UK Group Says US Used Ships as Prisons

[unhappycamper]

Source: military.com / Associated Press

UK Group Says US Used Ships as Prisons
June 03, 2008
Associated Press

LONDON - A British human rights organization claimed June 2 that the United States had used military ships to secretly detain and interrogate terrorism suspects. U.S. officials denied using ship as prisons.

The group Reprieve alleged that high-profile detainees including American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh and Australian Taliban supporter David Hicks were imprisoned on the vessels. Reprieve claims that the United States has used ships stationed off the Somali coast and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia to detain suspects.

"The U.S. administration chooses ships to try to keep their misconduct as far as possible from the prying eyes of the media and lawyers," Reprieve director Clive Stafford Smith said.

The U.S. Navy said that ships have been used to hold a small number of prisoners for short periods, but it denied that vessels were used as long-term floating prisons.

Read more: http://www.military.com/news/article/uk-group-says-us-used-ships-as-prisons.html

[hisownpetard]

1. The horrors never end. I believe that it will take at least 8 years just to discover

the extent of the nefarious and criminal wrong-doings that have taken place under the current
administration.

Addressing and correcting them may take decades.

[pocoloco]

2. Followed by a large school of sharks????