Archive for April 10th, 2007
“Surely, Allaah is All-Aware of what they do..”
U.K. captives’ release was `a gift’: IranApril 5.I’m not sure I understand all the hoopla about the 15 British soldiers who were detained by Iran. By all accounts, they were treated humanely and, after some bluster from both sides, released.
In contrast, the United States has kidnapped, arrested and still imprisons thousands of “insurgents” and “enemy combatants” all over the world, in such places as Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and now, it also appears, in Ethiopia. Solitary confinement and torture is widespread. And these suspected terrorists, in particular, are being held in a legal black hole indefinitely, without access to a lawyer or loved ones, the right to a trial or even knowing the case against them. Hundreds were turned in by bounty hunters and paid informants, whose names they do not know.
Which is worse?
