Some names came from family members of detainees who have sent letters home through the International Committee of the Red Cross. Seventy-three people on the list have been sent back to their home countries for further detention or for release. They are marked with an "R." Several of those have been interviewed by reporters.

Many names came from two Web sites that monitor the status of Guantanamo detainees: the Arabic-language Alasra (www.alasra.org) and the Britain-based CagePrisoners (www.cageprisoners.com). Alasra lists 202 names and CagePrisoners about 330. The two sites, which advocate the release of the detainees, have published lists of names, photographs and documents provided by families. Alasra is registered to an unknown individual in Saudi Arabia, and CagePrisoners is registered to a group of Muslim computer programmers based in Britain. Sixty-two names came from an official publication of the Yemeni Defense Ministry in January, and the names of 58 Pakistanis were published by a Pakistani newspaper in October 2002. In that same month, al Qaeda supporters in Afghanistan distributed a list naming "57 al Qaeda members" who were prisoners at Guatanamo.

For three years, Washington Post researchers have been compiling the names and countries of origin of detainees from unofficial, public sources: news accounts, legal documents, interviews with attorneys and relatives, and information from detainee support sites on the Web. The Post is printing only names that it has verified from a single reputable source or multiple sources. Some names have been transliterated from Arabic or have alternative spellings.

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NameNationalityReleasedAamer, Shaker Abdur-Raheem 122Saudi Arabia Abasin, Said 216, 90AfghanistanRAbbas, Muhammad 190Pakistan Abbasi, Feroz 221, 215UK Abd, Allah Ab Aljalil Abdal Rahman 122Yemen Abderrahmane, Slimane Hadj 214DenmarkRAbdoh AKA Al Hag, Atag Ali 214YemenRAbdul Rahman, Wesam 214JordanRAbdullah, Abu 188Algeria Abdullah, Ahmad 121Morocco Abdullah, Jamal 138, 121Uganda Abdullah, Noorudeen 121Morocco Abdulraheem, Othman 3Yemen Abdulsalam, Reswan 215, 196Morocco Agha, Ismail 104AfghanistanRAhmad, Ali 148PakistanRAhmad, Ejaz 190Pakistan Ahmad, Rashid Hasan 117SudanRAhmed, Hamed Abderrahman 215, 189SpainRAhmed, Faluvi Abdullah 190Yemen Ahmed, Faruq Ali 190Yemen Ahmed, Ruhal 215UKRAhmed, Sarfaraz 190Pakistan Ait Idir, Mustapha 206, 91Algeria Akhmyarov, Rustam 179RussiaRAl Adahi, Mohamed 3Yemen Al Ajmi, Abdullah Saleh Ali 204, 5Kuwait Al Anazi, Abdullah 112Saudi Arabia Al Areeni, Khalid 15Saudi Arabia Al Asadi, Mohamed Ahmed 3Yemen Al Aseemi, Fahd Sultan Ubaid 121Saudi Arabia Al Askari, Mohsin Ali 3Yemen Al Asmar, Khalid 88Jordan Al Assani, Fahmi Salem 3Yemen