WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- The Pentagon has revealed five people with dual U.S. citizenship are being held in military prisons in Iraq for aiding insurgents in violence.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told the Washington Post the dual nationality involves one Jordanian, one Iranian and three Iraqis.
Defense officials would not identify the detainees or divulge where they lived in the United States.
The Jordanian was arrested in October after a search of his Baghdad home and is believed to be a high-ranking associate of Abu Musab Zarqawi's terrorist network.
The newspaper said all five are at one of three main detention facilities -- Camp Cropper near Baghdad International Airport, the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad or at Camp Bucca, near the southeastern port city of Umm Qasr.
Pentagon officials said the U.S. nationals make up a tiny fraction of the 10,000 detainees in custody, and an even smaller percentage of the more than 70,000 detainees who have been held in Iraq and Afghanistan.
