The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding Libyan detainees in Guantanamo. A total of 780 detainees have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Hundreds of detainees were released without charges.

Following the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush (2004) that detainees had the right under habeas corpus to challenge their detention before an impartial tribunal, transfers to Guantanamo decreased.

Nineteen "high value detainees" have been transferred by the CIA to Guantanamo since September 2006, as the administration restricted their access to outside counsel and courts under the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This provision of the act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush (2008), which said detainees had the right of access to federal courts for habeas corpus challenges. As of February 24, 2010, the camp population stood at 188.

On February 24, 2010, Albania accepted the transfer of three former detainees, a Libyan, an Egyptian, and a Tunisian.

ISN Name Arrivaldate Departuredate Notes 189 Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby 2002-05-05 2016-04-04 Transferred to Senegal on 2016-04-04 194 Mohammed Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri Muhammad Abd Allah Manur Safrani Al Futri Muhammad Abdallah Mansur Al Rimi Mohammed Rimi 2002-01-16 2006-12-15 Named differently on the official lists of names. Captured wearing a Casio F91W digital watch.Summary of Evidence memo (.pdf) prepared for Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - September 29, 2004 - page 244 Allegedly an employee of the Pakistani Islamic missionary group, Tablighi Jamaat.Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur Al Futuri's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 29-34 Released on December 18, 2006.6 Yemenis released from Guantanamo, Seattle Post Intelligencer, December 18, 2006 263 Ashraf Salim Abd Al Salam Sultan 2002-02-09 557 Abu Sufian bin Qumu 2002-05-05 2007-09-28 Repatriated in the fall of 2007. In 2011, he emerged as a rebel leader in the Libyan civil war against Muammar Gaddafi. Reported to be involved in the terror attack on the US consulate that resulted in the death of US Ambassador Chris Stevens. 654 Abdel Hamid al-Ghazzawi 2002-06-18 2010-03-23 His case was considered by two Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The first Tribunal in November 2004 determined he had not been an "enemy combatant" and there was no evidence of al-Qaeda involvement. A second Tribunal was convened 55 days later with new members, in Washington, at which neither the detainee nor his representative was present. Claiming new "secret" information, the tribunal in January 2005 found him to be an enemy combatant. His attorney reviewed the files in 2006 and found there was no new information, secret or otherwise, and described the ruling as a "kangaroo court."H. Candace Gorman, "Secrets of the War Criminals", Huffington Post, 20 November 2006, accessed 26 February 2013 No charges were ever filed against him. Transferred to Georgia on March 23, 2010. 685 Abdelrazak Ali Abdelrahman 2002-06-18 695 Omar Khalifa Mohammed Abu Bakr 2002-08-05 2016-04-04 Released in Senegal. 708 Ismael Ali Faraj Ali Bakush 2002-08-05 709 Abdul Rauf Omar Mohammed Abu Al Qusin 2002-08-05 2010-02-24 Transferred to Albania. 727 Omar Deghayes 2002-08-05 2007-12-19 His lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, the legal director of Reprieve alleges that Deghayes was blinded by pepper spray used by guards inside the Guantanamo prison."Man blinded at Guantanamo", This Is London, News Transferred to the United Kingdom. 761 Ibrahim Mahdy Achmed Zeidan 2002-08-05 2007-11-02 Transferred to Jordan on November 2, 2007.

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