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NPR: All Things Considered Abuses Possible at Secret U.S. Prisons

"As horrific as the Abu Ghraib abuses were, experts say that at least they occurred at a facility that officially exists. That's in sharp contrast to the secret detention facilities that U.S. military and intelligence officials run for high-level terror suspects. They range from the notorious "Hotel California" in Afghanistan to floating detention facilities on U.S. warships. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports."

redux [06.14.04]
The Observer Secret world of US jails
"The United States government, in conjunction with key allies, is running an 'invisible' network of prisons and detention centres into which thousands of suspects have disappeared without trace since the 'war on terror' began.

In the past three years, thousands of alleged militants have been transferred around the world by American, Arab and Far Eastern security services, often in secret operations that by-pass extradition laws. The astonishing traffic has seen many, including British citizens, sent from the West to countries where they can be tortured to extract information. Anything learnt is passed on to the US and, in some cases, reaches British intelligence."

redux [05.28.04]
The New York Review of Books The Logic of Torture
"What is difficult is separating what we now know from what we have long known but have mostly refused to admit. Though the events and disclosures of the last weeks have taken on the familiar clothing of a Washington scandal�complete with full-dress congressional hearings, daily leaks to reporters from victim and accused alike, and of course the garish, spectacular photographs and videos from Abu Ghraib�beyond that bright glare of revelation lies a dark area of unacknowledged clarity. Behind the exotic brutality so painstakingly recorded in Abu Ghraib, and the multiple tangled plotlines that will be teased out in the coming weeks and months about responsibility, knowledge, and culpability, lies a simple truth, well known but not yet publicly admitted in Washington: that since the attacks of September 11, 2001, officials of the United States, at various locations around the world, from Bagram in Afghanistan to Guantanamo in Cuba to Abu Ghraib in Iraq, have been torturing prisoners."

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