Six human rights groups urged the U.S. government on Thursday to name and explain the whereabouts of 39 people they said were believed to have been held in U.S. custody and "disappeared."
The groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, said they filed a U.S. federal lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act seeking information about the 39 people it terms "ghost prisoners" in the U.S. "war on terror."
When you worry about this stuff before the news reports come out, people say you're paranoid. When the news reports actually do come out, you begin to hope that they were right.
They ARE right. EXTREME right!
Posted by: matty | June 07, 2007 at 11:34 AM
As several south american countries have shown, just disappearing some people is much cleaner than courts/jails etc. Until the bodies are found (often never), there are many ways to deny any involvement.
If a government thinks people are disposable, they can be disappeared at will and avoid the messy business of actually, you know, proving that they were guilty of something. I hope Bush gets the Pinochet treatment in his advanced years for his role in all this stuff. Justice, of a kind, but justice delayed is often justice denied.
Posted by: JimPortlandOR | June 07, 2007 at 11:43 AM
Kids??
Holy shit.
Posted by: Tracy | June 07, 2007 at 03:57 PM