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Home Front: WoT
ICRC accuses US of blocking access to secret detainees
2006-05-13
The United States has again refused the International Committee of the Red Thingy Cross (ICRTC) access to terrorism suspects held in secret detention centres, the humanitarian agency said on Friday. The overnight statement was issued after talks in Washington between ICRTC President Jakob Kellenberger and senior officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.

“Mr Kellenberger deplored the fact that the US authorities had not moved closer to granting the ICRTC access to persons held in undisclosed locations,” the Geneva-based agency said. Kellenberger said: “No matter how legitimate the grounds for detention, there exists no right to conceal a person’s whereabouts or to deny that he or she is being detained.” The former senior Swiss diplomat said that the ICRTC would continue to seek access to such people as a matter of priority.

The main objective of his annual visit this week was for the ICRTC to be granted access to “all persons held by the US in the context of the fight against terrorism, an issue he first raised with the US government over two years ago,” the agency said.
Posted by:Fred

#4  Just how do they know we have the people they alledge that we do?

Conversation:

ICRC: "We want to look at the holding cells as SooperSekrit Base, you have Hadji Jihadi there and are holding him in secret"

US Intel: (Makes quick phone call) "Sure, come inspect the facility. We dont have a prisoner of war there by that name."

ICRC: "You better be treating him well and stop lying, you are holding him, a leaker in your CIA said you have him!"

US Intel: "OK I'll check on a person by that name, please wait" (goes into other room with a secure phone).

(US Intel comes back into the room an hour later)

US Intel: About Mr Hadji Jihadi? We found him. He left there by and we dropped him off at his home town, with all the rights and treatment he was due under the rules of the original Geneva Convention. We can take you to him now, but you're going to need this. (Hand the ICRC a spatula). You see, he was a convicted illegal combatant and had no rights, so we dropped him off at his village from 30,000 ft out of the back of a C-17. Sans parachute. Is there anyone else you wish to discuss?

US Intel motions for an assistant to escort the ICRC person out once they have finished fainting.
Posted by: Oldspook   2006-05-13 12:18  

#3  Is this the same ICRC which kicked the Israeli version out of its membership but keeps in the Palestinian one which regularly has used Red Crescent marked vehicles and facilities to move terrorists and their weapons around?
Posted by: Thesing Graviting9554   2006-05-13 10:37  

#2  Sympathy metre is looking good, maybe itn my new monitor.
Posted by: 6   2006-05-13 10:06  

#1  If they are not warriors of a legal nation rather terrorists then the ICRC has no business worrying about those non-state actors. They should just STFU!
Posted by: 3dc   2006-05-13 00:33  

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