It won't be as good as what we could have given him if we'd kept him in witness protection, but it beats being a ghost detainee.

Kern told the Committee there may have been as many as 100 ghost detainees.

The existence of ghost detainees in a secret CIA prison system is an example of this.

Several other articles reported the retention of ghost detainees by the CIA, alongside the other official "enemy combatants".

Human Rights Watch has released a list of 26 "ghost detainees" it says are being held incommunicado by the United States at secret foreign prisons.

This prisoner and other "ghost detainees" were hidden largely to prevent the International Committee of the Red Cross from monitoring their treatment.

This measures seeks to prevent the holding of unregistered prisoners, or ghost detainees, in Iraq and Afghanistan and at other military sites.

According to US official sources there could be over 100 ghost detainees held by the US.

Since then, Ghul became a ghost detainee, his very existence was unacknowledged.

Detainees kept off the prisoner roster at Abu Ghraib were referred to as "ghost detainees," the report said.