The different categories of Guantanamo detainees

The prison at Guantanamo still counts 240 prisoners from 30 countries, according to the Pentagon, including some twenty who are considered of ...High interest... and dozens are waiting to be received in a third country.

•     Among the prisoners in the jails of Guantanamo a hundred are Yemeni, 25 are Afghan, twenty Algerians, 17 Chinese of the Muslim minority and Turkic-speaking Uighurs, and a dozen are Saudis, according to the latest Pentagon figures.
  
      The evaluation of dangerousness of the detainees has been the subject of several conclusions since 2002.
      
      - The Bush administration had conducted the formal charge of about twenty prisoners, asserting that the aim was to bring between 60 and 80 before military courts of exception.
  
      Among these detainees of ‘high interest’ there are, among others, the five men accused of organizing the September-11, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the brain self-claimed of the attacks. Ali Zubaydah is a suspected member of Al Qaeda and Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is accused of having participated in attacks against U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998.
      
      - Another group of 60 detainees had been declared transferable by the Bush administration, which still needed to free them by using third countries to avoid persecution of these men on their return to their country of origin.
      
        - Meanwhile, in June 2008, the Supreme Court authorized the Guantanamo detainees to challenge their detention before the federal courts of Washington. Only three judges have so far held hearings to an end and holding a dozen detainees have been declared illegal.
  
      In addition to the 17 Chinese Uighurs who had been bleached by the courts years ago and four Algerians already returned to Bosnia and France.
  
      Thursday, Barack Obama has ensured that there were currently 24 detainees in Guantanamo being on order of release by the courts.
      
      - Moreover, the new administration began in February the review one by one of the files of each prisoner, including those who were considered releasable by the Pentagon under the Bush presidency.
  
      After a preliminary examination, the Minister of Justice Eric Holder reported 30 inmates released, without specifying whether this figure included Uighurs and all the men in order of release by justice.
  
      In late April, U.S. Secretary of Defense had assured that between 50 and 100 detainees could not be released or be subject to charges.
  
      
  Ennaharonline/ M. O.