Sunday, September 17, 2006

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

A detainee in an outdoor solitary confinement cell talks with a military policeman at the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad Iraq in this June 22 2004 file photo. When the Americans formally turned over Abu Ghraib prison to Iraqi control on Sept. 22006 it was empty but its 3000 prisoners remained in U.S. custody shifted to Camp Cropper. (AP Photo/John Moore 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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