Seton Hall report, also known as the Denbeaux study, is any of several studies, published by the
Center for Policy and Research The Center for Policy and Research at Seton Hall University School of Law is a research organization that analyzes national policies and practices. Law students, participating in the Center as Research Fellows, work to identify factual patterns and ...
at
Seton Hall University Law School in the United States beginning in 2006, about the detainees and United States government policy related to operations at the
Guantánamo Bay detention camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...
. At a time when the government revealed little about these operations, the reports were based on analysis of data maintained and released by the Department of Defense. The director of the Law School's Center,
Mark P. Denbeaux
Mark P. Denbeaux (born July 30, 1943 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American attorney, professor, and author. He is a law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey and the Director of its Center for Policy and Researc ...
, supervised law student teams in their analysis and writing the studies.
The first study was ''Report on Guantanamo Detainees: A Profile of 517 Detainees through Analysis of Department of Defense Data'' (February 8, 2006).
By late 2009, Professor Denbeaux had supervised fifteen studies on Guantanamo for the Center for Policy and Research. The studies have been cited in both houses of Congress, for instance, by the
Senate Armed Services Committee
The Committee on Armed Services (sometimes abbreviated SASC for ''Senate Armed Services Committee'') is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of the nation's military, including the Department of Def ...
, and by national and international press.
Denbeaux and his son, Joshua Denbeaux, were listed as the lead names on the first and several succeeding studies. They have a law firm together and are the legal representatives for the Guantanamo detainees
Rafiq Bin Bashir Bin Jalud Al Hami
Rafiq Bin Bashir Bin Jalud al Hami (رافق بن بشر بن جالود الحامي) is a citizen of Tunisia, who was formerly held for over seven years without charge or trial in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
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and
Mohammed Abdul Rahman
Lotfi Bin Ali was a Tunisian whom the United States held in extrajudicial detention for over thirteen years in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
He was one of five men transferred to Kazakhstan in 2014.
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Studies
Detainees' profile
The ''Report on Guantanamo Detainees: A Profile of 517 Detainees through Analysis of Department of Defense Data February 8, 2006'', also known as the Denbeaux study (2006), was the first study on Guantanamo prepared under the supervision of Professor
Mark Denbeaux
Mark P. Denbeaux (born July 30, 1943 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American attorney, professor, and author. He is a law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey and the Director of its Center for Policy and Researc ...
of Seton Hall University, the director of its
Center for Policy and Research The Center for Policy and Research at Seton Hall University School of Law is a research organization that analyzes national policies and practices. Law students, participating in the Center as Research Fellows, work to identify factual patterns and ...
.
Denbeaux and his son Joshua Denbeaux, an attorney for two Guantánamo detainees, oversaw a statistical analysis by law students of the unclassified information available from the Department of Defense about the
Guantánamo Bay detainees. The study was published by Seton Hall University's Center for Policy and Research.
The students analyzed:
#Where the documents said the detainees were captured.
#Who the documents said captured the detainees.
#The relationship the documents alleged existed between the detainee and
al Qaeda
Al-Qaeda (; , ) is an Islamic extremist organization composed of Salafist jihadists. Its members are mostly composed of Arabs, but also include other peoples. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian and military targets in various countr ...
.
#The relationship the documents alleged existed between the detainee and the
Taliban
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.
Nat Hentoff
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of the ''
Village Voice
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*92% of the Guantanamo detainees had not been al-Qaeda fighters.
*only 5% of the Guantanamo detainees were captured by American forces.
*440 of 517 detainees (86%) appeared to have been captured by bounty hunters, in return for a $5,000 reward from the US for each prisoner.
The study reveals that the 92% of the detainees who were not alleged to be al-Qaeda fighters were alleged to be either al-Qaeda or Taliban members, or members of affiliated hostile groups. Of these "other affiliated groups," a second Center report notes that some of the groups are not included in the government's published lists of terrorist organizations.
The cited primary sources in the study did not include data on actual bounties. One example of a bounty was given in the references: that of
. The reference comes from an article in the ''
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The study says:
Several international news sources noticed this use of the possession of a model of watch as evidence against detainees at Guantanamo Bay with detainees "shocked" that wearing a cheap popular watch sold worldwide could be used against them when "millions and millions of people have these types of Casio watches".
s at Guantanamo all wore this model of watch
and described the features of his watch that signal the call to prayers to a devout Muslim
.