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{{Short description|Iraqi held by the CIA}}
'''Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul''', nicknamed '''Triple-X''' by his [[United States|American]] guards, was the first [[ghost detainee]] to be publicly acknowledged by American authorities.<ref name=Cnn20040616>
{{cite news
| date=June 16, 2004
| url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/16/ghost.prisoner/index.html
| title=Pentagon: Iraqi held secretly at CIA request
| publisher=[[CNN]]
| author=Jamie McIntyre
| author-link=Jamie McIntyre
| access-date=2007-06-18
}}</ref>

Captured by [[Kurd]]ish forces in [[Iraq]] in June or July 2003, he was turned over to the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] who believed he was a member of [[Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan|Ansar al-Islam]]. He was then moved to a [[CIA prison system|CIA prison in Afghanistan]].<ref name="mayer">[[Jane Mayer|Mayer, Jane]], "[[The Dark Side (book)|The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals]]", 2008. p. 239</ref>

[[Office of Legal Counsel]] representative [[Jack L. Goldsmith]] informed  [[Alberto R. Gonzales]] in October 2003 that Rashul was legally protected under the [[Geneva convention|4th Geneva Convention]], and must legally be returned to Iraq.

On June 16, 2004 [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] acknowledged that he had ordered Rashul to be imprisoned without record, at the request of [[Director of Central Intelligence|DCI]] [[George Tenet]].

Rashul was nicknamed "Triple-X" because, since he was kept off the books, his guards never learned his real name. When some of the circumstance of his incarceration became public, it was suggested that the reason he had been secretly incarcerated for seven months, without being interrogated, was that he got lost. Because of the order to keep him off the books those who would have interrogated him forgot about him, or could not find him.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A756-2004Jun23_2.html|title=U.S. Struggled Over How Far to Push Tactics. Documents Show Back-and-Forth on Interrogation Policy| work=The Washington Post | author=Dana Priest and Bradley Graham| date=June 24, 2004}}</ref> His whereabouts since 2004 are unknown.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/02/AR2005040209766.html |title=Memo Lets CIA Take Detainees Out of Iraq |author=Dana Priest |work=The Washington Post |date=October 24, 2004 |access-date=March 25, 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20041025000000/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/02/AR2005040209766.html |archive-date=October 25, 2004}} [https://www.religionnewsblog.com/9101/memo-lets-cia-take-detainees-out-of-iraq Alt URL]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20040617-secdef0881.html Transcript of a briefing, from Secretary Rumsfeld, where he answers questions on ghost detainees], June 17, 2004
*[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rumsfeld-ordered-prisoner-hidden/ Rumsfeld Ordered Prisoner Hidden], [[CBS News]], June 17, 2004
*[https://www.theguardian.com/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1241793,00.html Rumsfeld ordered secret detention of Iraqi suspect], ''[[The Guardian]]'', June 18, 2004
*[https://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/040628/28prison.htm Iraq's invisible man: A 'ghost' inmate's strange life behind bars], [[U.S. News & World Report]], June 28, 2004
*[https://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/040621/21abughraib.htm Hiding a bad guy named Triple X: How the military treated some inmates at Abu Ghraib like 'ghosts'], [[U.S. News & World Report]], June 28, 2004
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25239-2005Mar10.html Army, CIA Agreed on 'Ghost' Prisoners], [[Washington Post]], March 11, 2005
*[[David Weissbrodt]], Amy Bergquist: [https://web.archive.org/web/20060907051341/http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/iss19/weissbrodt.htm Extraordinary Rendition: A Human Rights Analysis ]

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