U.S. Said to Hold More Foreigners in Iraq Fighting

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After raids in recent months that captured hundreds of insurgents in Iraq, the United States has significantly increased the number of prisoners it says are foreign fighters, a group the Bush administration contends are not protected by the Geneva Conventions, American officials said.

A Pentagon official said Friday that the United States was now holding 325 foreign fighters in Iraq, a number that the official said had increased by 140 since Nov. 7, just before the invasion of Falluja. Many of the non-Iraqis were captured in or around that city.

Many of them are suspected of links to Al Qaeda or the related terror networks supporting the insurgency in Iraq, senior Bush administration officials said this week.

Some of the non-Iraqis who were involved in the insurgency there could be transferred out of the country for indefinite detention elsewhere, the officials said, as they have been deemed by the Justice Department not to be entitled to protections of the Geneva Conventions

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/08/international/middleeast/08detain.html?hp&ex=1105160400&en=c6aefc8fc2f5ff3f&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[LynnTheDem]

1. WOW!!!! AMAZING!!! 325 non-Iraqis in Iraq!!!!

Now if we took California ...same geographical size as Iraq as the rightwingnut assholes love to remind us... I wonder how many people are LEGALLY living there but are NOT American citizens???

Think it beats 325?

I think so uh huh.

And btw, bush, YES actually, they ARE covered by the Geneva Conventions, as your own Supreme Court told you. You sick worse-than-Hussein prick.