Guantanamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Updated for 2010) |

Juan Cole 01/05/2010

Guantanamo: The Definitive Prisoner List (Updated for 2010) | Andy Worthington

Worthington has updated his invaluable list of Guantanamo prisoners, including those released. He shows that most were arrested arbitrarily and were probably innocent.

He has also recently argued against the anti-Yemen hysteria of recent weeks being used as a pretext for not releasing dozens of Yemenis against whom no case for guilt could be built by prosecutors.

Another antidote to Yemen Hysteria: Waq al-Waq.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page