults, and treated and interrogated as if they were adults, at the Bagram Collection Point were provided with more humane conditions at Camp Iguana. But half a dozen teenagers who should have been considered minors even by the DoD's more stringent standards were not only detained with adults, and not provided with schooling, but reported being punished by long periods in isolation and subjected to abusive interrogation.
On May 15, 2006 the Department of Defense exhausted its legal appeals and published a list of the names, ages, or estimated dates of birth of all the detainees who had been detained in military custody in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps.[2]
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May 2008 report to the United Nations
On May 15, 2008 the American Civil Liberties Union published a report that the Bush Presidency had submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.[3] The report stated that the USA had apprehended 2500 juveniles—2400 of them in Iraq. The report stated that a total of ten juveniles had been held in the Bagram Theater Detention Facility. The report stated that a total of eight juveniles had been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps.
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List of known minors detained in the global war on terror
Name | Date of Birth | Notes |
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Abdul Qudus | 1988 (est.) |
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Asad Ullah | 1988 (est.) |
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Naqib Ullah | 1988 (est.) |
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Omar Khadr | September 19, 1986 |
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Yussef Mohammed Mubarak Al Shihri | September 8, 1986 | |
Mohammed el Gharani | 1986 (est.) |
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Mohammed Omar | 1986 (est.) | |
Shams Ullah | 1986 (est.) |
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Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash | 1985 (est.) |
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Mahbub Rahman | 1985 (est.) |
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Mohamed Jawad | 1985 (est.) |
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Peta Muhammed | 1985 (est.) | |
Abd Al Razzaq Abdallah Ibrahim Al Tamini | January 18, 1984 |
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Khalil Rahman Hafez | January 20, 1984 |
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Abdullah D. Kafkas | January 23, 1984 | |
Mohammed Ayub | April 15, 1984 |
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Yasser Talal Al Zahrani | September 22, 1984 | |
Sultan Ahmad | November 1, 1984 | |
Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry | December 14, 1984 |
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Faris Muslim Al Ansari | 1984 (est.) |
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Mohammed Ismail | 1984 (est.) | |
Qari Esmhatulla | 1984 (est.) | |
Sajin Urayman | 1984 (est.) | |
Abdul Khaled Ahmed Sahleh Al Bedani | 1984 (est.) |
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Ahmed Abdul Qader | 1984 (est.) |
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Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi | 1984 (est.) |
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Ibrahim Umar Ali Al Umar | 1984 (est.) | |
Kay Fiyatullah | 1984 (est.) | |
Khalid Malu Shia al Ghatani | 1984 (est.) |
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Muhammad Surur Dakhilallah Al Utaybi | 1984 (est.) |
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Abdulrahim Kerimbakiev | January 4, 1983 |
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Zafar Iqbal | March 1, 1983 |
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Mohammed Jayed Sebai | April 1, 1983 | |
Ali Bin Ali Aleh | April 15, 1983 | |
Mohammed Mohammed Hassen | April 20, 1983 |
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Abdallah Tohtasinovich Magrupov | May 14, 1983 |
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Fahd Muhammed Abdullah Al Fouzan | December 1, 1983 |
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Faruq Ali Ahmed | December 1, 1983 |
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Mohammed Ishaq | 1983 (est.) | |
Sahkhrukh Hamiduva | 1983 (est.) |
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Tariqe Shallah Hassan Al Harbi | 1983 (est.) | |
Zakim Shah | 1983 (est.) |
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- The Pentagon Can’t Count: 22 Juveniles Held at Guantánamo
- U.S. Has Detained 2,500 Juveniles as Enemy Combatants
- Guantánamo: pain and distress for thousands of children
- ↑ Elaine L. Chao, Children in the Crossfire: Prevention and Rehabilitation of Child Soldiers, US Department of Labor, May 7, 2003
- ↑ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15, 2006
- ↑ Walter Pincus (May 15, 2008). "U.S. Has Detained 2,500 Juveniles as Enemy Combatants". Washington Post. p. A11. Retrieved 2008-05-22. mirror
- ↑ Frank Jordans (May 22, 2008). "US to review Gitmo juvenile numbers". Associated Press. Retrieved 2008-05-22. mirror
- ↑ "U.S. criticized for handling of child detainees in Iraq". CNN. May 21, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-22. mirror
- ↑ Lisa Schlein (May 21, 2008). "US Defends Policy Of Detention For Juveniles in Iraq, Afghanistan". Voice of America. Retrieved 2008-05-22. mirror
- ↑ "U.S. military criticized for detaining children". MSNBC. May 21, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-22. mirror
- ↑ Frank Jordans (May 21, 2008). "Group critices US military for child detentions". Associated Press. Retrieved 2008-05-22. mirror
- ↑ "US to review how many juveniles it detained at Guantanamo". Canadian Press. May 22, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-17. mirror
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Clive Stafford Smith (2005-06-15). "Kids of Guantanamo". Reprieve via Cageprisoners. Archived from the original on 2009-08-06. Retrieved 2009-08-06.
