Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul
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 On June 17th, 2004, [[Secretary of Defense [[Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged holding, in [[extrajudicial detention, an Iraqi named Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul.[1] He was of the category called "ghost prisoners", whose detention was not made public or reported to relevant governments. [2] He is an Iraqi [[Kurd who was suspected of membership in [[Ansar al-Islam, an Iraqi terrorist group with links to the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is believed to be responsible for beheading American [[Nicholas Berg and for attacks on coalition forces.[3] The [[CIA had transported him to covert detention in Afghanistan. However [[Jack Goldsmith, Assistant Attorney General, [[Office of Legal Counsel, at the Department of Justice, advised the CIA that he was protected by the Geneva Conventions, and covertly transporting him out of Iraq was a violation of the [[Geneva Conventions.[4] Rashul was the first [[ghost detainee to be publicly acknowledged by American authorities, [[Secretary of Defense [[Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged that he ordered Rashul to be imprisoned, off the books, at the request of [[Director of Central Intelligence|DCI [[George Tenet. [4] His current whereabouts and status is not known; he is not among the 14 High Value Detainees acknowledged to be transferred from CIA custody. [5] References
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