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On June 17th, 2004, [[Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] acknowledged holding an [[Iraq]]i "[[ghost prisoner]]" named '''Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul'''.<ref name=DoDRumsfeldBriefing20040617>
On June 17th, 2004, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged holding, in extrajudicial detention, an Iraqi named '''Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul'''.<ref name=DoDRumsfeldBriefing20040617>
{{cite news
{{cite news
| url=http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20040617-secdef0881.html  
| url=http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20040617-secdef0881.html  
| title=Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and General Peter Pace, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
| title=Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and General Peter Pace, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
| publisher=[[United States Department of Defense]]
| publisher=United States Department of Defense
| author=[[Donald Rumsfeld]]
| author=Donald Rumsfeld
| date=June 17, 2004
| date=June 17, 2004
| accessdate=2008-05-17
| accessdate=2008-05-17
| quote=
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}}</ref><ref name=CbsNews20040617>
}}</ref>   He was of the category called "ghost prisoners", whose detention was not made public or reported to relevant governments. <ref name=Wapo20050311>
{{cite news
| url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/17/iraq/main624411.shtml
| title=Rumsfeld Ordered Prisoner Hidden
| publisher=[[CBS News]]
| author=
| date=June 17, 2004
| accessdate=2008-05-23
| quote=
}}</ref><ref name=UsNews20040628>
{{cite news
| url=http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/040628/28prison.htm
| title=Iraq's invisible man: A 'ghost' inmate's strange life behind bars
| publisher=[[US News and World Report]]
| author=
| date=June 28, 2004
| accessdate=2008-05-17
| quote=
}}</ref><ref name=Wapo20050311>
{{cite news
{{cite news
| url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25239-2005Mar10.html  
| url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25239-2005Mar10.html  
| title=Army, CIA Agreed on 'Ghost' Prisoners
| title=Army, CIA Agreed on 'Ghost' Prisoners
| page=A16
| page=A16
| publisher=[[Washington Post]]
| publisher=Washington Post
| author=[[Josh White]]
| author=Josh White
| date=March 11, 2005
| date=March 11, 2005
| accessdate=2008-05-17
| accessdate=2008-05-17
| quote=
| quote=
}}</ref>
}}</ref>
He is an Iraqi [[Kurd]] who was suspected of membership in [[Ansar al-Islam]]. The [[CIA]] had transported him to covert detention in [[Afghanistan]].  However [[Jack Goldsmith]], a senior lawyer at the Department of Justice, advised the CIA that he was protected by the Geneva Conventions, and covertly transporting him out of Iraq was a violation of the [[Geneva Conventions]].
He is an Iraqi Kurd who was suspected of membership in Ansar al-Islam, an Iraqi terrorist group with links to the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is believed to be responsible for beheading American Nicholas Berg and for attacks on coalition forces.<ref name=UsNews20040628>
 
Rashul was the first [[ghost detainee]] to be publicly acknowledged by American authorities,  [[Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] acknowledged that he ordered Rashul to be imprisoned, off the books, at the request of [[Director of Central Intelligence|DCI]] [[George Tenet]]. 
 
Since he was kept him off the books, his guards never learned his real name. 
So they nicknamed him "Triple-X", the code name of a character from a 2004 spy movie.<ref name=USNews20040620>
{{cite news
{{cite news
| url=http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/040621/21abughraib.htm  
| url=http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/040628/28prison.htm  
| title=Hiding a bad guy named Triple X: How the military treated some inmates at Abu Ghraib like 'ghosts'
| title=Iraq's invisible man: A 'ghost' inmate's strange life behind bars
| publisher=[[US News and World Report]]
| publisher=US News and World Report
| author=[[Edward T. Pound]]
| author=
| date=June 13, 2004
| date=June 28, 2004
| accessdate=2008-05-17
| accessdate=2008-05-17
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}}</ref> The CIA had transported him to covert detention in Afghanistan.  However Jack Goldsmith, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, at the Department of Justice, advised the CIA that he was protected by the Geneva Conventions, and covertly transporting him out of Iraq was a violation of the Geneva Conventions.<ref name=WaPo2004-10-24>{{citation
 
| author = Dana Priest
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.  The order to keep him off the books caused those who would have interrogated him forgot about him, or couldn't find him. <ref name=TheGuardian20040618>
| title = Memo Lets CIA Take Detainees Out of Iraq: Practice Is Called Serious Breach of Geneva Conventions
{{cite news
| journal = Washington Post
| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1241793,00.html
| date = October 24, 2004
| title=Rumsfeld ordered secret detention of Iraqi suspect
| url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57363-2004Oct23.html}}</ref>
| publisher=[[The Guardian]]
Rashul was the first ghost detainee to be publicly acknowledged by American authorities,  Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged that he ordered Rashul to be imprisoned, off the books, at the request of Director of Central Intelligence|DCI George Tenet.  <ref name=WaPo2004-10-24 />
| author=[[Julian Borger]]
| date=Friday June 18, 2004
| accessdate=2008-05-17
}}</ref>


His current whereabouts and status is not known; he is not among the 14 High Value Detainees acknowledged to be transferred from CIA custody. <ref>{{citation
| title = List of Likely CIA Prisoners Who Are Still Missing
| author = Dafna Linzer | journal = ProPublica | date = April 22, 2009
| url = http://www.propublica.org/article/list-of-likely-cia-prisoners-who-are-still-missing-422}}</ref>
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On June 17th, 2004, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged holding, in extrajudicial detention, an Iraqi named Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul.[1] He was of the category called "ghost prisoners", whose detention was not made public or reported to relevant governments. [2] He is an Iraqi Kurd who was suspected of membership in Ansar al-Islam, an Iraqi terrorist group with links to the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is believed to be responsible for beheading American Nicholas Berg and for attacks on coalition forces.[3] The CIA had transported him to covert detention in Afghanistan. However Jack Goldsmith, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, at the Department of Justice, advised the CIA that he was protected by the Geneva Conventions, and covertly transporting him out of Iraq was a violation of the Geneva Conventions.[4] Rashul was the first ghost detainee to be publicly acknowledged by American authorities, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged that he ordered Rashul to be imprisoned, off the books, at the request of Director of Central Intelligence|DCI George Tenet. [4]

His current whereabouts and status is not known; he is not among the 14 High Value Detainees acknowledged to be transferred from CIA custody. [5]

References

  1. Donald Rumsfeld. Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and General Peter Pace, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States Department of Defense, June 17, 2004. Retrieved on 2008-05-17.
  2. Josh White. Army, CIA Agreed on 'Ghost' Prisoners, Washington Post, March 11, 2005, p. A16. Retrieved on 2008-05-17.
  3. Iraq's invisible man: A 'ghost' inmate's strange life behind bars, US News and World Report, June 28, 2004. Retrieved on 2008-05-17.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Dana Priest (October 24, 2004), "Memo Lets CIA Take Detainees Out of Iraq: Practice Is Called Serious Breach of Geneva Conventions", Washington Post
  5. Dafna Linzer (April 22, 2009), "List of Likely CIA Prisoners Who Are Still Missing", ProPublica