Al Azmi, Saad Madai Saad 204Kuwait Al Azraq, Majid Hamoud 3Yemen Al Baasi, Mohsin Abdullah 3Yemen Al Badaah, Abdul Aziz bin Abdur Rahman 121Saudi Arabia Al Bahlul, Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman 129Yemen Al Bahooth, Ziyad bin Salih bin Muhammad 121Saudi Arabia Al Baidhani, Abdulkhaliq 3Yemen Al Banna, Jamil 95, 102Jordan Al Barakati, Khalid 120Saudi Arabia Al Blooshi, Salah Abdul Rasool 141Bahrain Al Busayss, Adil Said Al Haj Obeid 141Yemen Al Darbi, Ahmed 3, 228Yemen Al Dhabbi, Khalid Mohamed Saleh 3Yemen Al Dhabi, Salah Mohamed Saleh 3Yemen Al Dihani, Mohammed Funaitel 204, 5Kuwait Al Dini, Omar Saeed 3Yemen Al Dossary, Juma Mohammed 141Bahrain Al Fawzan, Fahd Fawzan 121Saudi Arabia Al Fifi, Jaber 121Saudi Arabia Al Fouzan, Fahd 110Saudi Arabia Al Ghaith, Abdurahman ba 3Yemen Al Ghamdi, Abdur Rahman Uthman 121Saudi Arabia Al Ghamdi, Khalaf Awad 121Saudi Arabia Al Ghamdi, Saeed Farhah 121Saudi Arabia Al Ghamdi, Zaid 121Saudi Arabia Al Ghanimi, Abdullah Muhammad Salih 121Saudi Arabia Al Habardi, Mane Shaman 121Saudi Arabia Al Habashi, Raafat 3Yemen Al Haj, Sarqawi 3Yemen Al Hamd, Adel Saleh 3, 228Yemen Al Harbi, Ibrahim Daifullah 121Saudi Arabia Al Harbi, Tariq 121Saudi Arabia Al Hassan, Sameer Naji 3Yemen Al Ilmi, Muhammad 121Morocco Al Jowfi, Rashid 121Saudi Arabia Al Juaid, Rami Sad 121Saudi Arabia Al Judaan, Hamood 121Saudi Arabia Al Juhani, Badr 121Saudi Arabia Al Juhdali, Ziyad 121Saudi Arabia Al Jutaili, Fahd bin Salih bin Sulaiman 121Saudi Arabia Al Kaabi, Jamil Ali 154, 121Saudi Arabia Al Kandari, Abdullah kamel bin Abdullah Kamal 204, 5Kuwait Al Kandari, Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed 204, 5Kuwait Al Kazimi, Ali Nasser 3, 228Yemen Al Khalafi or Khalaqi, Asim 121Saudi Arabia Al Khalidi, Sulaiman 121Saudi Arabia Al Khalifa, Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim 141, 98Bahrain Al Khowlani, Idrees 121Saudi Arabia Al Kouri, Farouq Ahmed 3, 228Yemen Al Maaliki, Sad 121Saudi Arabia Al Mahdi, Ali Yahya Mahdi 121Yemen Al Madhoni, Musaab 3Yemen Al Marrah, Khalid 121Saudi Arabia Al Marri, Jarallah 121Qatar Al Marwallah, Bishir Naser Ali 121Yemen Al Matari, Fahd Al Haimi 3, 228Yemen Al Matrafi, Abdullah 4Saudi Arabia Al Merbati, Isa 141, 121Bahrain Al Mosleh, Abdullah Hamid 121Saudi Arabia Al Muhajiri, Abdulmajeed 3, 228Yemen Al Muhammad, Mahmood 3, 228Syria Al Mujahid, Mahmoud Abdulaziz 3Yemen Al Muraqi, Khalid bin Abdullah 121Saudi Arabia Al Musa, Abdul Wahab 224, 224Saudi Arabia Al Mutairi, Khalid Abdullah Mishal 204, 5Kuwait Al Mutairi, Nasser Nijer Naser 204, 5Kuwait Al Naimi, Abdulla Majid 141Bahrain Al Nasir, Ibrahim Muhammad 121Saudi Arabia Al Nukhailan, Naif 121Saudi Arabia Al Nur, Anwar Hamdan 224Saudi Arabia Al Nusairi, Adil Uqla Hasan 121Saudi