- ↑ The children of Guantanamo Bay, The Independent, May 28, 2006
- ↑ Factual errors cited in cases against detainees: Lawyers demand new trial system at Guantanamo, Boston Globe, July 14, 2006
- ↑ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Bostan Karim's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 138
- ↑ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Abaidullah's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 219
- ↑ Guantánamo: pain and distress for thousands of children, Amnesty International
- ↑ Reprieve uncovers evidence indicating German territory may have been used in rendition and abuse, Reprieve, October 10, 2006
- ↑ List of “Ghost Prisoners” Possibly in CIA Custody, Human Rights Watch, December 1, 2005
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Farah Stockman (2006-04-26). "7 detainees report transfer to nations that use torture". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 2009-08-06. Retrieved 2009-08-06.
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Mahbub Rahman'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 93-108
- ↑ Summary of Evidence (.pdf), from Mohamed Jawad's Combatant Status Review Tribunal October 19, 2004 - page 149
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Mohamed Jawad's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 33-38
- ↑ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Mohamed Jawad's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 131
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abd Al Razzaq Abdallah Ibrahim Al Tamini'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 35-42
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Khalil Rahman Hafez'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 9-10
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Haj Mohammed Ayub'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 49-55
- ↑ DOD Identifies 3 Guantanamo Suicides, Washington Post, June 11, 2006
- ↑ Riydadh names Guantanamo suicide victims, wants bodies, Daily News & Analysis, June 11, 2006
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 39-50
- ↑ Youngest Guantanamo Detainee Seeks Marriage, Arab News, May 5, 2005
- ↑ documents (.pdf) from Abdul Khaled Ahmed Sahleh Al Bedani's Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Ahmed Abdul Qader's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 5-11
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - page 55
- ↑ Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf) of Khalid Mallah Shayi Al Jilba Al Qahtani Administrative Review Board, March 31, 2005 - page 2
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Muhammad Surur Dakhilallah Al Utaybi'sCombatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 1-16
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdulrahim Kerimbakiev's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 1-9
- ↑ 17 ex-Gitmo detainees freed, The Nation (Pakistani newspaper), June 28, 2005
- ↑ Summary of Evidence (.pdf) from page 30 of Mohammed Mohammed Hassen's Combatant Status Review Tribunal
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdallah Tohtasinovich Magrupov's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 7-11
- ↑ "Three ex-Guantánamo detainees free in Kazakhstan". Miami Herald. December 21, 2006. Retrieved December 21, 2006.
- ↑ Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf) of Fahd Muhammed Abdullah Al Fouzan Administrative Review Board - page 94
- ↑ documents (.pdf), from Faruq Ali Ahmed's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - mirror - pages 126-131
- ↑ Summarized transcript (.pdf), from Faruq Ali Ahmed's Administrative Review Board hearing - page 36
- ↑ Guantanamo's Grip, National Journal, February 3, 2006
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Sahkhrukh Hamiduva's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 70-80