Europeans seek more info on secret jails

[deminks]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060907/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_world_reaction_1

LONDON - President Bush's disclosure that terrorism suspects had been held in CIA-run prisons drew approval Wednesday from activists and defense attorneys, but some called for details on the secret lockups.

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Nowak, who reports to the U.N. Human Rights Council, the global body's top right watchdog, has said the use of secret prisons violate anti-torture commitments under international law because keeping detainees in such places is a form of enforced disappearance.

He said the transfer of 14 detainees from clandestine centers to Guantanamo Bay was "an improvement," but warned that "of course there are many others."

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Shami Chakrabarti, director of London-based human rights group Liberty, said Bush's admissions raised fresh questions about a possible role of Britain and other countries in so-called extraordinary rendition flights, allegedly used to ferry prisoners to and from the secret prisons.

"After years of allegations come shocking admissions of guilt by the U.S. President as to the existence of secret prisons outside the rule of law," Chakrabarti said in a statement.

[babylonsister]

1. Il Dunce opened up a can of worms. I hope those worms bite

him in the ass!

[DavidDvorkin]

7. You wouldn't know there were worms, looking at the US press

Where's the outrage? as the GOP liked to keep asking in reference to a blowjob.

[IChing]

2. "outside the rule of law,"

Smells like
tastes like
feels like
sounds like

WAR CRIMES

[NVMojo]

4. yep, yep, yep ...the evil idiots

[sutz12]

3. Americans do to..... nt

[Eurobabe]

5. I hope the entire administration is brought down over this

[leftchick]

6. finally! A decent article on yahoo!

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Marine Maj. Michael Mori, the Pentagon-appointed lawyer for Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks, said that the legislation the White House wants to use to prosecute terrorist suspects in military trials is similar to provisions already deemed illegal by the high court.

"It appears to be just a rubber stamp of the old illegal commission system," Mori told the Australian Associated Press in the United States.

Shami Chakrabarti, director of London-based human rights group Liberty, said Bush's admissions raised fresh questions about a possible role of Britain and other countries in so-called extraordinary rendition flights, allegedly used to ferry prisoners to and from the secret prisons.

"After years of allegations come shocking admissions of guilt by the U.S. President as to the existence of secret prisons outside the rule of law," Chakrabarti said in a statement.