More Bush, Cheney, Rummy screw-ups or out-right crimes, I imagine, are about to hit the fan.
Philadelphia Inquirer 04/21/2006 IDs from Guantanamo raise nations' outcry:
"KABUL, Afghanistan - A chorus of complaints against the United States erupted yesterday after the Pentagon released a previously secret list of the names and citizenship of 558 people held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay.
Afghanistan's peace and reconciliation commission vowed to send a delegation to the prison to make sure Afghans were not being mistreated. China demanded custody of a group of Uighur separatists, to be prosecuted on terrorism charges.
The list, released Wednesday under orders of a federal judge in a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by the Associated Press, may provide the first proof of life to families whose relatives have disappeared, the International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday. There are now about 490 detainees from about 40 countries at the base.
The Red Cross, which is the only outside agency the United States has allowed to visit the Guantanamo detainees and check on their conditions, previously had access to the list but was not allowed to make it public. Chief spokeswoman Antonella Notari could not cite specific cases but said it was possible that families would now discover that their relatives had been among the detainees."
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