With regard to Opinion No . 44/2005 ( United States of America ) concerning the case of Mr. Abdul Jaber Al Kubaisi , in which the Working Group had stated that the detention of this person by the multinational force in Iraq ( MNF-I ) violated the provisions of article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Fourth Geneva Convention , the Government stated that , since the situation in Iraq was an armed conflict covered by international humanitarian law , the Working Group did not have a mandate to assess the validity of security internment in that country .