Another detainee, named Khadzhiev, was already in the cell.
Several of Durkin's clients, including a Sudanese detainee named Walid Ali, have refused to speak to him.
Without a key connecting detainee names to the corpse numbers, identifying the dead is difficult.
A Yemeni detainee named Ali al-Sharqawi kept a secret diary.
Most grievances cannot be checked and outcomes are not known because detainee names were redacted by the government under privacy laws.
Baher Azmy, a professor at Seton Hall Law School, in Newark, New Jersey, represents a Guantánamo detainee named Murat Kurnaz, a twenty-three-year-old Turkish citizen who was born in Germany.
But a close look at government records reveals that Fadl's name appears as a co-conspirator in a document enumerating the charges against a detainee named Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi — also known by the aliases Mohammed Salih Ahmed and Abu Khobaib al-Sudani.
For months, two committee staff members reviewed the cables, which described the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, whom the C.I.A. suspected was a high-ranking Al Qaeda member, and of a detainee named Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
Justice Department and Pentagon officials have chosen a troubling case for the first trial under the revisions that were adopted to the Military Commissions Act in 2009 — a Toronto-born Guantánamo Bay detainee named Omar Khadr.
It was an Egyptian detainee named Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed al Sawah who told interrogators about a course in improvised explosive devices given at the training camp, where he learned about "methods to destroy suspension bridges," his assessment says.
