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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://www.tampatrib.com/News/MGAOI3BMAUD.html CIA, Military Keep Off-Limits Jails Throughout World By DANA PRIEST and JOE STEPHENS The Washington Post Published: May 16, 2004In Afghanistan, the CIA's secret U.S. interrogation center in Kabul is known as ``The Pit,'' named for its despairing conditions. In Iraq, the most important prisoners are kept in a huge hangar near the runway at Baghdad International Airport, say U.S. government officials, counterterrorism experts and others. In Qatar, U.S. forces have ferried some Iraqi prisoners to a remote jail on the gigantic U.S. air base in the desert. The Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where a unit of U.S. soldiers abused prisoners, is just the largest and suddenly most notorious in a worldwide constellation of detention centers - many of them secret and all off-limits to public scrutiny - that the U.S. military and CIA have operated in the name of counterterrorism or counterinsurgency operations since the Sept. 11 attacks. These prisons and jails are sometimes as small as shipping containers and as large as the sprawling Guantanamo Bay complex in Cuba. They are part of an elaborate CIA and military infrastructure whose purpose is to hold suspected terrorists or insurgents for interrogation and safekeeping while avoiding U.S. or international court systems, where proceedings and evidence against the accused would be aired in public. Some are held by foreign governments at the informal request of the United States. ``The number of people who have been detained in the Arab world for the sake of America is much more than in Guantanamo Bay. Really, thousands,'' said Najeeb Nuaimi, a former justice minister of Qatar who is representing the families of dozens of prisoners. Three Separate Systems The largely hidden array includes three systems that rarely overlap: the Pentagon-run network of prisons, jails and holding facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo and elsewhere; small and secret CIA-run facilities where top al- Qaida and other figures are kept; and interrogation rooms of foreign intelligence services - some with documented records of torture - to which the U.S. government delivers or ``renders'' mid- or low-level terrorism suspects for questioning. More than 9,000 people are held by U.S. authorities overseas, according to Pentagon figures and estimates by intelligence experts, the vast majority under military control. The detainees have no conventional legal rights: no access to a lawyer; no chance for an impartial hearing; and at least in the case of prisoners held in cellblock 1A at Abu Ghraib, no apparent guarantee of humane treatment accorded prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions or civilians in U.S. jails. Although some of those held by the military in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo have had visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross, some of the CIA's detainees have, in effect, disappeared, according to interviews with former and current national security officials and to the Army's report of abuses at Abu Ghraib. The CIA's ``ghost detainees,'' as they were called by members of the 800th MP Brigade, were routinely held by the soldier-guards at Abu Ghraib ``without accounting for them, knowing their identities, or even the reason for their detention,'' the report says. These phantom captives were ``moved around within the facility to hide them'' from Red Cross teams, a tactic that was ``deceptive, contrary to Army doctrine, and in violation of international law.'' CIA employees are under investigation by the Justice Department and the CIA inspector general's office in connection with the death of three captives in the past six months. Two died while under interrogation in Iraq, and a third was being questioned by a CIA contract interrogator in Afghanistan. A CIA spokesman said the hiding of detainees was inappropriate. He wouldn't comment further. `A Long History' None of the arrangements that permit U.S. personnel to kidnap, transport, interrogate and hold foreigners are ad hoc or unauthorized, including the so-called renderings. ``People tend to regard it as an extra-judicial kidnapping; it's not,'' former CIA officer Peter Probst said. ``There is a long history of this. It has been done for decades. It's absolutely legal.'' In fact, every aspect of this new universe - including maintenance of covert airlines to fly prisoners from place to place, interrogation rules and the legal justification for holding foreigners without due process afforded most U.S. citizens - has been developed by military or CIA lawyers, vetted by Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel and, depending on the issue, approved by White House General Counsel's Office or the president himself. In some cases, such as determining whether a U.S. citizen should be designated an enemy combatant who can be held without charges, the president makes the final decision, said Alberto R. Gonzales, counsel to the president. Abu Ghraib prison - where photographs were taken that have enraged the Arab world and rocked U.S. political and military leadership - held 6,000 to 7,000 detainees at the time of the documented abuse. Today, it and other sites in Iraq hold more than 8,000 prisoners, U.S. and coalition officials said. They range from those believed to have played key roles in the insurgency to some held on suspicion of petty crimes. Far better known has been the Defense Department's facility at Guantanamo Bay. The open-air camps there house about 600 detainees, flown in from around the world over the past two years. Secrecy there remains tight, with detainees and most of the facilities off-limits to visitors. Before the U.S. military was imprisoning and interrogating people in Afghanistan and Iraq, the CIA was scooping up suspected al-Qaida leaders in such far-off places as Pakistan, Yemen and Sudan. Today, the CIA probably holds two to three dozen captives around the world, knowledgeable current and former officials say. Among them are al-Qaida leaders Khalid Sheik Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh in Pakistan and Abu Zubaida. The CIA is also in charge of interrogating Saddam Hussein, believed to be in Baghdad. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. 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