Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor will have some explaining to do in the House. Mr. O'Connor, who has 30 years experience in the army and is a former brigadier general, went to Afghanistan last week to meet with the head of the Kandahar office of Afghanistan's Independant Human Rights Commission. He wanted to "look the man in the eyes and confirm that they're going to do what they say they're going to do." Mr. O'Connor was referring to Abdul Qadar Noorzie. He wanted to ensure the AIHRC is monitoring the transfer of Afghan prisoners handed over by Canadian Forces. For months, Mr. O'Connor had been telling MPs in the House that the International Committee of the Red Cross monitored the Canada-Afghanistan detainees' transfer agreement. But The Globe and Mail recently broke the story that the ICRC was not monitoring the detainee transfers.

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