Detainee Operations manual suggests that female prisoners could be taken in rendtion flights

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Female Al Qaeda or Taliban fighters? That's odd.

"Page 22 (Figure 208): There are 4 documented phases of processing of someone captured or turned over to US authorities, beginning with the initial scnreeing and confiscation of weapons and ending with interrogation. Each phase is given a duration of time in the diagram; for the interrogation phase, the duration is given as 6 to 36 months. What intelligence can be gained from a detainee after 3 years of isolation from his or her information sources?

Page 23: Detainees are to be categorized according to their intelligence value. There are four categories, the fourth being "(1)“D” – Other detainees who have no information of intelligence value." However, the document goes on to say that "(1)The fact or determination that a detainee has no information of intelligence value has nothing to do with their detention status and should not be linked to a determination of transfer and release."

Page 95 (Field expediant restraints): 2.e. "a.Sand bags as hoods restrict airflow and should be used as a last resort. In some areas of the world, the detainees’ own headgear can be used as an ideal hood device, i.e. turbans and/or burqas. " "

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Detainee_Operations_in_a_Joint_Environment
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