8/30/2008: Intel News Brief: Militants Handed Over to "Home
Countries":

US-Military-Intervention:
The US military has secretly handed over more than 200 militants to
the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries,
nearly all in the past two years, as part of an effort to reduce the
burden of detaining and interrogating foreign fighters captured in
Iraq and Afghanistan, The New York Times said citing US military
officials.

The system is similar in some ways to the rendition program used by
the Central Intelligence Agency since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks on the United States to secretly transfer people suspected of
being militants back to their home countries to be jailed and
questioned.

But there are significant differences; the prisoners can block their
transfers to home countries, military officials say.

Officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross interview
all detainees before they are returned to their home countries, said
Bernard Barrett, a Red Cross spokesman.