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Guantanamo. US officials said their continued detention was due to concerns the detainees might be tortured or killed
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to release the names of all the detainees by 6:00 p.m. EST on March 3, 2006. The
Department of Defense did not meet this deadline. They delivered a CD-ROM with approximately 5,000 pages of documents at 6:20 pm. DoD had to take that CD-ROM back and issue a second copy that without files that DoD
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Combatant Status Reviews determined that 38 detainees were not illegal combatants after all. They determined that the rest of the detainees had been correctly classified as "enemy combatants" during their original, secret, classifications.
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334:from the original on 10 January 2024
297:"Rift in Bush's team over detainees"
1322:United States Department of Defense
1237:"Inside Guantanamo's secret trials"
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985:"ARB Transcripts 2397-2490"
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868:"ARB Transcripts 2100-2195"
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206:on December 1, 2008
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1294:Kuwait News Agency
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