From: "John Beamish" 

One of Phil Payne's comments has been that [pick a proportion] of those
incarcerated at Gitmo are simply there because of rivalries, deliberate
identification of rivals as terrorists, etc.

Judging by everything that has happened since then, he's clearly been correct.

But what about those who are cleared?  Suddenly things get rather murky.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042801145
_pf.html
[snip]
In many cases, the prisoners' countries do not want them back. Yemen, for
instance, has balked at accepting some of the 106 Yemeni nationals at
Guantanamo by challenging the legality of their citizenship.

Another major obstacle: U.S. laws that prevent the deportation of people to
countries where they could face torture or other human rights abuses, as in
the case of 17 Chinese Muslim separatists who have been cleared for release
but fear they could be executed for political reasons if returned to China.

Compounding the problem are persistent refusals by the United States, its
European allies and other countries to grant asylum to prisoners who are
stateless or have no place to go.

"In general, most countries simply do not want to help," said
John B. Bellinger III, legal adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice. "Countries believe this is not their problem. They think they
didn't contribute to Guantanamo, and therefore they don't have to be part
of the solution."
[snip]

So, basically, the US created the problem of innocents being incarcerated.  Now what.

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