Row well and live.
Posted on 06/28/2005 2:02:07 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite
The UN has learned of "very, very serious" allegations that the United States is secretly detaining terrorism suspects in various locations around the world, notably aboard prison ships, the UN's special rapporteur on terrorism said.
While the accusations were rumours, rapporteur Manfred Nowak said the situation was sufficiently serious to merit an official inquiry.
"There are very, very serious accusations that the United States is maintaining secret camps, notably on ships," the Austrian UN official told AFP, adding that the vessels were believed to be in the Indian Ocean region.
"They are only rumours, but they appear sufficiently well-based to merit an official inquiry," he added.
Last Thursday Nowak and three other UN human rights experts said they were opening an inquiry into the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where Washington has been holding more than 500 people without trial, and into other such locations.
The United States has neither refused nor granted requests by Nowak's group to visit Guantanamo.
"We have accepted, upon the request of the State Department and Pentagon, to limit our investigation for now to Guantanamo, but even in accepting this we have not had a positive response" to the request for a visit, Nowak said.
He said that if the "investigation into Guantanamo leads us to other things, we will follow them. We will bring up all these matters to the US government and expect Washington to say officially where these camps are."
The use of prison ships would allow investigators to interrogate people secretly and in international waters out of the reach of US law, British security expert Francis Tusa said.
"This opens the door to very tough interrogations on key prisoners before it even has been revealed that they have been captured," said Tusa, an editor for the British magazine Jane's Intelligence Review.
Nowak said the prison ships would not be "floating Guantanamos" since "they are much smaller, holding less than a dozen detainees."
Tusa said the Americans may also be using their island base of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean as a site for prisoners.
Some 520 people suspected of terrorism are currently being held without trial at Guantanamo and others are in camps the United States has refused to acknowledge, the human rights organization Amnesty International has said.
The United States has said that prisoners considered foreign combattants in its "war on terrorism" are not covered by the Geneva Conventions
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Gee! First Club Gitmo and now cruises, too?
Yeah, and maybe thats where they're keeping the aliens that crashed at Roswell too! /sarcasm
Bushwah!
Yeah, and maybe thats where they're keeping the aliens that crashed at Roswell, too! /sarcasm
What a crock. If they are "well based" they are not rumors. If they are rumors, then by default they are not well based. More leftist swill and gobboldigook from the leftists/socialists/marxists at the UN.
When I read the story I said...GOOD!
They shouldn't give these POS' a room on the ship, just attach a rope to their ankle, tie the end to the back of the ship and see how long they can be dragged along ;)
Shhhhhhhhh!! Dang, Loose Lips...
Now is reeeeeeally not the time for some UN toe-rag to pick a fight with the US, is it?
I've heard rumors that somewhere in the rest of Cuba, there are prisons where Castro is holding and torturing political prisoners, homosexuals, librarians, and other innocent people. I guess that's not sufficiently serious to merit an official inquiry by the UN, though.
Is this the same UN whose complicity in the Oil-for-Food scandal may have led directly to 9/11?
Who's got that "screw the UN" pic?
That isjust damned funny. What position do the mullahs have on anal probing? Would they issue a fatwah against the aliens?
:-)
Even if it is true, I don't care...and the public won't either.
The Enemy Within will pay for this continual undermining of our WOT.
LOL! Good One! The BIG question is: Do they offer religious appropriate meals????? (snip)
Row well and live.
Where we are secretly assimilating them into the borg collective to be used as semi-robotic terrorist and UN official hunters.
We are also planning to spread contraceptives into the food supply of all islamic nations. And we use korans to wipe our butts.
(OK so maybe the last one is true)
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