ACP | American College of Physicians |
ACR | Armored Calvary Regiment |
ACS | Afghan Corrections System |
ADX | Administrative Maximum Facility (Supermax) (Florence) |
AIHRC | Afghanistan?s Independent Human Rights Commission |
APA | American Psychological Association |
APPG | All-Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition |
AQ | Al Qaeda |
ANSF | Afghan National Security Forces |
AUMF | Authorization for Use of Military Force |
AZ | Abu Zubaydah |
BCP | Bagram Collection Point |
BHA | Brigade Holding Area |
BIFS | Brigade Internment Facilities |
BOP | Bureau of Prisons (DOJ) |
BSCT | Behavioral Science Consultation Team (?Biscuit?) |
BTIF | Bagram Theater Internment Facility |
CAT | U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment |
CID | (1) Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading [Treatment or Punishment]) (2) U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command |
CIL | Customary International Law |
CITF | Guant?namo Criminal Investigative Task Force |
CJIATF-435 | Combined Joint Interagency Task Force?435 |
CJTF-180 | Combined Joint Task Force?180 (or -7, etc) |
COIN | Counter-Insurgent Strategy |
CNSD | Committee on National Security and Defense (Lithuania) |
CPT | European Committee for the Prevention of Torture |
CRS | Congressional Research Service |
CSRT | Combatant Status Review Tribunal |
DCHC | Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center (DIA) |
DIFS | Division Internment Facilities |
DHS | Department of Homeland Security |
DFIP | Detention Facility at Parwan |
DIA | Defense Intelligence Agency (DOD) |
DOD | Department of Defense |
DOJ | Department of Justice |
DOS | Department of State |
DRB | Detainee Review Board |
DTA | Detainee Treatment Act |
ECCC | Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia |
ECHR | European Court of Human Rights |
DUC | Detained Unlawful Combatant |
ECRB | Enemy Combatant Review Board |
EITs | Enhanced Interrogation Techniques |
EO | Executive Order |
FISA | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act |
FM | Army Field Manual |
FOIA | Freedom of Information Act |
GAO | Government Accountability Office |
GCI | First Geneva Convention |
GCII | Second Geneva Convention |
GCIII | Third Geneva Convention |
GCIV | Fourth Geneva Convention |
GIRoA | Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan |
GTMO | Guant?namo Bay Detention Camp |
GWOT | Global War on Terrorism |
HIG | High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group |
HVD | High-Value Detainee |
ICTY | International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia |
ICTR | International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
IHL | International Humanitarian Law |
HUMINT | Human Intelligence |
ICC | International Criminal Court |
ICCPR | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
ICE | Guant?namo?s Interrogation and Control Element |
ICRC | International Committee of the Red Cross |
ICTR | International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
ICTY | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia |
IED | Improvised Explosive Device |
IG | Inspector General (various agencies) |
ISAF | International Security Assistance Force |
ISG | Iraq Survey Group |
ISN | Interment Serial Number |
JAG | Judge Advocate General |
JIDC | Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center |
JPRA | Joint Personnel Recovery Agency |
JSOC | Joint Special Operations Command |
JTF-GTMO | Joint Task Force Guant?namo |
KFOR | Kosovo Force (NATO) |
KSM | Khalid Sheikh Mohammed |
LIFG | Libyan Islamic Fighting Group |
LLEC | Low Level Enemy Combatants |
LOAC | Law of Armed Conflict |
LTTE | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
MCA | Military Commissions Act |
MEP | Member of the European Parliament |
MI | Military Intelligence |
MOU | Memorandum of Understanding |
MP | Military Police |
MRE | Meal, Ready to Eat |
NCIS | Naval Criminal Investigative Service |
NCO | Noncommissioned Officer |
NDS | National Directorate of Security (Afghanistan) |
NGO | Nongovernmental Organization |
NSA | National Security Agency |
NSD-77 | National Security Directive 77 |
NSC | National Security Council |
ODA | Operational Detachment Alpha |
OEF | Operation Enduring Freedom |
OGA | Other Government Agency (the CIA, as referred to by the military) |
OIG | Office of Inspector General (various agencies) |
OLC | Office of Legal Counsel (DOJ) |
OMS | Office of Medical Services (CIA) |
OPR | Office of Professional Responsibility (DOJ) |
OGC | Office of General Counsel (various agencies) |
OSI | Open Society Institute |
OSCE | Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
OTSG | Office of the Surgeon General |
ORNISS | National Registry Office for Classified Information (Romania) |
POW | Prisoner of War |
PENS | APA Presidential Task Force on Psychological Ethics and National Security |
PFT | Pouring, Flicking or Tossing (Water) |
PR | Personal Representative |
PRB | Privilege Review Board |
PHR | Physicians for Human Rights |
PKK | Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan |
PTSD | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
PUC | Person Under Control |
SAP | Special Access Program |
SCIF | Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility |
SERE | Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape |
SSCI | Senate Select Committee on Intelligence |
SOP | Standard Operating Procedure |
SSD | State Security Department (Lithuania) |
TCP | The Constitution Project |
TF | Task Force |
TJAG | The Judge Advocate General |
(U) | unclassified |
UCMJ | Uniform Code of Military Justice |
UDHR | Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
UECRB | Unlawful Enemy Combatant Review Board |
UNAMA | United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan |
USFOR-A | U.S. Forces, Afghanistan |
WCA | War Crimes Act |
WMA | World Medical Association |