An Internee Security Number (ISN) is an identification number assigned by the United States Armed Forces to captives apprehended during the War on Terrorism.[1]
On March 3, 2006, in compliance with a court order from District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, the Department of Defense released 57 Portable Document Format files that contained hundreds of transcripts from the Guantanamo Bay inmates' Combatant Status Review Tribunals and Administrative Review Board hearings. These transcripts were only identified by the prisoners' ISNs.
On April 20, 2006, the Defense Department released the first of two official lists of captives, which contained the captives' ISNs, names, and nationalities.[2] That list provided information about the 558 Guantanamo captives whom the DoD acknowledges were held in Guantanamo in August 2004 and whose status as "enemy combatants" was confirmed or disputed by a CSRT.
On May 15 2006 the DoD released a longer list of 759 individuals, which they asserted listed all those who had been held military custody at Guantanamo.[3]
The two lists contain incompatible names for numerous individuals. Several dozen men who are known to have been held in Guantanamo are not present on either official list.
A ghost detainee originally known only as Triple X was not assigned an ISN because his secret imprisonment was requested by the Central Intelligence Agency.[1]
References
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Jamie McIntyre (June 16, 2004). "Pentagon: Iraqi held secretly at CIA request". CNN. Retrieved 2007-06-18.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, April 20 2006
- ^ list of prisoners (.pdf), US Department of Defense, May 15 2006