Arabia Al Odah, Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad 204, 5Kuwait Al Omar, Wasm Awad Al Wasm 121Saudi Arabia Al Omari, Musa bin Ali bin Saeed 121Saudi Arabia Al Otaiba, Bandar 121Saudi Arabia Al Owshan, Abdul Aziz Sad 121Saudi Arabia Al Owshan, Saleh bin Abdullah 121Saudi Arabia Al Owshan, Sulieman 121Saudi Arabia Al Qaaid, Rashid 121Saudi Arabia Al Qadasi, Khalid Massah 3Yemen Al Qadasi, Walid 3YemenRAl Qahtani, Abdullah Hamid al Muslih 226Saudi Arabia Al Qahtani, Jaber Hasan 13, 24Saudi Arabia Al Qahtani, Mohamed 115Saudi Arabia Al Qahtani, Sad 121Saudi Arabia Al Qosi, Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud 129Sudan Al Qurashi, Muhammad Abdur-Rahman Abid 121Saudi Arabia Al Rabahi, Abdullah Ameen 3, 228Yemen Al Rabeesh, Yusuf 121Saudi Arabia Al Rabiah, Fwad Mahmoud 204, 5Kuwait Al Rahabi, Abdulmalik Abdulwahhab 3, 228Yemen Al Raimi, Ali Yahya Mahdi 3Yemen Al Raimi, Ismail Ali 3Yemen Al Rawi, Bisher 95, 123Iraq Al Razehi, Ali Ahmed Muhammad 95, 123Yemen Al Salami, Ali Abdullah 3, 228Yemen Al Salami, Saleh Abdullah 3Yemen Al Samh, Adil Abu 3, 228Yemen Al Sarim, Saeed Ahmed 3Yemen Al Sayegh, Adnan Muhammad Ali 200Saudi Arabia Al Shabani, Fahd Abdullah 121Saudi Arabia Al Shahrani, Muhammad bin Abdur Rahman 121Saudi Arabia Al Shaibani, Bandar 121Saudi Arabia Al Shamiri, Mustafa 3Yemen Al Shammari, Abdulaziz SayerOwain 204, 5Kuwait Al Shammari, Majid Afas Radi Al Tumi 121Saudi Arabia Al Shammari, Zain 121Saudi Arabia Al Shamri, Anwar Hamdan al Noor 121Saudi Arabia Al Shaqoori, Usamah 121Morocco Al Shaqoori, Yunus 121Morocco Al Shareef, Fahd Umar 121Saudi Arabia Al Shareef, Sultan 121Saudi Arabia Al Sharikh, Abdul Hadi 121Saudi Arabia Al Sharikh, Abdur Razaq 121Saudi Arabia Al Shehri, Abdus Salam Ghaithan 121Saudi Arabia Al Shehri, Saeed Ali Jabir ale Khuthaim 121Saudi Arabia Al Shehri, Salim 121Saudi Arabia Al Shehri, Yusuf Muhammad 121Saudi Arabia Al Siblie, Abdullah Yahya Yousuf 3, 228Yemen Al Suwaidi, Abdulaziz 3, 228Yemen Al Towlaqi, Fahmi 3, 228Yemen Al Umar, Ibrahim bin Umar 121Saudi Arabia Al Unzi, Abdullah Thani Faris Al Sulami 226Saudi Arabia Al Unzi, Khalid 121Saudi Arabia Al Unzi, Rakan 121Saudi Arabia Al Unzi, Sultan Sari Saail 121Saudi Arabia Al Utaibi, Bajad bin Daifillah 121Saudi Arabia Al Utaibi, Bandar 224Saudi Arabia Al Utaibi, Muhammad Suroor 121Saudi Arabia Al Utaibi, Naif Fahd Al Aseemi 121Saudi Arabia Al Warifi, Mukhtaar 3Yemen Al Yafii, Al Khadir Abdullah 3, 228Yemen Al Zahrani, Khalid 121Saudi Arabia Al Zahrani, Sad Ibrahim Ramzi al-Jundubi 121Saudi Arabia Al Zahrani, Yasser Talal 121Saudi Arabia Al Zamil, Adil Zamil Abdull Mohssin 204, 5Kuwait Al Zuhairi, Ahmed Zaid 3, 228Yemen Al-Harith, Jamal Udeen 215United KingdomRAli, Abu Sana 121Morocco Ali, Sahibzada Usman 118, 