US `hid' inmates to speed transfer, official reported

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NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , WASHINGTON
Sunday, Oct 10, 2004,Page 6

The actions of the Central Intel-ligence Agency in keeping inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq off official rosters appeared to have been intended to speed their transfer to sites outside Iraq, where they would not be protected by the Geneva Conventions, the former commander of the joint interrogation center at the prison has told Army investigators.

The allegation by Lieutenant Colonel Steven Jordan in testimony in February was included in hundreds of pages of secret documents released on Friday by the Center for Public Integrity. Jordan said the approach had been authorized under an unwritten agreement between the CIA and Colonel Thomas Pappas, the top US military intelligence officer at the prison. The center said it had obtained the documents from a journalist, Osha Gray Davidson.

Two Army generals told Con-gress last month that at the CIA's request, Army jailers had failed to register dozens of detainees at Abu Ghraib in order to hide them from Red Cross inspectors. But Jordan said that the CIA's purpose had been to avoid anything that might have slowed moving them.

"They would not put them in the regular detainee process where you get fingerprinted, cause once a detainee did that, you're kinda in there three to six to eight months," Jordan said in his testimony at Camp Doha, Kuwait, on Feb. 21. <snip>

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/10/10/2003206319


Officer: CIA sought to thwart Geneva accords
Saturday, October 9, 2004
By DOUGLAS JEHL
THE NEW YORK TIMES

<snip> The allegation by Lt. Col. Steven Jordan, in testimony in February, was included in hundreds of pages of secret documents released yesterday by the Center for Public Integrity.

Jordan said the approach had been authorized under an unwritten agreement between the CIA and Col. Thomas Pappas, the top military intelligence officer at the prison.

The center said it had obtained the documents from a journalist, Osha Gray Davidson, a contributor to Rolling Stone magazine. <snip>

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/194468_cia09.html

[ogradda]

1. o that makes it all right then.

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