750 Guantanamo prisoners named
2006-05-15 22:57
Washington - The Pentagon has agreed to release an expanded list of about 750 "war on terror" detainees who have been held at a US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a spokesperson
said on Monday.
But he would not say whether the latest list included all detainees who had been held at the remote US naval base in the years since the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
The new list included about 200 prisoners whose names had not been previously released, Bryan Whitman said.
The Pentagon last month released the names and nationalities of 558 detainees whose status as "enemy combatants" was reviewed by special military panels.
The latest list and the initial one in April came in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the Pentagon by the US news agency Associated Press.
Whitman said the list would give prisoners' names, nationalities, internal security number, place of birth and birth date.
- AFP