Used To Hold Those Not Classified "enemy Combatants"
On August 25, 2005, the Associated Press distributed a story about Camp Iguana being reopened to hold detainees whose Combatant Status Reviews had concluded that they should not have been determined to have been "enemy combatants".
Some detainees who were determined not to be enemy combatants were kept at Camp Iguana, while others including Sami Al Laithi continued to be detained back in Camp Delta.
On Friday May 5, 2006 five Uighurs who had been held in Camp Iguana were transported to a refugee center in Albania just prior to a review of their writs of habeas corpus which was scheduled to be conducted the following Monday. These five were among a total of 15 Uighurs who were reported to have been determined not to have been "enemy combatants" despite continuing to be held at Guantanamo incarceration facilities.
In a telephone interview, Abu Baker Qassim, one of the Uighurs sent to Albania, said Camp Iguana had held nine innocent detainees before their departure. The other four innocent detainees had been a Russian, an Algerian, a Libyan, and a man who had been born in Saudi Arabia to Uighur exiles.
On 30 September 2008 Assistant Attorney General Gregory Katsas filed a "notice of status" on the seventeen remaining Uyghur detainees—stating that the Department of Justice was not going to attempt to defend classifying the Uyghurs as enemy combatants, and was therefore no longer going to treat them as enemy combatants. Their attorneys pointed out that several of their clients remained in solitary confinement. The DoD then stated that all the Uyghurs would be transferred to Camp Iguana.
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