A/HRC/13/42* page 69 prisoner was known as “Triple X” and his secret detention was authorized by Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, who issued a classified order in November 2003 “directing military guards to hide [him] from Red Cross inspectors and keep his name off official rosters”.264 In addition, some locations may well be those in which prisoners died in United States custody. In 2006, Human Rights First published a report identifying 98 deaths in United States custody in Iraq, describing five deaths in CIA custody, including Manadel al-Jamadi, who died in Abu Ghraib, and others at locations including Forward Operating Base Tiger, in Anbar province, a forward operating base near Al-Asad, a base outside Mosul, a temporary holding camp near Nasiriyah and a forward operating base in Tikrit.265 C. Proxy detention sites 141. Since 2005, details have emerged of how the United States was not only secretly capturing, transferring and detaining people itself, but also transferring people to other States for the purpose of interrogation or detention without charge. The practice had apparently started almost simultaneously with the high-value detainee programme. The British Government266 transmitted to the experts a summary of conclusions and recommendations of the Intelligence and Security Committee report on rendition (2007), in which it was noted that “the Security Service and SIS were … slow to detect the emerging pattern of “renditions to detention” that occurred during 2002”. The CIA appears to have been generally involved in the capture and transfer of prisoners, as well as in providing questions for those held in foreign prisons. Beyond that, a clear pattern is difficult to discern: some prisoners were subsequently returned to CIA custody (and were generally sent on to Guantanamo), while others were sent back to their home countries, or remained in the custody of the authorities in third countries. 142. The Government of the United States has acknowledged that “some enemy combatants have been transferred to their countries of nationality for continued detention.”267 In its report to the Committee against Torture on 13 January 2006, the Government attempted to deflect criticism of its policy of sending detainees to countries with poor human rights records, including those where they might face the risk of torture, declaring that “the United States does not transfer persons to countries where the United States believes it is ‘more likely than not’ that they will be “In secret unit’s ‘black room,’ a grim portrait of US abuse”, New York Times, 19 March 2006, available from www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/international/middleeast/19abuse.html. 264 Edward T. Pound, “Hiding a bad guy named Triple X”, US News & World Report, 13 June 2004. Available from www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/040621/21abughraib.htm. 265 Human Rights First, “Command’s responsibility: detainee deaths in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan”, February 2006. Available at www.humanrightsfirst.info/pdf/06221-etn-hrf-dicrep-web.pdf. See also Eric Schmitt and Carolyn Marshall, op. cit. 266 In response to a questionnaire on allegations of rendition and detention sent by the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, dated 8 July 2009. 267 E/CN.4/2004/3, para. 69.