On May 15, 2006, the United States Department of Defense acknowledged that there have been 7 Uzbek detainees held in Guantanamo.
The Bush administration asserted that all detainees taken in the "global war on terror" could be held there, in extrajudicial detention, without revealing their names.
The Department of Defense filed justifications for why they should not be obliged to release the information the Associated Press requested.
The Department of Defense exhausted their legal appeals and were forced, by a court order, to release the identities of all the Guantanamo detainees.
[4] Dermot Ahern, the Minister of Justice, asked reporters to respect the men's privacy.