WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- The International Red Cross has met with 14 terror suspects recently transferred to Guantanamo from secret CIA prisons outside U.S. borders.
CNN, citing "knowledgeable sources," said the group included Khalid Sheik Mohammed, suspected of being the major al-Qaida organizer of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and Ramzi Binalshibh, allegedly a would-be hijacker.
Last month, Simon Schorno, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said representatives had private meetings with the prisoners, taking any complaints they have about their conditions of detention and any messages they have for relatives. Schorno said that complaints would be reported to U.S. authorities where appropriate.
U.S. President George Bush acknowledged last month that the CIA had been holding and interrogating prisoners secretly. He said that the suspects would be transferred to the prison Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and come before military tribunals.
