Rumsfeld Says U.S. Hid Iraqi Prisoner from Red Cross

[54anickel]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5451344

second to the last paragraph is a puker! :puke:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged on Thursday that he ordered the secret detention of an Iraqi terrorism suspect held for more than seven months near Baghdad without notifying the Red Cross.

Rumsfeld told reporters CIA Director George Tenet asked him last November "to take custody of an Iraqi national who was believed to be a high-ranking member of Ansar al-Islam," which the United States has called a terrorist group.

"And we did so. We were asked to not immediately register the individual (with the International Committee of the Red Cross). And we did that," Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon briefing hours after President Bush again voiced support for the beleaguered Pentagon chief.

The Iraqi man remains in custody, and Rumsfeld said he has been treated humanely.

Rumsfeld did not explain the reasons for his actions, but added that "we are in the processing of registering" the man, whom he did not identify, with the Geneva-based ICRC.

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[LiberalVoice]

1. "Rumsfeld said he has been treated humanely."

Bullshit. Then why didn't they register him right away? If they will torture people who aren't terrorist's, does anyone believe they won't torture men that were so important to capture that the Red Cross wasn't told?

And what pisses me off even more is all the dumb fuckin Murkans who are eating this shit up.

Edited for sapelling.(Yeah I spelled it wrong on purpose) :P

[lovedems]

2. So I guess since George Tenet asked him to break the laws

of the Geneva Convention, he happily obliged? Why do I sense we are at the beginning of many "It's the CIA/Tenets fault" excuses?

[54anickel]

3. Guess Tenet is the perfect scapegoat now that he's on his way out. Yes,

I agree, this seems like the beginning of a long list of "it's Tenets fault-that's why we let him go".