Posted on 06/28/2005 1:02:59 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
US faces prison ship allegations The United Nations says it has learned of serious allegations that the US is secretly detaining terrorism suspects, notably on American military ships. The special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak said the accusations were rumours at this stage, but urged the US to co-operate in an investigation.
He said the UN wants lists of the places of detention and those held.
The comments come five days after the UN accused the US of stalling on their requests to visit Guantanamo Bay.
Investigators have been asking to visit the jail in Cuba to carry out checks into allegations of human rights abuse.
The UN said for over a year there had been no response to its requests, and it would begin an inquiry into alleged abuses with or without US co-operation.
Washington had yet to grant their request, Mr Nowak said.
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And I want the power of invisibility.
Now if the UN would just comment on those serious allegations that it's workers rape adolecents throughout Africa.
"The United Nations says it has learned of serious allegations that the US is secretly detaining terrorism suspects, notably on American military ships."
Ive long suspected as much, I hope I'm right.
I guess we can now explain the ravenous sharks down here in the gulf....
US running secret jails worldwide: Amnesty
BEIJING, June 6 -- The chief of Amnesty International USA alleged Sunday that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is part of an "archipelago" of U.S. prisons worldwide, "many of them secret," where detainees are mistreated and even killed.
A weeks-long dispute has raged since England-based Amnesty International's report, released on May 25, cited "growing evidence of U.S. war crimes" and labeled the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay as "the gulag of our times."
"The U.S. is maintaining an archipelago of prisons around the world, many of them secret prisons, into which people are being literally disappeared, held in indefinite, incommunicado detention without access to lawyers or a judicial system or to their families," William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty's Washington-based branch, told "Fox News Sunday."
"And in some cases, at least, we know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed."
Schulz recently dubbed U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld an "apparent high-level architect of torture" in asserting he approved interrogation methods that violated international law.
"It would be fascinating to find out. I have no idea," Schulz said.
"The United States should be the one that should investigate those who are alleged at least to be architects of torture, not just the foot solders who may have inflicted the torture directly, but those who authorized it or encouraged it or provided rationales for it," he said.
Human Rights Watch said U.S. interrogators had inflicted religious humiliation on Muslim detainees, a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
The U.S. military on Friday released details about five cases in which the Koran was kicked, stepped on and soaked in water.
A Newsweek story in its issue dated May 9 reported that American military investigators had found evidence that interrogators at the Guantanamo prison facility had flushed a Koran down a toilet to get inmates there to talk.
The article, which was retracted by the magazine one week later, sparked violent protests in Afghanistan, where 16 were killed and more than 100 injured, Pakistan and other Muslim countries.
About 520 prisoners, most of whom were captured during the US-led war in Afghanistan, are still being held at Guantanamo Bay, and some of them have been detained there for more than three years without charges and access to lawyers. Enditem
Hey, UN! How does it feel to "want"?
Awwwwwww! The mean old USA. Shame on us.
(Heavy sarcasm)
Forgive me if I don't give a dang.
Where's the Ricky Ricardo picture when you need it ?
gee, thats too bad. Poor little terrorists. Lets dump em at sea, get rid of the "evidence"
And we (USA) want all the documents dealing with Oil for Cash (Food) and Kofi's resignation and UN out of US.
The media is beside itself trying to undermine this President.
I guess we can now explain the ravenous sharks down here in the gulf....
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Take the prisoners far out to sea...throw them to the sharks....maybe it will make the shoreline safer for swimmers.
I say "piss" on the UN.
Stalling? Is that how they interpret the phrase "Kiss My Ass."
What a bunch of crock!
Let's just cut our funding of the UN and give them one year to find a new home.
We've housed/funded these perverts long enough.
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