Where have all the people gone?

[undergroundpanther]

The Bush gulag: Where are the bodies? Press won't ask
Submitted by lambert on Sat, 2006-12-16 13:14. Bush Torture Policies | Bush | gulag | prison camps

Once more let’s do some very simple arithmetic:

1. We know that we’re holding thousands of prisoners (estimates range from 7,000 to 35,000).
2. Gitmo holds only 500.
3. So, where are the missing thousands? The only alternatives I can think of:
1. They’ve been released
2. They’re still in jail
3. They’ve been disappeared.

Barring divine intervention, the bodies of the missing thousands occupy time and space in this world. Where are they?

Which door would you choose? (a), released? (b), still in jail? Or (c), disappeared?

Today, we have two stories on the Bush gulag, one from WaPo, and the other from AP.

Notably, neither comes close to answering the question:

Where are the missing thousands?

In fact, both stories fail to answer the question, both by orders of magnitude.

http://www.correntewire.com/the_bush_gula

[az chela]

1. Wow good question

We need to demand an answer.
Contact your senators and represenatives and lets ask them

[Common Sense Party]

2. Do you have a link to either the WaPo or AP story?

[undergroundpanther]

3. Here ya go

AP story on Yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061216/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/after_guantanamo
And WaPo here...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121502044.html

[Common Sense Party]

4. We "know" we're holding between 7000 and 35,000 detainees?

Where is that number coming from?

[BlueStateModerate]

5. Yeah...

The same question immediately came to my mind. If estimates range so greatly, there can't be too much accuracy coming from whatever source(s) put this out.

[Common Sense Party]

6. Especially since that range doesn't even appear in the linked

articles.