Names of the Detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

On May 15, 2006, the Pentagon released to the Associated Press the first comprehensive list of everyone who had been held at Guantanamo Bay since it opened four years earlier. Prior to this release, the Washington Post had been tracking names of the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay as well as those transferred out of the facility. From 2002 to May 2006, Washington Post researchers compiled the names and countries of origin of detainees in Guantanamo from unofficial, public sources: news accounts, legal documents (such as habeas corpus petitions and from the CSRT tribunals), interviews with attorneys and relatives, and information from detainee support sites across the Web That collection was the largest list of names made public at that point, encompassing more than 550.