St Petersburg is around 830 miles from Murmansk and Greenpeace said it may take from 24 to 72 hours before it becomes clear which detention centre or centres the group have been placed in.
On any reading of PNG's constitution, it is clear that detention without trial of people who were accused of no crime, and who'd been forced to PNG against their will, was illegal.
Other questions officers are told to ask themselves are stark: "Is it clear that detention, rather than killing, is the objective of the operation?" reads one paragraph.
As the photographs from Abu Ghraib make clear, these detentions have had enormous consequences: for the imprisoned civilian Iraqis, many of whom had nothing to do with the growing insurgency; for the integrity of the Army; and for the United States' reputation in the world.
"For many years it's been clear that the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay does not advance our security," said Obama in a White House press conference.
Tuesday's session, streamed on to a flatscreen TV in a Defense Department-operated office building outside Washington, provided the first public peek into a process the Obama administration ordered begun in 2011 to help clear out the detention facility's remaining population.
"International law is quite clear that immigration detention must be strictly a measure of last resort".
Now that Iraq, with Syria, is once again a theater of war – though undeclared as such by Congress USUS military officers are sounding alarms over the absence of clear rules surrounding detentions policy, particularly for long-term detentions and interrogations.
In light of Rusbridger's disclosures, it's even clearer that the detention of Miranda is part of an attack on American journalists authorized at the highest levels of the British government, and it's an attack that is at the very least implicitly backed by the Obama administration.
It was not immediately clear when the detentions occurred.
