Oh, look! The locals are so happy to hear that the new detainees are arriving just in time for lunch.
Posted on 10/19/2007 1:45:32 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
'CIA island jail' to be probed
A UK parliamentary committee is to investigate allegations that US authorities held 'terrorist' suspects in secret prisons on an Indian Ocean island leased by the US from Britain, officials said.
Reprieve, a British legal charity, says the CIA detained suspected al-Qaeda members at an airbase on the island of Diego Garcia.
Reprieve says at least three al-Qaeda linked prisoners - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah and Hambali - were held on the island with the consent of British authorities.
George Bush, the US president, admitted in 2006 the CIA had held the three and 11 others in secret prisons.
Clive Stafford-Smith, Reprieve's legal director, told Al Jazeera: "These things are being done as far away from the public view as possible, and those prisoners are far worse off than my clients in Guantanamo Bay."
Boat prisons
In a dossier sent to the UK parliament's foreign affairs committee that will invest, Reprieve says boats moored off Diego Garcia may also have been used as floating prisons.
"There have been repeated, credible and concurrent claims that Diego Garcia has played a major role in the US system of renditions and secret detention," documents submitted to the committee said.
But Britain's foreign office said in a statement that the US has given repeated assurances "no detainees, prisoners of war or any other persons" have been held on Diego Garcia, or have transited through the island.
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nah , they got it wrong , that’s a shark dive tourist attraction . They are confusing detainees with chum.
the divine right to speak freely will get us killed by those who hate us and wanna control that free speech.
“They” don’t believe in the divine.
George Bush, the US president, admitted in 2006 the CIA had held the three and 11 others in secret prisons.
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Boat prisons
In a dossier sent to the UK parliament’s foreign affairs committee that will invest, Reprieve says boats moored off Diego Garcia may also have been used as floating prisons.
***Yikes. That’s where I’m headed, when they start rounding up christians.
heh heh heh ....
man I just love to see your nick here :^)
deo vindice
Oh, look! The locals are so happy to hear that the new detainees are arriving just in time for lunch.
naaa... it's Ascension Island!!!
Ah! The “footprint of freedom.” Good snorkeling if you not in a cage on the island. Oh, the island is leased from the Brits, though they may have something to say about it, and service on the island is considerd “arduous.”
Footprint of Freedom, ...Arm pit of Liberty....
Can sharks jump that high?
Was it this place?
Be seeing you...
-Number 2
That’s a great picture!
Husband-and-wife team Monique and Chris Fallows make a living by photographing giant sharks hurtling through the air, as they rocket from the depths to catch seals near the surface.
The phenomenon is best seen near Seal Island, a crowded seal colony near Cape Town, South Africa. There, great whites and other sharks congregate to feed on the pinnipeds.
When seals cross deep water to approach or leave their island sanctuary, the waiting sharks, swimming at depth, hurtle themselves with great strength toward the animals at the surface. The ferocity and momentum of the ascent often results in both predator and prey exploding out of the ocean like a cork from a champagne bottle—a moment that the Fallowses have caught on film for magazines, exhibits, and television documentaries seen all over the world.
This particular photo was taken by a National Geographic photographer when the shark went after a decoy they were towing behind their boat.
"An image that I had always dreamed of was to capture a white shark in mid-flight coming straight toward me in full battle cry, showing just what these animals are really capable of," photographer Chris Fallows said. "On this particular day, we had spent nearly an hour towing our decoy with no success, and the sea conditions were worsening. As we were towing through one of my favorite areas, it suddenly happened. To this day we have never again seen a similar breach."
Here are some other photos of the jumping sharks of Seal Island.
Remind me to never go swimming off this island.
I can't believe you would ask that question....Everyone knows they can jump as high as an elephant's eye...
Airbase on the Island of Diego Garcia? That’s pretty grandiose for the one-horse operation I remember.
I was fishing in Diego Garcia’s lagoon in a rowboat, and hooked something that towed the boat and me around for a good while, till the line finally broke.
I guess the message to the troops is ‘quit capturing and start killing’!
Amazing predators who smell blood in the water same as Islam’s false prophet that all Muslims are supposed to model themselves after
Free Range psychopaths are morally superior to battery raised psychopaths.
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