Somali detainees at Guantanamo Bay Somali detainees at Guantanamo Bay There were a total of four Somali detainees in Guantanamo of a total of 778 detainees that have been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new suspects, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of January 2008 the camp population stand at approximately 285. When the DoD was forced to publish its first official list of detainees, on May 15,
Guantanamo Bay detainment camp library "Koran", and wasn't interested in western literature. During his cross examination Khadr's Defense counsel asked Welner to consult his notes, and read out other books he knew Khadr had borrowed from the library. According to Carol Rosenberg, writing in the "Miami Herald", Welner acknowledged Khadr had also borrowed: "Nelson Mandela’s "[Long] Walk to Freedom", Barack Obama’s "Dreams of My Father", Ishmael Beah’s "", Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series plus unnamed thrillers by John Grisham and steamy novels by Danielle Steel." Guantanamo Bay detainment camp library The library made available to detainee's held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay