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Jamal Kiyemba, also known as Jamal Abdullah, is a Ugandan citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, on suspicion of being a terrorist. His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 701. The Department of Defense reports he was born on April 22, 1979, in Bunamwaya, Uganda.
The US Department of Defense was forced, by court order, to release the names of the captives taken in the "war on terror" who were held in Guantanamo. On April 20, 2006 they released a list of 558 names, nationalities and ID numbers, of all the captives whose status as "enemy combatants" had been reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal. Twenty-five days later they released a list of 759 names, nationalities, ID numbers, dates of birth, and places of birth, of all captives who had been held in military custody in Guantanamo.
Kiyemba was named inconsistently on various official documents: