McClatchy: Human rights groups say there are over 39 'ghost detainees' - 2 children, ages 7 and 9!!

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Human rights groups say there are over 39 'ghost detainees'
By Warren P. Strobel
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - At least 39 people from a half-dozen countries have been held in secret U.S. detention centers worldwide for three or more years, and their fates remain unknown, six human-rights groups say in a report to be released Thursday.

Human rights advocates said that the document, which they called the most comprehensive account yet of so-called "ghost detainees," raises new alarms about the Bush administration's practice of secretly detaining suspected terrorists without any legal proceedings.

In five instances, the report says, U.S. authorities detained the wives or young children of suspects held in secret prisons. And in four instances, terrorism suspects in U.S. custody may have been transferred to Libya, once a major adversary of Washington.

"It should be a sobering alarm bell that rattles us all out of our collective slumber," said Curt Goering, a top official at Amnesty International, which helped prepare the report.

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The report cites four cases in which terrorism suspects in U.S. custody may have been transferred to Libya. One of them is Ibn al Sheikh al Libi, whose allegations that Iraq advised al Qaida on developing weapons of mass destruction - since recanted - formed part of the U.S. case for invading Iraq.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17332904.htm

UPDATE: TWO CHILDREN HELD AT LEAST FOUR MONTHS, AGED 7 AND 9!!!

Among the cases detailed in the report is the detention in September 2002 of two children, then aged seven and nine, of confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was later detained and is now held at Guantanamo.

"According to eyewitnesses, the two were held in an adult detention center for at least four months while U.S. agents questioned the children about their father's whereabouts."


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/6/232627/3357

(The NYT carries the story in tomorrows paper but doesn't mention the children.)

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1. kick with update n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Where is my country

[Selatius]

3. This will only serve to make more people hate the US.

And Republicans wonder why we have become targets of terrorism. It's because US foreign policy harmed them.