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"Pentagon officials deny they were trying to hide the prisoner from the Red Cross, but concede he was classified as a type of enemy combatant that, under the Geneva Conventions, does not have to be immediately disclosed to the Red Cross."
I don't see the problem. Of course they hid him from the Red Cross; if he was classified as a prisoner whose existance should not be disclosed then they certainly wouldn't leave him out where the Red Cross could find him. I'm inclined to believe the word of the Pentagon when they say it was nonmalicious and a administrative mistake.
I don't like the connotation suggesting that Rumsfeld hid the prisoner in question. It sounds to me like the information presented by this prisoner was of such importance that he deserved special consideration, and Rumsfeld ordered that the prisoner be classified as such.
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