U.S. Frees Eight Arabs from Detention in Iraq

U.S. Frees Eight Arabs from Detention in Iraq
Sat December 13, 2003 11:57 AM ET

By Dina Al Wakeel
AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces in Iraq have released and sent home eight Arab detainees including three who were "seriously injured" while in custody, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Saturday.

The detainees -- five Jordanians, two Lebanese and a Syrian -- arrived by plane at a small civilian airport in Amman.

An ICRC spokesman in Amman said three of the detainees were hurt while in detention and were now partly disabled, but declined to say how they were injured or why they were detained.

"The eight people arrived in Amman on an ICRC plane after their liberation from a U.S. internment facility in Iraq," ICRC spokesman Muin Kassis told Reuters in Amman. Three of them "were injured during the period of their internment," he added. (snip/...)

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3987600

Outside Amman's small, family members waited anxiously to see the five Jordanians, one of whom had his leg amputated at the knee after he was injured while in custody.

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