Rumsfeld Ordered Secret Arrest in Iraq

[phillybri]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20040617/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/shadow_prisoners_3

WASHINGTON - At the request of CIA (news - web sites) Director George Tenet, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ordered the military to secretly hold a suspected terrorist in Iraq (news - web sites), a Pentagon (news - web sites) spokesman said.

The suspected terrorist has been held since October without being given an identification number and without the International Committee of the Red Cross being notified, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said. Both conditions violate the Geneva Accords on treatment of prisoners of war.

Rumsfeld ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to have the prisoner secretly detained on the day last October, when Tenet made the request, Whitman said.

"The director of central intelligence requested he not be assigned an internment serial number while the CIA worked to determnine his precise disposition," Whitman said.

[lancdem]

1. The war between the Pentagon and the CIA intensifies

This is getting verrrry interesting.

[boobooday]

2. The World According to Rumsfeld.

I do think the counter-coup has begun!






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[Moderator]

3. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=626936