US transferred foreign detainees for interrogation: NY Times

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US military secretly has sent more than 200 foreign detainees captured in Iraq and Afghanistan to be interrogated in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries over the past few years, The New York Times reported Thursday.

The daily wrote that the program bears many similarities to one run since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks by the Central Intelligence Agency. That program also secretly transferred people suspected of being militants back to their home countries to be jailed and questioned.

The Times cited as its source for the story "interviews with more than a dozen current and former American military, intelligence and foreign policy officials, some of whom would speak only on condition of anonymity."

The daily wrote that many...