Thursday, June 17, 2004
MSNBC - Pentagon confirms secret detention in Iraq
MSNBC - Pentagon confirms secret detention in Iraq: "WASHINGTON - At the request of CIA Director George Tenet, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered the military to secretly hold a suspected terrorist in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said.
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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."
- posted by liz @ 6/17/2004 10:50:00 AM