146AfghanistanRAli, Sarfraz 190Pakistan Ali, Syed Saim 190Pakistan Amin, Aminullah 190Pakistan Amin, Omar Rajab 204, 5Kuwait Amro, Jalal Salem bin 3Yemen Anaam, Suhail Abdo 3Yemen Ansar, Muhammad 148, 146PakistanRAnwar, Muhammad 190Pakistan Aouzar, Mohamed 157Morocco Aqeel, Sulaiman bin 3Yemen Arbaish, Khalid bin Suleiman 220UNKNOWN Aseeri, Turki Mashawi Zayid Ale Jabali 121Saudi Arabia Ashraf, Muhammad 190Pakistan Aslam, Noor 127AfghanistanRAsnar, Khalid 155Jordan Ayub, Haseeb 190Pakistan Azzam, Hussein 155Jordan NameNationalityReleasedBabikir, Muhammad al Ghazali 116SudanRBadr, Badrzaman 116AfghanRBajadiyah, Saeed 121Morocco Bameri, Bahktiar 121IranRBarak 181AfghanistanRBatarfi, Ayman Saeed 3Yemen Bayifkan, Lutfi 167Turkey Begg, Moazzam 221United Kingdom Belkacem, Bensayah 2Algeria Belmar, Richard 194United Kingdom Benchakaroun, Brahim 194MoroccoRBenchellali, Mourad 163France Binmoojan, Muhammad 121Morocco Boumediene, Lakhdar 206Algeria Bukhari, Abdul Hakeem 111Saudi Arabia NameNationalityReleasedEhsannullah, 216AfghanistanREksi, Mustafa 200Turkey El Hadj, Boudella 206Algeria Elgazzar, Adel Fattouh Aly 200Egypt El-Weldi, Reda Fadel 200Egypt NameNationalityReleasedFarooq, Muhammad Naim 222AfghanistanRFauzee, Ibrahim 90Maldives Fazil or Fadhil, Mullah 161Afghanistan Feroze, Muhammad 121Morocco Fouzan, Fahed 219Saudi Arabia NameNationalityReleasedGhaffar, Maulvi Abdul 3Afghan Ghanem, Mohamed Ragab Abu 3Yemen Ghazi, Fahd Abdullah Ahmad 121Saudi Arabia Gherebi, Falen 210Libya Ghezali, Mehdi Muhammed 215Sweden Ghulab, Sher 176AfghanistanRGul, Lall 181AfghanistanRGul, Nate 109AfghanistanRGumarov, Ravil 152RussiaRNameNationalityReleasedHabib, Mamdouh 203AustraliaRHajii , Adil Kamel Abdullah 141Bahrain Hamada, Mohamed 3Yemen Hamdan, Salim Ahmed 130Yemen Hamdi, Yasir Esam 229United States Hamdoon, Zahir Omar bin 3Yemen Hamza, Abu 126Saudi Arabia Hanif, Muhammad 190Pakistan Hassan, Imad Abdullah 190Yemen Hassan, Mohammad Mohammad 190Yemen Hatem, Saeed 3Yemen Hicks, David 203Australia Hkimi, Adel 93Tunisia NameNationalityReleasedIilyas, Muhammad 190Pakistan Ikassrien, Lahcen 187Morocco Iqbal, Asif 203United KingdomRIqbal, Faid or Faiq 148PakistanRIqbal, Zafar 190Pakistan Irfan, Muhammad 190Pakistan Ishaq, Muhammad 147PakistanRIshmuradov, Timur 179RussiaRIsmail, Yasin Qasem Mohammad 179YemenRNameNationalityReleasedKanouni, Imad 162France Khadr, Abdur Rahman 212CanadaRKhadr, Omar 211Canada Khairkhwa, Khairullah 161Afghanistan Khan, Alef 97PakistanRKhan, Alif 133AfghanistanRKhan, Aziz 172AfghanistanRKhan, Aziz 190Pakistan Khan, Badshah 190Pakistan Khan, Ejaz Ahmad 147PakistanRKhan, Haji Mohammed 159AfghanistanRKhan, Hamood ullah 190Pakistan Khan, Issa 193Pakistan Khan, Juma 90Afghanistan Khan, Merza 216AfghanistanRKhan, Muhammad Ejaz 