- Source: Canadian detainees at Guantanamo Bay
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding two Canadian captives in Guantanamo, two teenage brothers, Abdurahman Khadr and Omar Khadr.
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. In January 2008 there were approximately 285 detainees.
Abdurahman Khadr
Abdurahman has described himself as the "black sheep" of his family, who was disgusted by the celebrations he witnessed of the attacks on September 11, 2001. He reported that he cooperated fully with the Americans, eventually agreeing to serve as a mole for the CIA, first in Guantanamo Bay detention camps, and later in Bosnia, where he was tasked to win the trust of Arab veterans of the Bosnian War of Independence.
Omar Khadr
Omar was captured after a skirmish in Afghanistan on July 27, 2002, where he was accused of throwing a grenade which fatally wounded Christopher Speer, an American Special Forces Sergeant.
Canadian residents and former residents in Afghanistan
In addition Guantanamo held approximately half a dozen men who had lived in Canada, either as refugees, candidates for citizenship, or illegal immigrants.
Guantanamo Bay files leak
On April 25, 2011, the Guantanamo Bay files leak started. These previously unpublished documents had been drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo, whereas all the previously published documents from Guantanamo had been drafted by the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants of the Office of Military Commissions. Sixteen captives secret files were not leaked, including Abdurahman Khadr's.
References
External links
Media related to Canadian captives Guantanamo detainee assessment briefs at Wikimedia Commons
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- Canadian detainees at Guantanamo Bay
- List of Guantanamo Bay detainees
- Guantanamo Bay detention camp
- List of Algerian detainees at Guantanamo Bay
- Uyghur detainees at Guantanamo Bay
- List of juveniles held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp
- Timeline of the release and transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees
- 2005 Quran desecration controversy
- Guantanamo Bay detention camp suicide attempts
- Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
