Secret US Jails Hold 10,000

[mourningdove92]

Secret US jails hold 10,000

13.05.2004
By ANDREW BUNCOMBE and KIM SENGUPTA
WASHINGTON - Almost 10,000 prisoners from President George W. Bush's so-called war on terror are being held around the world in secretive American-run jails and interrogation centres similar to the notorious Abu Ghraib Prison.

Some of these detention centres are so sensitive that even the most senior members of the United States Congress have no idea where they are.

From Iraq to Afghanistan to Cuba, this American gulag is driven by the pressure to obtain "actionable" intelligence from prisoners captured by US forces.

The systematic practice of holding prisoners without access to lawyers or their families, together with a willingness to use "coercive interrogation" techniques, suggests the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib now shocking the world could be widespread.

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[Earth_First]

1. I wonder how many people "fall off the map" these days...

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[OneBlueSky]

2. the axis of evil is now the new gulag archipelago . . .

BushCo continues to ignore international law at every turn . . . by trashing the Geneva Conventions, they're putting every potential American prisoner of this or any future war at great risk . . . they should be removed from office and prosecuted as war criminals, every last one of them . . .