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Amending its foreign policy, Pentagon is handing the International Committee of the Red Cross the names of militants held secretly at a camp in Iraq and another in Afghanistan. According to The New York Times the latest shift in detention policy undertaken by the Obama administration, took effect this month. Between 30 and 40 prisoners are held in Iraq and a smaller number in Afghanistan, military officials told the Times. The policy change would allow the ICRC to follow the custody of the prisoners. Although the ICRC has access to almost all US-run prisons in both countries, it had not been allowed into the Special Operations sites, the Times said. The secret jails in Iraq and Afghanistan will continue to operate. Earlier US Army had maintained that efforts against terrorism would be hampered after leaking the names of terrorists who would get cautious afterwards.
