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Report says U.S. secretly handing over detainees
Stars and Stripes ^ | August 29, 2008 | Stars and Stripes

Posted on 08/28/2008 6:30:52 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar

More than 200 militants returned to home countries

The United States military has secretly handed over more than 200 militants to the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries, nearly all in the past two years, as part of an effort to reduce the burden of detaining and interrogating foreign fighters captured in Iraq and Afghanistan, American military officials have told The New York Times.

The system is similar in some ways to the rendition program used by the Central Intelligence Agency since the Sept. 11 attacks to secretly transfer people suspected of being militants back to their home countries to be jailed and questioned, the Times reported in its Thursday editions.

But there are significant differences, the paper noted. It cited military officials as saying the prisoners can block their transfers to home countries. Officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross interview all detainees before they are returned to their home countries, Red Cross spokesman Bernard Barrett told the Times.

Many of these militants are initially held, without notification to the Red Cross, sometimes for weeks at a time, in secret at a camp in Iraq and another in Afghanistan run by American Special Operations forces, the military officials told the Times, adding that foreign intelligence officers had been allowed access to these camps to question militants as a prelude to the transfers.

In interviews, the military officials told the paper that the transfers represented an effort by the United States to find a better way to detain and interrogate the militants.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; detainees; enemycombatant; gwot; iraq; islam; mohammedanism

1 posted on 08/28/2008 6:30:52 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

Werks 4 me.


2 posted on 08/28/2008 6:36:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting Conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Damned if we do, damned if we don’t.

Only thing that will make the Left happy is if we send these guys home with a couple hundred thousand U.S. dollars, a new identity, and some special ops training so they can avoid getting captured the next time they decide to join the jihad.


3 posted on 08/28/2008 6:37:17 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Jet Jaguar

If it truly is “secretly” then you and I aren’t reading this.


4 posted on 08/28/2008 6:37:35 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Jet Jaguar

“Militants,” not “combatants.” Hm. If they contravene the Geneva Conventions, this could be A Good Thing.


5 posted on 08/28/2008 6:38:44 PM PDT by sionnsar (Obama? Bye-den! |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Gotta believe if I were a bad guy I’d rather be in U.S. custody as opposed to say Saudi or Egyptian or Pakistani control.
I think maybe our boys at least have a clue on international norms of guard behavior.
I’d rather wear ladies undies than wear electrodes connected to my nads.


6 posted on 08/28/2008 6:39:59 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Jet Jaguar; Travis McGee; Squantos; SLB

Many/most of these illegal combatants should have gotten a quick military tribunal and a hangman’s noose.

The fact that none have is absurd. It makes a mockery of Western Laws of War.


7 posted on 08/28/2008 6:39:59 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Obama: Carter's only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.)
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To: Cindy

This thread will self-destruct in five seconds....four....three....two....


8 posted on 08/28/2008 6:44:08 PM PDT by 50cal Smokepole (John Gard for Congress; WI 8th CD)
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To: Joe Boucher
Gotta believe if I were a bad guy I’d rather be in U.S. custody as opposed to say Saudi or Egyptian or Pakistani control.

I remember one of the news networks did an expose on American interrogation tactics. One of the more effective methods was threatening to send the detainees to their home countries where they get a real taste of torture.
9 posted on 08/28/2008 6:47:06 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting Conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
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To: Cindy

Reading what?

;0)


10 posted on 08/28/2008 6:50:06 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Obama: The presumptuous democratic nominee)
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To: FreedomPoster

“It makes a mockery of Western Laws of War.”

War? What war?


11 posted on 08/28/2008 6:59:17 PM PDT by 353FMG (What marxism and fascism could not destroy, liberalism did.)
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To: Cindy

“If it truly is “secretly” then you and I aren’t reading this.”

Reading what?


12 posted on 08/28/2008 7:03:24 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (If I knew 'everything', I wouldn't get on Free Republic.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

If they are doing this SECRETLY, why didn’t they just turn them into rose garden fertilizer? Now they will just kill more innocent people and U.S. soldiers....


13 posted on 08/28/2008 7:04:33 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Jet Jaguar

My humble apology.

You were first.


14 posted on 08/28/2008 7:04:47 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (If I knew 'everything', I wouldn't get on Free Republic.)
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To: UCANSEE2

First?

I have no idea what you are talking about!

:0)


15 posted on 08/28/2008 7:11:58 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Obama: The presumptuous democratic nominee)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Repatriated to Saudi?

Wow, I bet the prisoners are screaming about that! What they face on repatriation makes CLUB GITMO look like a cake walk.

They will talk now, and face their music or be released quite quickly.

The way the Saudis interrogate is interesting. They pick out one from a group, and the rest watch. The selected prisoner is asked a few questions , they ask him one he refuses to answer. Then they say if you do not answer, we chop of your head. He refuses, they chop off his head.

Everyone elese in the group talks.

If the selected one cooperates ab initio, everybody subsequently talks too.

Not that Club Gitmo need to be like that. I'm just sayin'.

This is why repatriation is criticized as being "like rendition."

I bet they are getting lots and lots of INTEL.

16 posted on 08/28/2008 7:22:27 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, (Ridicule Obama))
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To: Jet Jaguar; UCANSEE2; 50cal Smokepole

Replying to a “secret”-thread in secret reading nothing secretly.

10-4.


17 posted on 08/28/2008 7:25:23 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Jet Jaguar

I sure hope they had their rights read to them first!


18 posted on 08/29/2008 12:22:23 AM PDT by Islander7 ("Common sense and common decency are uncommon virtues among America's left.")
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To: Jet Jaguar
Officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross interview all detainees before they are returned to their home countries, Red Cross spokesman Bernard Barrett told the Times.

Some secret!

19 posted on 08/29/2008 12:30:19 AM PDT by airborne (Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.)
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