Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul

Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul

Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul, nicknamed Triple-X by his American guards, was the first ghost detainee to be publicly acknowledged by American authorities.cite news
date=June 16, 2004
url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/16/ghost.prisoner/index.html
title=Pentagon: Iraqi held secretly at CIA request
publisher=CNN
author=Jamie McIntyre
accessdate=2007-06-18]

Captured by Kurdish forces in Iraq in June or July 2003, he was turned over to the CIA who believed he was a member of Ansar al-Islam. He was then moved to a prison in Afghanistan.

Office of Legal Counsel representative Jack L. Goldsmith informed Alberto R. Gonzales in October 2003 that Rashul was legally protected under the 4th Geneva Convention, and must legally be returned to Iraq.

On June 16, 2004 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged that he had ordered Rashul to be imprisoned without record, at the request of DCI George Tenet.

Rashul was nicknamed "Triple-X" because, since he was kept off the books, his guards never learned his real name. When some of the circumstance of his incarceration become public, it was suggested that the reason he had been secretly incarcerated for seven months, without being interrogated, was that he got lost. Because of the order to keep him off the books those who would have interrogated him forgot about him, or could not find him.

References

External links

* [http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20040617-secdef0881.html Transcript of a briefing, from Secretary Rumsfeld, where he answers questions on ghost detainees] , June 17, 2004
* [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/17/iraq/main624411.shtml Rumsfeld Ordered Prisoner Hidden] , CBS News, June 17, 2004
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1241793,00.html Rumsfeld ordered secret detention of Iraqi suspect] , "The Guardian", June 18, 2004
* [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/040628/28prison.htm Iraq's invisible man: A 'ghost' inmate's strange life behind bars] , US News and World Report, June 28, 2004
* [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/040621/21abughraib.htm Hiding a bad guy named Triple X: How the military treated some inmates at Abu Ghraib like 'ghosts'] , US News and World Report, June 28, 2004
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25239-2005Mar10.html Army, CIA Agreed on 'Ghost' Prisoners] , Washington Post, March 11, 2005


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