OLD NEWS?
(Posted 2007-06-07 11:14:09 by ArchPaladin)

Today, Amnesty International released a new report [
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR510932007 ] [amnesty.org] about
the continued practice of secret imprisonment by the United States and the
CIA.  This report contains many names of those who are believed to be
detained, and whose exact whereabouts have become uncertain because no
information about those people are given once they are detained.

I know this whole black-site ordeal came into and out of the American
public's consciousness a long time ago.  However, what was news to me in
this report (and was apparently reported back in 2003 [
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F03%2F09%2Fwalqa09.xml
] [telegraph.co.uk]), was that detention of individuals includes not only
individuals who were suspected terrorists, but also their wives and young
children.  This I did not know, and I don't recall it being mentioned in
any American news media either (you'll notice the Telegraph is British).

Now I happen to be against detention in the manner we've gone about it, but
all the more so when you're talking about young children.  I wonder if the
American public would have had a greater outcry if this had been widely
known information at the time.  Sadly, attempts to release info now would
be rather late, and anyone trying to break this story has to complete with
all the primary debates and such.  I'm not even sure I know how best to act
to this news myself, except to let anyone else who reads this know about
it.  I'm kinda hoping that everyone else already knew this and I was just
left in the dark, but if that's the case then I would be sad that there
wasn't a greater outcry about the whole issue.

This is why I do my best to get my news and other information from obscure
or international sites.  There's a greater chance that I'll get less bias
and more detail.

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