The United States Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

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 acknowledges holding approximately one dozen Bosnian detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

A total of 778 detainees have been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba

Cuba

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 since the camps opened on January 11, 2002
The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new detainees, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush

Rasul v. Bush

Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 , is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision establishing that the U.S. court system has the authority to decide whether foreign nationals held in Guantanamo Bay were wrongfully imprisoned...

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Bosnian detainees in Guantanamo

isn	name	status	notes
65	Omar Rajab Amin Omar Rajab Amin -First annual Administrative Review Board:A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Omar Rajab Amin's first annual Administrative Review Board, on 17 May 2005.The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention....	Transferred	Joint citizen of Kuwait and Bosnia. Testified he arrived in Bosnia after the civil war was over, as an aid worker. Testified he fell in love with a Bosnian woman, and took Bosnian citizenship. Testified he paid the official fee for becoming a citizen, but he believed the citizenship clerk had added him to the list of foreign fighters who had aided Bosnia during the civil war, so he could pocket the fee. The official fee for new citizens was waived for veterans.
535	Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah is a citizen of Bosnia currently held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.As of October 22, 2010, Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed al Sawah has been held at Guantanamo for eight years five months...	Held	Allegedly attended a bomb-making course. Allegedly served on the front lines in Afghanistan. Acknowledges he had lived for a time in Bosnia, unclear if he was a citizen. He denied engaging in hostilities in Bosnia. Acknowledges providing military training in Afghanistan, but said that it was all prior to 9-11, so none of it was in violation of US laws. There is no record that he has been released—or that an Administrative Review Board Administrative Review Board The Administrative Review Board is a United States military body that conducts an annual review of the suspects held by the United States in Camp Delta in the United States Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.... s convened to conduct his annual review in 2005 or 2006.
10001	Bensayah Belkacem Bensayah Belkacem Bensayah Belkacem is a citizen of Bosnia, currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.He was born in Algeria, and arrested in his home in Bosnia, on October 8, 2001, shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001....	Held	Originally charged, tried and acquitted of plotting to bomb the US embassy in Sarajevo, based on signals intelligence. Apprehended and subjected to extraordinary rendition Extraordinary rendition Extraordinary rendition is the abduction and illegal transfer of a person from one nation to another. "Torture by proxy" is used by some critics to describe situations in which the United States and the United Kingdom have transferred suspected terrorists to other countries in order to torture the...  and held in extrajudicial detention Extrajudicial detention Arbitrary or extrajudicial detention is the detention of individuals by a state, without ever laying formal charges against them.Although it has a long history of legitimate use in wartime , detention without charge, sometimes in secret, has been one of the hallmarks of totalitarian states...  by the USA after his acquittal.
10002	Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar is a Bosnian citizen, who won his habeas corpus after being eight years and eight months in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba....	Transferred	Suspected of plotting to bomb the US embassy in Sarajevo. Told his Tribunal that his interrogators refused to interrogate him over the alleged Embassy bombing plot.
10003	Mohammed Nechle	Transferred	Allegedly has ties to the Algerian Islamic Group. Suspected of involvement in a plot to bomb the US embassy in Sarajevo.
10004	Mustafa Ait Idr	Transferred
10005	Lakhdar Boumediene Lakhdar Boumediene Lakhdar Boumediene, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina was held in military custody in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba beginning in January 2002....	Transferred
10006	Hadj Boudella	Transferred

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