The New York Times: Officials Detail a Detainee Deal by 3 Countries

This article is pretty interesting. In an earlier post I made the point that despite the fact that the US said that they would not negotiate with terrorists, the newly appointed interim government, with their offer of amnesty to insurgents, would. It turns out that we don't need to look quite as hard to find an inconsistency in US policy because "American officials agreed to return five terrorism suspects to Saudi Arabia from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, last year as part of a secret three-way deal intended to satisfy important allies in the invasion of Iraq, according to senior American and British officials".