The Guantánamo Diaspora

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Published: Nov. 29, 2010

The Guantánamo Diaspora

President Obama signed an order shortly after taking office to close the Guantánamo Bay prison within one year. But the deadline passed as it became harder than the administration expected to transfer the detainees. A secret cache of State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to several news organizations reveals painstaking efforts by the United States to transfer detainees away from the prison under both the Bush and Obama administrations.  

174remain at Guantánamo

Yemen	88
Afghanistan	20
Saudi Arabia	14
Algeria	8
Libya	6
Pakistan	6
Tunisia	6
China	5
Syria	4
Palestinian territories	2
Sudan	3
Kuwait	2
Malaysia	2
Mauritania	2
Morocco	2
Uzbekistan	1
Bosnia and Herz.	1
Canada	1
Egypt	1
Indonesia	1
Iraq	1
Kenya	1
Russia	1
Somalia	1
Tajikistan	1
United Arab Emirates	1

Note: Six detainees were released without their nationalities identified, and one detainee is both Egyptian and Bosnian, so the table has seven extra entries.

599have been transferred to the countries below

6died in custody

One cube represents one Guantánamo Bay prison detainee

·                                 Detainee returned to his own country

·                                 Detainee received by a country where he is not a citizen

By THE NEW YORK TIMES | Sources: Department of Defense; Department of Justice; Guantánamo Review Task Force; news reports

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