• Current detainee census: 215, from 28 countries

• Detainees who have lost won their habeas corpus petitions whom federal judges have ordered set free: 31.

• Detainees who have lost their habeas corpus petitions: Eight.

• Detainees approved for release by President Barack Obama's review panels as of September 2009: About 75

• Size of Navy base: 45 square miles, straddling Guantαnamo Bay, from prison camp to air strip.

• Prison camp commanders over eight years: Nine admirals and generals.

• Captives who have died in the camps: Six. Two Saudis and a Yemeni were found hanging simultaneously in June 2006 in a suspected coordinated suicide; another Saudi, was found hanging in May 2007; an Afghan man died of colon cancer in December 2007; and a Yemeni man was found dead of suspected suicide June 1, 2009.

• Captives who arrived Jan. 11, 2002, to inaugurate Camp X-Ray: 20

• Last known arrival: Muhammed Rahim al Afghani, described as a high-level al Qaeda captive, on March 14, 2008.

• Last known departure: Six Uighurs, Muslims from an ethnic minority in China, sent for resettlement to Palau Oct. 31, 2009.

• International Committee of the Red Cross visits to the detention center since it opened Jan. 11, 2002: 69.

• Nations that have resettled cleared detainees who are not their citizens: 6: Albania, Bermuda, Belgium, France, Ireland, Palau Portugal.

• Captives convicted by Military Commission: Three. David Hicks under a plea agreement, now free in his native Australian. Salim Hamdan of Yemen, serving a 66 month sentence that ends by 2009. Ali Hamza al Bahlul, also of Yemen, sentenced to life.

• Cases involving detainee rights that have gone before the U.S. Supreme Court during the War on Terror: Five.

• Times the justices have sided with detainees against the Bush administration: Four. (Fifth is pending this session.)

• Largest captive population since detention center opened: About 660 in November 2003.

• Smallest 20 on Jan. 11, 2002.

Updated Nov. 20, 2009

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