Minors detained in the global war on terror

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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, 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]

[edit] List of known minors detained in the global war on terror

Name	Date of Birth	Notes
Asadullah Abdul Rahman	1988 (est.)	Released from Camp Iguana on January 28, 2004
Naqibullah	1988 (est.)	Released from Camp Iguana on January 28, 2004
Abdul Qudus	1988 (est.)
Omar Khadr	September 19, 1986	Captured when he was fifteen. Claims long periods in isolation. Claims abusive interrogation, beatings.
Yussef Mohammed Mubarak Al Shihri	September 8, 1986
Muhammad Hamid Al Qarani	1986 (est.)
Mohammad Omar	1986 (est.)
Shams Ullah	1986 (est.)	Combatant Status Review Tribunal confirmed his classification as an Enemy combatant.
Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash	1985 (est.)
Mahbub Rahman	1985 (est.)	Combatant Status Review Tribunal confirmed his classification as an Enemy combatant.
Mohamed Jawad	1985 (est.)	Combatant Status Review Tribunal confirmed his classification as an Enemy combatant.
Peta Muhammed	1985 (est.)
Abd Al Razzaq Abdallah Ibrahim Al Tamini	January 18, 1984
Khalil Rahman Hafez	January 20, 1984
Abdullah D. Kafkas	January 23, 1984
Mohammed Ayub	April 15, 1984
Yasser Talal Al Zahrani	September 22, 1984	Hung himself in his cell on June 10, 2006
Sultan Ahmad	November 1, 1984
Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry	December 14, 1984
Faris Muslim Al Ansari	1984 (est.)	Combatant Status Review Tribunal confirmed his classification as an Enemy combatant.
Mohammed Ismail	1984 (est.)
Qari Esmhatulla	1984 (est.)
Sajin Urayman	1984 (est.)
Abdul Khaled Ahmed Sahleh Al Bedani	1984 (est.)
Ahmed Abdul Qader	1984 (est.)
Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi	1984 (est.)
Ibrahim Umar Ali Al Umar	1984 (est.)
Kay Fiyatullah	1984 (est.)
Khalid Mallah Shayi Al Jilba Al Qahtani	1984 (est.)
Abdulrahim Kerimbakiev	January 4, 1983	Combatant Status Review Tribunal confirmed his classification as an Enemy combatant.
Zafar Iqbal	March 1, 1983
Mohammed Jayed Sebai	April 1, 1983
Ali Bin Ali Aleh	April 15, 1983
Mohammed Mohammed Hassen	April 20, 1983
Abdallah Tohtasinovich Magrupov	May 14, 1983
Fahd Muhammed Abdullah Al Fouzan	December 1, 1983
Faruq Ali Ahmed	December 1, 1983
Mohammed Ishaq	1983 (est.)
Muhammad Surur Dakhilallah Al Utaybi	1983 (est.)
Sahkhrukh Hamiduva	1983 (est.)
Tariqe Shallah Hassan Al Harbi	1983 (est.)
Zakim Shah	1983 (est.)