190Pakistan Khan, Muhammad Kashif 148PakistanRKhan, Tariq Aziz 148PakistanRKhasraf, Mohamed Nasser Yahya Abdullah 3Yemen Khazhiyev, Shamil 169RussiaRKifayatullah 190Pakistan Koochi, Naeem 218AfghanistanRKudayev, Rasul 169RussiaRKurnaz, Murat 215Turkey NameNationalityReleasedLagah, Lofti Ben Suihi 184Tunisia Lahmar, Saber 206Algeria NameNationalityReleasedMaimoundi, Hassan 215UNKNOWN Mamrouk, Adel Ben Hamida 184Tunisia Manzoor, Hafiz Liaqat 147PakistanRMarouz, Muhammad 147MoroccoRMaula, Abdul 148PakistanRMazloom, Fazel 215Afghanistan Mazrou, Alaa Abdel Maqsoud 215Egypt Mehmood, Majid 147PakistanRMehmood, Talli 147PakistanRMert, Nuri 200TurkeyRMeshad, Sherif 184Egyptian Mingazov, Ravil 179Russia Mohammed 6AfghanistanRMohammed, Hajii Faiz 208AfghanistanRMohammed, Jan 208AfghanistanRMohammed, Wazir 90Afghanistan Mubanga, Martin 144United Kingdom Muhammad, Ali 190Pakistan Muhammad, Mirza 173Afghanistan Muhammad, Shah 175PakistanRMujarrad, Talal Ahmed Mohamed 3Yemen Muqaddam, Murtada 121Saudi Arabia Murshid, Ayoub 3Yemen Mustafa, Khaled ben 215France NameNationalityReleasedOdigov, Ruslan 179RussiaROmar, Muhammad 190Pakistan Omar, Othman Ali 3Yemen Osman, Haji 128AfghanistanROsman, Mohammad 6AfghanistanROuld Slahi, Mouhamedou 170Mauritania NameNationalityReleasedRafiq, Muhammad 190Pakistan Rahim, Abdul 151Pakistan Rahim, Abdur 151AfghanistanRRahman, Ahmed Abdel 174Egyptian Rahman, Asadullah 100AfghanistanRRahmatoulah 100AfghanistanRRaouf, Mullah Abdel 161Afghanistan Rashid, Hani Saleh 3Yemen Rasul, Shafiq 204UKRRaza, Abid 190Pakistan Raza, Muhammad Arshad 190Pakistan Razaq, Abdul/Abdur 148PakistanRRazeq, Abdul 177AfghanistanRRehman, Abdul 109AfghanistanRRehman, Abdul 190Pakistan Rehman, Hafiz Khalil ur 190Pakistan Rehman, Sajid-ur 148PakistanRRidha, Yazidi 93Tunisia Ridouane, Khalid 215France Rustam, 175Afghanistan NameNationalityReleasedSaeed, Hafiz Ehsan 190Pakistan Saeed, Muhammad 190Pakistan Safeesi, Abdul Sattar 190Pakistan Sagheer, Muhammad 208PakistanRSalahuddin, Ghazi 148PakistanRSalman, Mohamed bin 3Yemen Sarajudim 217AfghanistanRSassi, Mohammed Ben Sala 157Tunisia Sassi, Nizar 162France Sattar, Abdul 190Pakistan Saud, Abu 10Saudi Arabia Sen, Ibrahim 200Turkey Sen, Mesut 200Turkey Shaalan, Hani Abdo Muslih 3Yemen Shah, Rostum 107AfghanistanRShah, Sliman 216AfghanistanRShah, Sulaiman 216AfghanistanRShah, Syed Zia Hussain 190Pakistan Shaqroon, Ibrahim bin 121Morocco Sharofov, Rukmiddin 197Tajikistan Shehzada, Mullah 192AfghanistanRSidiq, Mohammed 208AfghanistanRSidiq, Muhammad 172AfghanistanRSultan, Zahid 190Pakistan NameNationalityReleasedUllah, Asad 145Afghanistan Utain, Riyad 3Yemen Uthman, Abdul Rahim Mohammad Uthman 3Yemen Uyar, Salih 200Turkey Uzel, Turgut 201Turkey 

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