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Thursday, March 24, 2005
THURSDAY'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS
From the New York Times: France Asking U.N. to Refer Darfur to International Court ("France, in a direct challenge to the United States, proposed a resolution on Wednesday referring war-crime cases from Sudan to the International Criminal Court. This presented Washington with the choice of validating a tribunal it strongly opposes or casting a politically awkward veto."); Bosnian Serb General Surrenders (To UN Tribunal); Guantanamo Detainees Make Their Case ("A 30-year-old Sudanese prisoner listened with barely concealed anger on Tuesday and slouched deeper into his seat as an Air Force officer told a military panel why the man remained a threat to the United States and should not be released from the prison camp here. The slight and scraggly bearded Sudanese, hands cuffed and feet shackled to the floor, is among more than 500 prisoners from the fighting in Afghanistan who remain here and whose cases are being reviewed under the latest military legal proceeding intended to reduce Guantánamo's prison population and meet the terms of a Supreme Court decision allowing them to challenge their detention.").
From the Washington Post: Army Documents Shed Light on CIA "Ghosting" ("Senior defense officials have described the CIA practice of hiding unregistered detainees at Abu Ghraib prison as ad hoc and unauthorized, but a review of Army documents shows that the agency's "ghosting" program was systematic and known to three senior intelligence officials in Iraq. Army and Pentagon investigations have acknowledged a limited amount of ghosting, but more than a dozen documents and investigative statements obtained by The Washington Post show that unregistered CIA detainees were brought to Abu Ghraib several times a week in late 2003, and that they were hidden in a special row of cells. Military police soldiers came up with a rough system to keep track of such detainees with single-digit identification numbers, while others were dropped off unnamed, unannounced and unaccounted for."); France Offers U.S. a Dilemma on Sudan.
From the Washington Post: Army Documents Shed Light on CIA "Ghosting" ("Senior defense officials have described the CIA practice of hiding unregistered detainees at Abu Ghraib prison as ad hoc and unauthorized, but a review of Army documents shows that the agency's "ghosting" program was systematic and known to three senior intelligence officials in Iraq. Army and Pentagon investigations have acknowledged a limited amount of ghosting, but more than a dozen documents and investigative statements obtained by The Washington Post show that unregistered CIA detainees were brought to Abu Ghraib several times a week in late 2003, and that they were hidden in a special row of cells. Military police soldiers came up with a rough system to keep track of such detainees with single-digit identification numbers, while others were dropped off unnamed, unannounced and unaccounted for."); France Offers U.S. a Dilemma on Sudan.
