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| US 'gives Red Cross inmate details' |
| By english.aljazeera.net |
| Published: 08/24/2009 |
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The Obama administration has starting to lift its veil of secrecy on who is being held prisoner in Iraq and Afghanistan. Military officials told The New York Times that International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) officials are now being told who is being held in Special Operation secret camps. Unlike the secret prisons run by the CIA that President Barack Obama ordered closed in January, the US military continues to operate the Special Operations camps, which it calls temporary screening sites, in Balad, Iraq, and Bagram, Afghanistan. As many as 30 to 40 foreign prisoners have been held at the camp in Iraq at any given time, military officials said; they did not provide an estimate for the Afghan camp but suggested that the number was smaller. The ICRC is allowed access to almost all American military prisons and battlefield detention sites in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the Special Operations camps have been excluded. Read More. |
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