Pentagon Memo on Torture-Motivated Transfer Cited

By Ken Silverstein
The Los Angeles Times

Thursday 08 December 2005

A court filing describes a classified proposal to send a detainee away for information extraction.

Washington - Although Bush administration officials have denied that they transfer terrorism suspects to countries where they are likely to be abused, a classified memorandum described in a court case indicates that the Pentagon has considered sending a captured militant abroad to be interrogated under threat of torture.

The classified memo is summarized - its actual contents are blacked out - in a petition filed by attorneys for Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad, a detainee held by the Pentagon at its Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility.