The 5 Iranians will be held until October

Like I buy this story,

The United States will not release five Iranians detained in a U.S. military raid in northern Iraq until at least October..... The delay is as much due to a miscommunication mistake within the U.S. government as a policy decision, they said.....

They were originally due for review six months after their detention -- or by mid-July. But unbeknownst to the top U.S. military and diplomatic officials in Iraq, the Multinational Force headquarters reviewed their status in April, which means they are not eligible for another review until October, U.S. officials said. Neither Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, nor Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker was aware that a review had taken place until last week, they noted.

Right, because if the Bush administration is about anything, it's about being sticklers on the technicalities on the rules of detention.

These prisoners are a bartering chip and they are being used to embarrass the Iranian regime. They weren't even the targets of the initial raid.