Wikileaks Secret Documents on Guantanamo Detainees

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The classified U.S. military
secret documents, about 800,
obtained by WikiLeaks give
details about the alleged
terrorist activities of al
Qaeda operatives captured
and housed at the U.S. Navy's
detention facility in Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba.

The secret documents were
shared with several news
organizations, including the
New York Times and the Washington
Post. Some have been published by
WikiLeaks, an organization that
shares secret information.

The secret documents spot-light how
detainees behaved while at Guantanamo,
and what level of danger to the
United States. They are intelligence
assessments of almost 779 individuals
who have been held at Guantanamo
since 2002, per the Post.

The classified files described some
of the detainees as being compliant
while others threatened violence
against guards. One stated he would
fly planes into houses.

The secret documents explain al Qaeda
as it grew stronger in Afghanistan
during the 1990s, prepared for the
9/11 attacks and scattered after.

According to the New York Times, the
secret documents show most of the 172
prisoners still held at Guantanamo have
been rated as a "high risk" of posing
a threat to the United States and its
allies if released without adequate
rehabilitation. They show that many
others who have been released or
transferred to other countries were
also designated "high risk," the
newspaper explains.

Detainees are assessed "high," "medium"
or "low" in regard to their intelligence
value, threat they pose while in
detention and continued threat they
could pose to the United States if
released.