Guantanamo detainees missing from the official list

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There seem to be^{[citation needed]} a certain number of Guantanamo detainees missing from the official list the Department of Defense released in compliance with a court order from Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.^[1]^[2]

Associated Press had filed Freedom of Information Act requests for the detainees names to be released. The DoD had exhausted their arguments and appeals to keep the detainees identities classified. The deadline of Justice Rakoff's court order was 6:00 pm March 3, 2006. The Department of Defense missed this deadline, supplying document later in the evening of March 3rd.

Instead of supplying a list of the detainees identities the DoD released approximately five dozen portable document format files, that contained transcripts from all the Combatant Status Review Tribunals where the detainee had actively participated, and from some Administrative Review Board hearing. The DoD's position was that they would keep confidential the identities of all the detainees who had not chosen to participate in their Tribunals and hearings.

Over the next month the DoD quietly released some further files containing more Administrative Review Board hearing transcripts. On April 20, 2006 the DoD released a list of 558 detainees, which they said was all the detainees for whom a Combatant Status Review Tribunal sat to determine whether they had been correctly classified as an enemy combatant. They did not, however, report which detainees had been determined to have been innocent. And they did not, at that time, offer the names of any detainees released prior to the initiation of the CSRTs.

On May 15, 2006 the DoD released 759 names, which they said contained all the names of all the detainees who had been held, in military custody, in Guantanamo.

Many of the detainees' names were spelled inconsistently on the two lists. Further some detainees were not listed, at all, on the final list.

[edit] List of detainees

**Guantanamo detainees whose names appear to be missing from the official list**
Abdur Rahim	Believed to be behind a rocket attack on Firebase Salerno.^[3] Released 15 months later, when the actual mastermind was identified.
Muhassen Al-Asskari	Released in December 2006.^[4]^[5]^[6]
Wazir (unnumbered Guantanamo detainee)	Named on a habeas corpus petition on January 31, 2007.^[7] Guantanamo contained four captives who had "Wazir" as part of their name.