MILITARY

Report offers details about Guantanamo detainees on way out

Associated Press
Published | Updated

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2013 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, dawn arrives at the now closed Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility for al-Qaida and Taliban militants who were captured after the Sept. 11 attacks at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Following a lengthy tug-of-war with Capitol Hill, the Pentagon has given one senator the first-ever, unclassified report detailing the suspected militant backgrounds of more than 100 detainees at or recently released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, a report that will likely fuel debate over shutting it down.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) (The Associated Press)

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2013 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, dawn arrives at the now closed Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility for al-Qaida and Taliban militants who were captured after the Sept. 11 attacks at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Following a lengthy tug-of-war with Capitol Hill, the Pentagon has given one senator the first-ever, unclassified report detailing the suspected militant backgrounds of more than 100 detainees at or recently released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, a report that will likely fuel debate over shutting it down.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) (The Associated Press)

Following a lengthy tug-of-war with Capitol Hill, the Pentagon has given a GOP senator an unclassified report detailing the suspected militant backgrounds of more than 100 detainees held or recently released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

The report that Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire shared with The Associated Press will likely fuel debate over shutting it down.

It tells the story of detainees suspected of being bodyguards for former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. But it also tells the stories of low-level militants released after being detained for decades without charge.

There are 76 detainees left at the prison. Ayotte says 93 percent of the detainees who were still there as of late last year have been assessed as high risk for re-engagement in terrorism.