After four years of secrecy, the Pentagon handed over documents Friday that contain the names of detainees held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. The release resulted from a victory by The Associated Press in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
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Most of the Guantanamo Bay hearings were held to determine whether the detainees were “enemy combatants.” That classification, Bush administration lawyers say, deprives the detainees of Geneva Convention prisoner-of-war protections and allows them to be held indefinitely without charges.
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The documents released Friday did not name all current and former Guantanamo Bay detainees. And for ones they did name, they did not make clear whether the detainees were still being held or had been released.
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The United States, which opened the prison on its Navy base in eastern Cuba in January 2002, now holds about 490 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Only 10 have been charged with crimes. [Note – that’s a 2% charge rate, after four years…]

— Source: CNN