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  • Amnesty and al Qaeda: The instructive case of Ahmed Hikmat Shakir-(AI helped free him!)

    06/06/2005 9:33:21 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 4 replies · 461+ views
    OPINION JOURNAL.COM ^ | JUNE 7, 2005 | Editor
    It's good to see that Amnesty International has had to backtrack from its comparison of Guantanamo Bay to the Soviet "gulag." Less than two weeks after making that analogy, Amnesty's U.S. boss issued what amounted to a full retraction on "Fox News Sunday" this weekend. "Clearly, this is not an exact or a literal analogy," said William Schulz. "In size and in duration, there are not similarities between U.S. detention facilities and the gulag. . . . People are not being starved in those facilities. They're not being subjected to forced labor." Thanks for clearing that up. And what about...