Bobby joined Charlie Savage and Jack Healy in querying here whether the U.S. Government might consider asking the Iraqis to extradite Lebanese national Ali Musa Daqduq to the United States.

A little while back, I wrote an article describing the evolution of our capture and detention policies in Iraq from 2003 to 2010 (based on a review of a massive pile of after-action reports and interviews from throughout that period).  The general thrust of that evolution, of course, was to move from a LOAC-driven military detention model to a law enforcement support model in which Iraqi judges played a critical role both in authorizing targeted captures (warrant-based targeting) and of course in adjudicating subsequent criminal prosecutions.  I d

The Times has an important story from Alissa Rubin this morning describing the ongoing negotiations between the US and Afghanistan regarding the future of the US presence there.  We have frequently heard that the two big issues clogging the negotiations involved Karzai's desire to end night raids and to have all detention operations immediately handed over.  Today's story in the Times suggests that the US has offered to address the latter concern by turn

At one point prior to 2009, [Update: In my haste this morning, I erred by referring to 100,000 detainees in Iraq at a single point in time, when instead I meant to refer to the volume of detainees we held there over time; the maximimum at any given point in time, I believe, was in the 20,000 range] the United States held more than 100,000 "security internees" in military custody in various facilities in Iraq.  Three years later, the war in Iraq is over (at least from a formal U.S.