CIA Still Hiding "Ghost" Captives

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Not a long article but interesting. It would be refreshing if anyone in the press questioned the administration in this matter.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2350485,00.html

CIA still hiding 'ghost' captives
Stephen Grey and Sarah Baxter

DOZENS of key terror suspects are still being held in unknown locations, despite President George Bush’s declaration that the CIA is no longer operating secret jails.
High-level detainees such as Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the September 11 ringleaders, are now in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba but there are still “ghost prisoners” among more than 6,000 who have been questioned by America and its allies since 9/11.

Their fate is among several unresolved issues raised by Bush’s new anti-terror legislation. His plans for military tribunals to try suspects are being held up by negotiations with leading Republican senators, including John Warner, chairman of the Senate armed forces committee, and John McCain, a favourite for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

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Bush has offered no guarantees that the CIA will stop using what amounts to torture against new Al-Qaeda suspects. He told yesterday’s Wall Street Journal that measures to put his antiterror policies on firmer legal and political ground would benefit future presidents.

While the president said last week the CIA’s secret jails had been emptied, there remain “dozens” of important terrorist suspects who have “disappeared completely”, according to Clive Stafford-Smith, legal director of Reprieve, a UK charity that provides legal support for death row prisoners. “We know who is in Guantanamo, but where have the others gone?”

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1. Of course they are -- the ones that are still alive. . .

or they have handed them over to proxies to torture.

The war criminals need the lies that the tortured tell their torturers. The fantasies spun to escape inhuman depravation and excruciating pain support Bush and Cheney's delusions. Reality is a constant threat to those delusions. They will go to any lengths to reinforce their insanity.

One consequence of their conspiracy to continue their program of torture is that they are turning Americans into monsters (or finding and employing monstrous Americans).

They are paranoid cowards. Only a coward blusters and cowers, driven by their paranoid fear into coercing others to commit unspeakable crimes.