U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14,000

This is unnecessary, shameful and an outrage against the entire civilized world.

We, at the Lantern, condemn these actions in the strongest terms and demand that the people who ordred this kind of activity be held accountable to the fullest extent of existing law, both constitutional and international.

U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14,000 - Yahoo! News:

BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law.

Disclosures of torture and long-term arbitrary detentions have won rebuke from leading voices including the U.N. secretary-general and the U.S. Supreme Court. But the bitterest words come from inside the system, the size of several major U.S. penitentiaries.

'It was hard to believe I'd get out,' Baghdad shopkeeper Amjad Qassim al-Aliyawi told The Associated Press after his release, without charge, last month. 'I lived with the Americans for one year and eight months as if I was living in hell.'

Captured on battlefields, pulled from beds at midnight, grabbed off streets as suspected insurgents, tens of thousands now have passed through U.S. detention, the vast majority in Iraq.