Talk:Humud Dakhil Humud Sa'id Al-((Jad'an

In response to my question on their talk page, Geo Swan explained the utility of this redirect as follows: (permalink). Thryduulf (talk) 13:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

On April 20th, and May 15th, 2006, the DoD published its first two official lists of captives held in Guantanamo. Prior to the publication of these lists the DoD refused to identify the men and boys.

The first list was of the 668 men and boys who had had a Combatant Status Review Tribunal convened to review whether they were an "enemy combatant". The second list was supposed to be a comprehensive list of everyone held in Guantanamo.

Almost 100 individuals had their names spelled inconsistently on the two lists. Wow. How did that happen.

This man was one of over a dozen men who had parentheses in the DoD's official version of his name.

So, I disagree it was, it is, an implausible redirect.

Thousands of newspapers republished those official lists. Anyone looking at old references from 2006 could come across the old, apparently implausible names, and want to know who it really refered to.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 13:49, 17 September 2018 (UTC)