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To: tejek who wrote (208756)	10/26/2004 5:31:57 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574295

Report: U.S. Sees Some Non-Iraqis as Geneva Exceptions Tue Oct 26, 2004 07:25 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Bush administration has decided that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in Iraq are not entitled to the protection of the Geneva Conventions, the New York Times reported Tuesday. According to unnamed administration officials who spoke with the newspaper, the opinion reached in recent months holds that there are exceptions to previous U.S. assertions that the Geneva Conventions apply to all prisoners taken in the Iraq war. Sunday's Washington Post said U.S. intelligence officials were transferring detainees out of Iraq for interrogation. In those cases, the Central Intelligence Agency had invoked a confidential Justice Department memo to justify its actions, the Post said. Continued............. reuters.com