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The Guantánamo Bay files leak (also known as The Guantánamo Files or Gitmo Files)〔 began on 25 April 2011, when WikiLeaks, along with several independent news organizations, began publishing 779 formerly secret documents relating to detainees at the United States' Guantánamo Bay detention camp established in 2002 after its invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.〔 The documents consist of classified assessments, interviews, and internal memos about detainees, which were written by the Pentagon's Joint Task Force Guantanamo, headquartered at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The documents are marked "secret" and NOFORN (information that is not to be shared with representatives of other countries).〔 Media reports on the documents note that more than 150 innocent Afghans and Pakistanis, including farmers, chefs, and drivers, were held for years without charges.〔〔〔 The documents also reveal that some of the prison's youngest and oldest detainees, who include Mohammed Sadiq, an 89-year-old man, and Naqib Ullah, a 14-year-old boy, suffered from fragile mental and physical conditions.〔 The files contain statements from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the planner of the 9/11 attacks, who said that al-Qaeda possessed nuclear capacity and would use it to retaliate for any attack on Osama bin Laden.〔〔 The files also reveal the fate of wanted terrorist Mustafa Mohammed Fadhil, who had been quietly removed from the FBI's most wanted terrorists list in 2005.〔http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2011/04/27/20/us9sa-000713dp.source.prod_affiliate.91.pdf〕〔http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2011/04/28/05/us9ym-000041dp.source.prod_affiliate.91.pdf〕 ==Source of the leak== ''The New York Times'' said it received the documents from an anonymous source other than WikiLeaks,〔 and it shared them with other news outlets such as NPR and ''The Guardian''. WikiLeaks suggested on Twitter that the source might be Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a former associate.〔 WikiLeaks noted that "our first partner, ''The Telegraph'', published the Gitmo Files at 1:00 AM GMT, long before ''NYT'' or ''Guardian''."〔 Reuters speculated that the original source of the leak may have been Chelsea Manning, a United States soldier then known as Bradley Manning, who was detained for allegedly having leaked other material to WikiLeaks.〔〔 ''The Guardian'' reported that "the Gitmo files are the fifth (and very nearly the final) cache of data that disaffected U.S. soldier Bradley Manning is alleged to have turned over to the WikiLeaks website more than a year ago."〔 Before the time of Manning's alleged leak, WikiLeaks was already being reported and rumored to have Gitmo files.〔 The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) said the documents remained legally classified despite the leaks. It informed the lawyers who represent the prisoners in Guantanamo that they were not allowed to read the documents, which have been published by the ''New York Times'' and other major media outlets.〔 The U.S. government issued a statement: "It is unfortunate that ''The New York Times'' and other news organizations have made the decision to publish numerous documents obtained illegally by WikiLeaks concerning the Guantanamo detention facility."〔 The documents seem to be "Detainee Assessment Briefs" (DABs) written between 2002 and 2009 and "may or may not represent the current view of a given detainee."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guantanamo Bay files leak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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