This 2009 portrait of the alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed turned up on an "Al-Ebdaa Media" website recently, reforcing attention on the International Red Cross program that made pictures of Guantanamo detainees for their family. The Red Cross says all the images were made, and released, in collaboration with the U.S. military and given to the captives' families. "The photographs taken by the ICRC at Guantanamo Bay are not meant to be used in the public realms. However, the ICRC is not in a position to control their usage after they have been received by the families of the detainees," said Red Cross spokesman Simon Schorno in Washington D.C.
Omar Khadr in 2009. The Toronto born alleged war criminal, who was captured in Afghanistan at age 15, poses for a photo that was taken by the International Committee of the Red Cross at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and sent to his family in Canada. He was either 22 or 23 at the time.
Khalid Sheik Mohammed poses for the International Committee of the Red Cross at Guantanamo.
The International Committee of the Red Cross delivered this photo of Ahmed Darbi's children, sent by his wife from her native Yemen, to the long-held Saudi captive. Darbi's son was born after his father's capture and had never seen him. Eventually, the Red Cross won approval from the Pentagon to make photos of detainees, with the prisoners' consent, to send back to families. Darbi was one of the first. International Committee of the Red Cross
Alleged al Qaeda lieutenant Ammar al Baluchi poses for the International Committee of the Red Cross in detention at Guantanamo earlier this year. He is a nephew of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and a self described "Microsoft-trained software engineer." He holds up a Koran whose page is too fuzzy to identify the sura, or chapter, inside in Camp 7, the secret detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where former CIA detainees are segregated. The image offers a rare. if limited, look inside the prison camp run by a clandestine military team called Task Force Platinum.
Alleged 9/11 plotter Ramzi bin al Shibh in this International Committee of the Red Cross photo taken at the Guantanamo Bay prison camps, whose link appeared on an al Qaeda website Aug. 16, 2010.
Lawyers for accused USS Cole bomber Abd al Rahim al Nashiri say his parents, in Saudi Arabia, have only seen this courtroom sketch of him, made Nov. 9. 2011 at Guantanamo, since he was disappeared into the CIA's dark sites in 2002. JANET HAMLIN / MCT
Umar Abdulayev of Tajikistan, posing for a photo at Guantanamo, taken by the International Committee for the Red Cross