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Paratroopers from the service-and-recovery shop, Company B, 82nd Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, installed benches, seat belts, an air conditioner and six 1,500-pound-armor plates into a locomotive-movement tactical vehicle to create a detainee vehicle. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Joshua R. Ford Paratroopers Ensure Secure Transportation for Detainees Soldiers make room in tactical vehicle for 15 to 20 passengers. By Spc. Joshua R. Ford3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS BASE SPEICHER, Iraq, Oct. 19, 2006 -- When the order came down from higher headquarters to move detainees from Forward Operating Bases...

Europe quiescent over American-run GulagEUROVISION/RASHMEE Z AHMED TIMES NEWS NETWORKSATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2003 It may all have been very different if we were talking about the rights of terrorists operating in Jammu and Kashmir or the extradition of Abu Salem to India. But, Britain's famous sense of fairplay and Europe's exaggerated emphasis on human rights is as nothing when it comes to the following, intensely ugly facts: At least 20 European nationals, from countries ranging right the way across the European Union, are presently incarcerated in the legal black hole, that American-run Gulag, called Guantanamo Bay. Though impossible to confirm,...

GENEVA (AFP) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Monday that it had begun visiting a group of Iraqi prisoners of war captured by coalition forces for the first time since the US-led invasion began. The ICRC said talks with Iraqi authorities about access to any US or British prisoners of war were continuing. Coalition forces have estimated that about 3,000 Iraqis are in a camp which ICRC staff entered in southern Iraq on Monday, a senior official at the Geneva-based aid agency said. A team of 15 ICRC delegates, including a doctor and six...

US Marines say they have captured an Iraqi army general in Nasiriya, in southern Iraq. Sporadic fighting continues in and around the town, although not as severe as in recent days. US aircraft and artillery are continuing to attack targets in Nasiriya. The man the US says is a general was captured on Thursday as US Marines stepped up their offensive against Iraqi units. According to Marine officers with Task Force Tarawa, he was found at his home. Documents and a large safe have been taken away for examination. More than 300 Iraqis have been taken prisoner since the fighting...