U.S. Releases Names Of 558 Detained At Guantanamo Bay

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, April 19 -- The U.S. government released the first list Wednesday of detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- the most extensive accounting yet of the hundreds held there, nearly all of them labeled enemy combatants.

In all, 558 people were named in the list provided by the Pentagon in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Associated Press. They were among the first swept up in the U.S. global fight against terrorism for suspected links to al-Qaeda or the Taliban.

The list is the first official roster of Guantanamo Bay detainees who passed through the Combatant Status Review Tribunal process in 2004 and 2005 to determine whether they should be deemed enemy combatants.

The names of many detainees were disclosed March 3, when the Pentagon released about 5,000 pages of transcripts to the AP.