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ACLU, HRW at it again
 Two leading US-based civil and human rights groups released a new report Monday, accusing the US Department of Justice of wrongly detaining at least 70 Muslim men and denying them their lawful rights.| O dear. And after the GTMO gulags, we get another helping of guilt... |
The new 101-page report, released by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, said the Bush administration rounded up and detained the Muslim men indefinitely without any charges and on baseless accusations of terrorist links. According to the report, the Department of Justice relied on false or faulty evidence and said the men were typically arrested at gunpoint, held around the clock in solitary confinement, and subjected to the "harsh and degrading high-security conditions usually reserved for prisoners convicted of the most dangerous crimes." "These men were victims of a Justice Department that was willing to do an end run around the law," said Jamie Fellner, a director at Human Rights Watch, in a statement...In addition, both rights groups said many of the detainees were not informed of the reasons for their arrest and were not permitted to see the evidence used against them. - The exact number of so-called material witnesses detained has not been released by the Justice Department, but the report said the majority of the men were found to be from the Middle East and all were Muslim except for one. The report said, "One cannot help but ask whether ignorance and prejudice about Muslims in the United States has helped color the analysis of the government in these cases." Anjana Malhotra, one of the reports authors, believes prejudice played a role in these detentions. "Muslim men were arrested for little more than attending the same mosque as a September 11th hijacker or owning a box-cutter," she said.| Words fail me. Fisking would be too good for this piece of drivel. It's the anti-American prejudice and willful ignorance that will lose this war, not our detention of men intent on jihad. |
Posted by: Seafarious 2005-06-28 |
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