Updated 1/12/2012
Current detainee census: 171, from 24 countries.
Youngest: 25, Omar Khadr of Canada.
Oldest captive: 62, Saifullah Paracha of Pakistan.
Captives now designated for indefinite detention, without charge or trial: 46.
Pentagon forces assigned to detention operations: 1,850, fewer than 300 of them civilians.
Detainees who died in the camps: Eight. 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; a Yemeni man was found dead of a suspected suicide in the psychiatric ward June 1, 2009; an Afghan man designated for indefinite detention collapsed Feb 1, 2011 in a cellblock after working out on an exercise machine; and an Afghan man was found hanging from a bedsheet in a prison camp recreation yard on May 18, 2011 in what the military called an apparent suicide.
Captives in camps with prosthetics: Five as of Sept. 13, 2011.
Size of Navy base: 45 square miles, straddling Guantánamo Bay, from prison camp to air strip.
Prison camp commanders over 10 years: 11 admirals and generals.
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 departure: An Afghan captive known to the Pentagon as Inayatullah and to his lawyer as Hajji Nassim, in a coffin after guards discovered him hanging from what appeared to be a bedsheet May 18, 2011 in what the U.S. military said appeared to be a suicide. He was held as an "indefinite detainee."
International Committee of the Red Cross visits to the detention center since it opened Jan. 11, 2002: 83.
Daily calorie offering to each detainee: 4,500 according to a 9/12/2011 media briefing.
Nations that have resettled cleared detainees who are not their citizens: 16: Albania, Belgium, Bermuda, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Palau, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland.
Nation that has resettled the largest number of non-citizen freed detainees: Albania has taken 11 to include Uighurs, Egyptians, an Algerian, Libyan, Tunisian and Uzbek.
Largest current concentration of captives, by nationality: About 90 Yemenis.
Captives convicted by Military Commission: Six.
Foot soldier David Hicks in a 2007 plea bargain to return home, now free in his native Australia.
Osama bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan at trial in July-August 2008, now free in his native Yemen.
Bin Laden media aide Ali Hamza al Bahlul of Yemen at trial in November 2008, serving life in a special prison annex.
Foot soldier Ibrahim al Qosi of Sudan in an August 2010 plea bargain to return to his native Sudan in 2012.
Teen terrorist Omar Khadr in an October 2010 plea bargain to return to his native Canada in 2011 and serve at most seven more years there.
Paramilitary training camp small-arms instructor Noor Uthman Mohammed on Feb. 18 in a plea bargain to return to his native Sudan by 2014, provided he testifies for the government at federal and military trials until his release.
Captives currently charged by a Military Commission prosecutor: Six. On April 20, 2011, prosecutors swore out a death penalty case against Saudi Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, now being reviewed by a senior Pentagon official. Then on May 31, 2011, a prosecutor swore charges against alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators in the 9/11 attacks, also a death penalty case under review by a senior Pentagon official.
Captives an Obama Task Force designated could go to trial: 36, three of whom have already pleaded guilty and been sentenced by military commission.
Cases involving detainee rights that have gone before the U.S. Supreme Court during the War on Terror: Four.
Times the justices sided with detainees against the Bush administration: Four.
Largest captive population since detention center opened: About 660 in November 2003.
Smallest: 20 on Jan. 11, 2002.
Updated Jan. 12, 2012

















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