Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed
The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding approximately one dozen Algerian detainees in Guantanamo. A total of 778 detainees have been held 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. Only nineteen new captives, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of September 2012, 167 detainees remain at Guantanamo.
On March 3, 2008 an Algerian delegation visited Guantanamo. At that time there were reported to be seventeen Algerians remaining in Guantanamo. |
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