reports:

Torture is rampant in Iraqi prisons and police detention centers, and may be worse than under Saddam Hussein’s rule, a U.N. human rights investigator said on Thursday.

Should we really be surprised? I never thought I would see the day that my country would detain people for five years without trial or even allowing them to know the specifics of the accusations against them. These are dangerous people our President says. And indeed, some may be. But at least some are not.
A story in the Christian Science Monitor notes:

Five Muslim detainees from China’s western Xinjiang province are stranded in a legal no man’s land at the US terrorism prison camp at Guant?°namo Bay, Cuba.
They shouldn’t be there. Even the US military has found that the men, members of the besieged Uighur ethnic group, are not enemy combatants. But their ordeal in custody isn’t over. Because they could face harsh treatment back in China – and the US doesn’t want to set a precedent by granting them asylum here – they sit in a barracks-like detention center waiting for a country to give them a home.

Another story in The Guardian reports:
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It’s hard to picture Haji Nasrat Khan as an international terrorist. For a start, the grey-bearded Afghan can barely walk, shuffling along on a three-wheeled walking frame. His sight is terrible – he squints through milky eyes that sometimes roll towards the heavens – while his helpers have to shout to make themselves heard. And as for his age – nobody knows for sure, not even Nasrat himself. “I think I am 78, or maybe 79,” he ventures uncertainly, pausing over a cup of green tea. Yet for three and a half years the US government deemed this elderly, infirm man an “enemy combatant”, so dangerous to America’s security that he was imprisoned at Guant?°namo Bay.

And then there is the case of Murat Kurnaz, reported in Stars and Stripes no less, an innocent man held for four years and only released after diplomatic action from Germany. Or the case of Moazzam Begg who was held for three years. I could go on. Lots of innocent people are in the prison in Guantanamo. We know that in Afghanistan people informed on their neighbors informed on people for reward money, to settle ancient grudges or even to get business of political opponents out of the way. And yet those men sit, rotting in jail, with now clue why they are there now when they will go home. I, as a proud American, find this shocking and abhorrent. Yet it is going on. We should demand it stop! Click here for more about Guantanamo. ]]>