Guantanamo Bay: The Remaining Detainees

PURPOSE:

• To identify the detainees who remain in Guantanamo and evaluate the danger posed by the detainees who have returned to the battlefield.
• To assess the implications the closure of the facility would have on the United States’ national security interests.

BACKGROUND:

• Almost 800 terrorist detainees have been held at Guantanamo Bay since January 2002. Currently, 80 individuals remain detained in Guantanamo.
• President Obama inherited a population of mostly high-risk detainees when he took office, and has transferred 144 of those detainees.
• President Obama delivered a plan to Congress to close Guantanamo Bay that entailed transferring most of the remaining detainees to other countries with others transferred to an undetermined facility in the United States.
• The Director of National Intelligence published a report detailing that 118 of the 676 detainees transferred returned to battle, and another 86 are suspected of having returned to