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Since last summer, the Pentagon has been conducting reviews of each of the 567 post-9/11 detainees being held at the U.S. naval base in Guant??namo Bay to determine whether they should continue to be designated "enemy combatants"--and thus subject to indefinite detention during wartime. U.S. officials tell TIME the tribunals have recommended that more than 36 of these detainees be reclassified as "nonenemy combatants"--in other words, free...
...each release order is put on hold until the CIA and other intelligence agencies have a chance to comb their files for additional incriminating evidence to present to the tribunal. Only if the tribunal then decides a second time that a detainee is eligible for release will the Pentagon actually sign off. A Pentagon spokesman would not comment on the more than 30 detainees whose fate is in limbo. But to critics of the Pentagon's treatment of detainees at Guant??namo, the continuing delays are inexcusable. Says Neal Sonnett, the American Bar Association's observer at Gitmo: "Some...
...supreme religious leader of Iraq's Shi'ite majority, the U.I.A. includes the country's strongest Shi'ite parties, among them the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (S.C.I.R.I.) and the Dawa Party, which have close links to Iran. It also includes such wild cards as former Pentagon favorite Ahmad Chalabi as well as representatives of Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shi'ite leader whose militias were fighting pitched battles with U.S. troops less than a year...
...this point, many Americans seem willing to call al-Hakim's bluff. But the Pentagon believes a precipitous U.S. withdrawal would condemn Iraq to a bloodbath wrought by Sunni insurgents against a weak central government that might then be tempted to seek help from Iran. That said, the U.S. is well aware that the Iraqis will probably demand that the Americans start making plans to leave. In November the CIA's departing station chief in Baghdad sent a cable to Washington predicting that the new government would insist on a schedule for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. A State Department...
...timetable for troop withdrawal is out of the question. That, at any rate, is what top U.S. officials told an influential Sunni clerical group in early January after the imams said they would consider calling off their boycott of the vote in return for a pullout schedule. But the Pentagon is accelerating plans to embed U.S. military advisers with Iraqi security forces in hopes of improving their combat capabilities so that they can take over for U.S. troops. "The most important goal is to get the Iraqis into the fight, not to get our numbers down," says a senior Pentagon...