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.
Werks 4 me.
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.
If it truly is “secretly” then you and I aren’t reading this.
“Militants,” not “combatants.” Hm. If they contravene the Geneva Conventions, this could be A Good Thing.
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.
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.
This thread will self-destruct in five seconds....four....three....two....
Reading what?
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“It makes a mockery of Western Laws of War.”
War? What war?
“If it truly is “secretly” then you and I aren’t reading this.”
Reading what?
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....
My humble apology.
You were first.
First?
I have no idea what you are talking about!
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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.
Replying to a “secret”-thread in secret reading nothing secretly.
10-4.
I sure hope they had their rights read to them first!
Some secret!
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