Dozens of CIA ‘Ghost Prisoners’ Can’t Be Located
President Bush announced in 2006 that the CIA’s secret overseas prisons for terrorism suspects were temporarily closed. But he transferred only 14 of the suspected al-Qaida leaders to Guantanamo Bay; the whereabouts of another 30 or so prisoners have not been revealed, the Washington Post reports.
The newspaper’s own investigation found that some of the men were transferred to their home countries, and one other is being held in a U.S. military prison in Afghanistan. Human rights groups believe some of the remaining so-called “ghost prisoners” are still under CIA control.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it can’t find dozens of prisoners once believed to have been in CIA custody. “The ICRC remains gravely concerned by the fate of the persons previously held in the CIA detention program who remain unaccounted for,” said Red Cross spokesman Simon Schorno.
