WASHINGTON - A trove of over 700 classified military documents provides accounts of the men who made time in the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and new and offer new knowledge on evidence against 172 men still trapped there.
The U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay still holds 172 detainees, most rated "high risk". These articles are based on a huge trove of documents secrets leak last year in organizing anti-secrecy WikiLeaks and available for the New York Times by another source on condition of anonymity.Editors and journalists who have worked on these articles will be select replying to questions on the coverage of the subject.
A detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison prayed outside his cell in 2007, in a zone for more compliant detainees.Military intelligence officials, in the assessments of prisoners written between February 2002 and January 2009, assessed their stories and provided an overview of the tensions between the captors and captives. What began as an experiment bar after the 2001 terrorist attacks now appears to be a sustainable American institution, and leak files show why, laying naked the patchwork evidence and contradictory that, in many cases, would never have stood up to the criminal court or military tribunal.
Documents meticulously record the "pocket litter" detainees when they were captured: a ticket for bus in Kabul, a false passport and the false student ID, restaurant reception, even a poem. They list of diseases of prisoners - hepatitis, gout, TB, depression. They note their serial examinations, listing - even after six years of relentless questioning - remaining "zones of potential exploitation." They describe the offences of inmate - guards punching, tearing shower shoes, yelling through barracks. And, as analysts try to strengthen the case for continued incarceration, they save years of comments on one of the other inmates.
Documents secret, made available to the New York Times and several other news organizations, revealed that most of the remaining 172 prisoners have been noted as a "high risk" to represent a threat to the United States and their allies if released without supervision and adequate rehabilitation. But they also show that an even greater number of prisoners who left Cuba - about a third of the 600 has already been transferred to other countries - have been also designated "high risk", until they were released or transferred to the custody of other Governments.
The documents are mostly silent on the use of tactics harsh interrogation at Guantanamo - including sleep deprivation, shackling in stress positions and prolonged exposure to cold temperatures - which attracted global condemnation. Several prisoners, however, are described as false stories about being subjected to abuse.
Allegations of the Government against many detainees have long been in public and were often challenged by the prisoners and their lawyers. But records, prepared under the Bush administration, provide a deeper look at the frightening if, with gaps, intelligence who managed to persuade the administration of Obama, also, that the prison cannot easily be closed.
The prisoners particularly concerned included counter-terrorism officials some accused of being killers of Al Qaida, secret agents for a suicide mission cancelled and detainees is committed to their interrogators would wreak vengeance against America.
Military analysts files provide further details on the most infamous of their prisoners, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the planner of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Some time around March 2002, he ordered a former Baltimore resident to put on a jacket of suicide bombings and to conduct a "martyr" attack against Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, according to documents. But when the man, Majid Khan, arrived in the Pakistani mosque that he had said that Mr. Musharraf went, the assignment has proven to be just a test of its "willingness to die for the cause".
Records also show the intuitive intelligence in war zones that led to the incarceration of men innocent years error of identity or simple misfortune. In May 2003, for example, Afghan forces captured prisoner 1051, Afghan named Sharbat, close to the scene of the explosion of a bomb, the documents show. He denied any involvement, saying that he was a shepherd. Analysts and Guantánamo speakers agreed, citing its consistent history, his knowledge of the animal husbandry and its ignorance of "simple military and political concepts", according to its assessment. Still a military tribunal declared him an "enemy combatant" in any event, and it is not sent home until 2006.
Administration officials Obama condemned the publication of classified documents, which were obtained by the anti-secrecy WikiLeaks group last year but has provided both by another source. Officials have noted that the administration task force created in January 2009 has reviewed the information in the assessments of the prisoner and in some cases come from different conclusions. Thus, they said, the documents published by the Times do not represent the opinion of the current Government of persons detained at Guantánamo.
Among the conclusions in the files:
20Th ?the pirate air: the documented case of abusive interrogation at Guantánamo was coercive interrogation, late 2002 and early 2003, Mohammed Qahtani. A Saudi believed to have been a participant in the attacks of 11 September, Mr. Qahtani a leash like a dog, sexually humiliated and forced to urinate on himself. His file said: "Although published publicly records allege inmate was subject to harsh interrogation techniques, in the early stages of detention" his confessions "appear to be true and are confirmed in the reports from other sources." But claims that he is said to have been at least 16 other prisoners - especially in April and May 2003 - are cited in their files without warning.
Charlie Savage reported from Washington and William Glaberson and Andrew w. Lehren in New York. Scott Shane contributed reporting from Washington and Benjamin Weiser and Andrei Scheinkman of New York.
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