Sunday, September 17, 2006

U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14000 (AP)

Iraqi army officers detain suspected insurgent soon after a roadside bomb in Baqouba 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad Iraq in this  Aug. 28 2006 file photo. A committee consisting of U.S. and Iraqi officials from the ministries of human rights justice and interior has reviewed the cases of more than 30000 detainees and recommended more than 15400 for release but still there are more than 13000 detainees are being held at coalition facilities in various prisons in Iraq. (AP Photo File)AP - In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons its islands of high security keeping 14000 detainees beyond the reach of established law.


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