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| AI wants us to know: 39 Secretly Imprisoned by U.S. |
| 2007-06-07 |
| A coalition of human rights groups has drawn up a list of 39 terror suspects it believes are being secretly imprisoned by U.S. authorities and published their names in a report released Thursday. Information about the so-called "ghost detainees" was gleaned from interviews with former prisoners and officials in the U.S., Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Yemen, according to Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and four other groups. Information on the purported missing detainees was, in some cases, incomplete, the report acknowledged. Some detainees had been added to the list because Marwan Jabour, an Islamic militant who claims to have spent two years in CIA custody, remembered being shown photos of them during interrogations, it said. Others were identified only by their first or last names, like "al-Rubaia," who was added to the list after a fellow inmate reported seeing the name scribbled onto the wall of his cell. But information for at least 21 of the detainees had been confirmed by two or more independent sources, said Anne Fitzgerald, a senior adviser for Amnesty International. President Bush acknowledged the existence of secret detention centers in September 2006, but said that the prisons were then empty. Bush said 14 terrorism suspects that the CIA had been holding, including a mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, had been transferred to military custody at Guantanamo Bay for trials. Detainees on the list include Hassan Ghul and Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Faqasi al-Ghamdi, who were both named in the 9-11 Commission report as al-Qaida operatives. Another is Mustafa Setmarian Nasar, a jihadist ideologue named as one of the FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists." U.S. officials have confirmed that Nasar was seized in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta in November 2005, and the activists' report said that he was taken into U.S. custody after his arrest, citing unnamed Pakistani officials. His current location is unknown. Also missing is Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman, the son of the Omar Abdel-Rahman, the "Blind Sheik" behind the first plot against the World Trade Center in New York, the report said. Most of the 35 other detainees mentioned in the report have been previously identified, with the exception of four Libyans, alleged members of the al-Qaida-linked Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. The report says they were handed to U.S. authorities and have not been heard from since. The four other groups involved in drafting the report were the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University's School of Law, and Reprieve and Cageprisoners - both London-based rights groups. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #10 they made excellent shark bait. |
| Posted by: Bob Ulinens6935 2007-06-07 23:37 |
| #9 "The report says they were handed to U.S. authorities and have not been heard from since." OK Amnesty International... You get the signatures of the next of kin of all 3000 plus folks who had folks die on 9/11 and the signatures next of kin of all the 3000 brave military folks who died in Iraq and Afghanistan on such a request for information, and MAYBE we'll consider it... Otherwise, go play "Kum By Ya" on a Marimba |
| Posted by: BigEd 2007-06-07 16:49 |
| #8 Only 39? Damn, can't we do better than that? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-06-07 16:07 |
| #7 Rats, they're on to our secret detention facility at Ice Station Zebra. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-06-07 10:35 |
| #6 Well I'll just cry myself to sleep tonight worrying about those poor terrorists. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-06-07 10:22 |
| #5 What we're asking is where are these 39 people... Ghost detainees. Personally I don't give a rat's ass. I suggest that the so-called human rights organization save their concern for the families of our dead soldiers and the families of victims of 911---in other words STFU. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-06-07 10:19 |
| #4 I remember how years ago, ABC News reported that "When George (H.W.) Bush was head of the CIA, there were no covert operations." I think that was when I realized that reporters weren't allowed outside when it was raining, because they would look up to see what was tapping them on the head and drown. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-06-07 10:00 |
| #3 They're at the bottom of the well with the Mahdi. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-06-07 09:47 |
| #2 That's all? I'm pissed... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-06-07 09:26 |
| #1 More treason. Hang them. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-06-07 09:04 |