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LONDON - A coalition of human rights groups is demanding the United States account for 39 terror suspects it believes have been secretly imprisoned and published their names in a report being released Thursday. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and four other groups have drawn up a list of 39 so-called "ghost detainees" — people they claim are held by U.S. authorities and are still missing. "What we're asking is where are these 39 people now, and what's happened to them since they 'disappeared'?" Joanne Mariner of Human Rights Watch said in a statement. CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said "there's...

September 7, 2004 U.S. Secretly Detained bin Laden Brother-in-Law For Four Months After Purported May 1995 Deportation Controversial 9/11 Commissioner Linked To Case By FOIA Documents By J.M. Berger INTELWIRE.com The U.S. government secretly detained Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law for four months in 1995, after the INS announced he had already been deported to Jordan, according to documents obtained by INTELWIRE using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Jordan deportation was authorized by then-Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, at the request of Secretary of State Warren Christopher. A member of the independent commission investigating the September 11 attacks, Gorelick...

Agency refuses to disclose identities and locations WASHINGTON - Pentagon investigators believe the CIA is holding as many as 100 'ghost detainees' in Iraq without disclosing their identities or locations, many times more than previously disclosed, a senior Defence Department official has told Congress. However, the precise number of undisclosed prisoners and the conditions in which they have been held remain a mystery, said General Paul Kern, because CIA officials have refused to cooper ate with Pentagon investigators, denying repeated requests for documents and information on the detainees. The CIA apparently has held between a dozen and three dozen unregistered...