NLEC is an acronym for No Longer Enemy Combatant, U.S. military term for Guantanamo captives whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal determined they should not have been classified as "enemy combatants". The armed forces of the United States of America consist of the United States Army United States Navy United States Air Force United States Marine Corps United States Coast Guard Note: The United States Coast Guard has both military and law enforcement functions. ... Detainees upon arrival at Camp X-Ray, January 2002 Guantánamo Bay detainment camp serves as a joint military prison and interrogation camp under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) and has occupied a portion of the United States Navys base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and make it easier to understand, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The term unlawful combatant (also unlawful enemy combatant or unprivileged combatant/belligerent) denotes people denied the protection of the Geneva Conventions; those to whom protection is recognised as due are referred to as lawful combatants. ...

Thirty-eight detainees were finally classified as "NLECs".^[1] The fifth Denbeaux report, "No-hearing hearings", reported that an additional three Combatant Status Review Tribunals determined that captives should not have been determined to have been enemy combatants, only to have their recommendation overturned.^[2] The Denbeaux study was a study lead by Professor Mark Denbeaux of Seton Hall University. ... No-hearing hearings is the title of a report published by Professor Mark P. Denbeaux of the Seton Hall University School of Law, his son Joshua Denbeaux, and some of his law students, on October 17, 2006. ...

The Washington Post has published a list of the names of 30 of the 38 individuals who were determined not to have been enemy combatants.^[1] None of the detainees who were determined not to have been enemy combatants were released right away. Ten of the detainees who had been determined not to have been enemy combatants were allowed to move to the more comfortable Camp Iguana. Others, such as Sami Al Laithi, remained in solitary confinement. ... Camp Iguana is a small compound in the detainment camp complex on the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ... Sami Al Laithi is an Egyptian citizen. ...

The delay in the release of some of the detainees was due to considerations of the detainees safety. Some of the detainees could not be returned to their home countries, out of fears of retaliation from their fellow citizens, or the governments of their countries. Some, like Al Laithi, were returned to their home countries after the U.S. secured a promise that they would not be punished by their home countries. Others, like five of Uyghur detainees in Guantanamo, were released when the U.S. found a third country which would accept them.^[3][4] The United States held approximately two dozen Uyghurs detained in Guantanamo. ...

Three further captives who had been determined not to have been enemy combatants, who had been occupants of Camp Iguana since May 2005, were released in Albania in November 2006.^[5][6][7]

See also

• Seton Hall study

Seton Hall report refers to several studies into the handling of detainees taken to Guantánamo Bay done by professor Mark P. Denbeaux of the Seton Hall University School of Law, and some of his law students. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Guantanamo Bay Detainees Classifed as "No Longer Enemy Combatants", Washington Post
2. ^ Mark Denbeaux et al, No-hearing hearings", November 17, 2006
3. ^ Albania takes Guantanamo Uighurs, BBC, May 6, 2006
4. ^ Freed from Guantanamo, 5 face danger in Albania, Boston Globe, May 18, 2006
5. ^ U.S. Releases Three Men From Terror Camp In Guantanamo, All Headline News, November 17, 2006
6. ^ Albania Agrees To Resettle Three Detainees from Guantanamo, US State Department, November 20, 2006
7. ^ Pentagon sends Guantánamo captives to Albania, Miami Herald, November 17, 2006