Egyptian captives in Guantanamo

The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding eight Egyptian captives in Guantanamo.^[1] A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002 The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new captives, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of January 2008 the camp population stand at approximately 285.

[edit] Egyptian captives acknowledged by the DoD

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Ala Abdel Maqsud Muhammad Salim

Allegedly trained at an Afghan military camp.^[7]
Allegedly sold videos of the USS Cole bombing.^[7]
Allegedly first arrived in Afghanistan shortly before the attacks of September 11, 2001.^[7]
Allegedly served as a torturer in Afghanistan in mid 2000.^[7]
Repatriated in late 2006.^[11]
Reportedly, harsh conditions in Guantanamo have left him with slurred speech.^[11]

Became a paraplegic in Guantanamo -- reports it was due to an unprovoked beating in the prison hospital.^[12]
Left Egypt after criticizing its government for being anti-democratic, when his passport expired the only place left for him to live was Afghanistan.^[12]
Three writs of habeas corpus were submitted on his behalf -- but none of them were published when the Department of Defense published 179 other habeas petitions.^[13]
Determined not to have been an enemy combatant, after all.^[13]

Was captured while having a wound from the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan treated.^[14]
Allegedly trained at a military camp in Northern Pakistan, near Kashmir.^[15]
Claims he was a human rights worker for the Saudi Red Crescent, who had spent a total of two hours inside Afghanistan to deliver humanitarian aid.^[15]
Claims he was sold for a bounty.^[15]
Was injurd during the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan, and had his leg amputated above the knee by Guantanamo medical staff.^[16]
Had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf.^[17]
Has been repatriated to Saudi custody.^[16]

CSRT allegations	59-60
CSRT transcript	82-92

Originally from Egypt, acknowledged volunteering to fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan during the 1980s.^[18]
Acknowledged living in Bosnia in the 1990s, but being forced to leave, when he then returned to immigrate to Afghanistan.^[18]
Acknowledged engaging in hostilities during the civil war between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance -- prior to September 11, 2001 -- denied engaging in hostilities after the al Qaeda attacks, as he was too busy trying to escape Afghanistan.^[18]
Acknowledges providing military training during the civil war period.^[18]
Acknowledges being captured while fleeing the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan, but stated he was unarmed and was traveling with a group of other unarmed refugees which included the wounded, and women and children.^[18]

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Fael Roda Al-Waleeli

Was still in Guantanamo on November 19, 2004 -- four months into the CSR Tribunal process.^[19] But there is no record that a Tribunal was convened for him.
On March 28, 2008 the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram reported that Fael had been transferred from Guantanamo "three years earlier", but that they had been unable to find out any reliable information about what happened to him after his transfer.^[11]

There is no record this captive participated ih his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
Allegedly gave interrogators a false identity.^[20]
Allegedly stayed in suspicious guest houses.^[20]
Allegedly a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and al Qaida.^[20]
Allegedly captured with an admitted supporter of Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, in Lahore, during the "Greentown" raids on 3 April 2002.^[20]
Allegedly a bodyguard for Usama Bin Ladin.^[20]
Determined not to have been an enemy combatants after all.^[22]
Released to Albania, on January 7, 2007, where he has applied for asylum.^[16]