US releases partial list of Guantanamo terror detainees

The Pentagon released at more than 5,000 pages of documents on Friday relating to hearings conducted at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by military panels reviewing detainee cases.

Curt Goering, a senior official with Amnesty International USA, called upon the Pentagon to release a complete list of detainees at Guantanamo as well as at facilities in Afghanistan and elsewhere. 8220;It is like kicking and screaming and pulling teeth to get any piece of information8221; on detainees from the Pentagon, Goering said.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the documents contained files on about 317 detainees. He said there are about 490 detainees currently at Guantanamo.

The detainees8217; names, often without their nationalities clearly stated, were strewn throughout the voluminous documents, making a precise count difficult.

Only 10 of the detainees at Guantanamo have been charged with a crime, and human rights activists have condemned the indefinite detentions and the prisoners8217; lack of legal rights. U.N. rights investigators have called for the closure of the prison.