U.S. Holding Prisoners in More Than Two Dozen Secret Detention Facilities

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U.S. Holding Prisoners in More Than Two Dozen Secret Detention Facilities Worldwide, New Report Says

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 17) – A new report from Human Rights First (the new name of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) outlines the scope of the global network of U.S. detention facilities holding suspects in the "war on terror." The report lists more than two dozen facilities that have been reported by Human Rights First sources and the media; at least half of these operate in total secrecy.

Suspected Prisons in the US:

U.S. Naval Ships: USS Bataan and USS Peleliu.

Others:

Jordan - Al Jafr Prison (CIA interrogation facility)

DIEGO GARCIA - United States and United Kingdom officials deny repeated news reports indicating that at least some individuals are being detained on the British possession of Diego Garcia, including, at one time, the leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah, Hambali (Riduan Isamuddin).

PAKISTAN - Kohat (near the border of Afghanistan) Alizai

Others in Iraq and Afganistan.

Link: http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/media/2004_alerts/0617.htm

[JSJ]

1. kick against torture

[UpInArms]

2. no "ghost" prisoners declares the Pentagon!

Hell, we have entire "ghost" prisons!

[2Design]

3. concentration camps all over the world....and on ships....with

POWs called by another name to satisfy a sick regime.....someone must take them down....BFEE...must be taken down...

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

4. The official story...

The denial that I read said that the Pentagon denied that there were any unaccounted-for prisoners being held pursuant to DOD operations.

They didn't say that the CIA, NSA, DOJ, or some other operation (including private contractors) weren't holding prisoners.

[struggle4progress]

5. Important ...

... but not LBN:

Disappearing Prisoners
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=665432

Report Says U.S. Has 'Secret' Detention Centers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=628894

U.S. Acknowledges Violating International Law by Holding Prisoner in Secret
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=627978

[DemoTex]

6. The truth about Diego Garcia (again, "Granta").

How do you persuade a thousand dogs to walk into a fire? How do you persuade them, as it were, to commit suttee? A thousand stray and rather wild dogs at that, all of whom need to be killed for urgent geopolitical reasons, to keep London and Washington happy. On the island of Diego Garcia, on an afternoon of fierce heat in spring 1971, this was the problem facing Sir Bruce Greatbatch, KCVO, CMG, MBE, who was then acting in his capacity as Governor of the Colony of the Seychelles and Commissioner of a newly established and then little-known imperial entity called the British Indian Ocean Territories.

It was hardly the crowning moment of Sir Bruce's long colonial career, which had unrolled its stately way over four decades of administering the subject peoples of King George VI and then his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, in parts of their empire ranging from northern Nigeria to Barbados. Here, on a tiny and hitherto insignificant speck of coral limestone at a point in the Indian ocean equidistant from Sri Lanka, Mombasa and the Arabian peninsula, Sir Bruce was compelled to supervise, not a Queen's Birthday Party or the opening of a Dominion parliament, but the slaughter of a thousand mongrels.

Sir Bruce had the means at his disposal. On an island which had once harvested its coconut crop to produce coconut oil, there was a long, low brick-built shed known as the coconut calorifier. The shed had two shelves ranged one above the other, the upper to hold the flesh of hundreds of coconuts, the lower to hold the coconuts' husks. By setting the husks on fire, the flesh above would be cooked and its water content (fifty per cent) evaporated until it became copra, an edible fat from which oil can be crushed. An economical system on Diego Garcia—all parts of the nut were used, no extra cost of imported fuel—but one designed for the inanimate. Still, this was to be the pyre. A ton or so of husks were heaped inside and set alight that day, sending up flames and billows of black smoke. Of course, the dogs were recalcitrant: they kept escaping to the beach and turning viciously on their whippers-in. (More ...)

http://www.granta.com/extracts/1225

[saigon68]

7. Interesting Story:

Thanks Mac