Children as young as seven years old were 'forcibly disappeared' by the CIA, according to report published today jointly by six human rights groups naming 39 people who are believed to have been held in secret US custody and whose current whereabouts remain unknown.
The list-drafted by Amnesty International, Cageprisoners, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law, Human Rights Watch, and Reprieve-draws together information from government and media sources, as well as from interviews with former prisoners and other witnesses.
The 21-page briefing paper, Off the Record: U.S. Responsibility for Enforced Disappearances in the "War on Terror," includes detailed information about four people named as "disappeared" prisoners for the first time. The full list of people includes nationals from countries including Egypt, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, and Spain. They are believed to have been arrested in countries including Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and Sudan, and transferred to secret US detention centers.
The report details aspects of the CIA detention program that the US government has actively tried to conceal, such as the locations where prisoners may have been held, the mistreatment they endured, and the countries to which they may have been transferred.
It reveals how suspects' relatives, including wives and children as young as seven, have been held in secret detention. In September 2002, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's two young sons, aged seven and nine, were arrested. According to eyewitnesses, the two were held in an adult detention center for at least four months while U.S. agents questioned the children about their father's whereabouts.
Similarly, when Tanzanian national Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was seized in Gujarat, Pakistan, in July 2004, his Uzbek wife was detained with him.
On September 6, 2006, President George W. Bush revealed that the United States runs a system of secret detention in the “War on Terror,” but he did not disclose how many individuals were secretly detained.
According to the rights groups, enforced disappearances involve violations of treaties binding on the United States, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading reatment or Punishment. They also violate international humanitarian law.
The human rights groups are calling on the Bush administration to put a permanent end to the CIA's secret detention and interrogation program, and to disclose the identities, fate, and whereabouts of all detainees currently or previously held at secret facilities operated or overseen by the US government as part of the "War on Terror."
How many children?
How many children disappeared as a result of 9/11, buried under the rubble of the world trade center?
How many children disappear as a result of Palestinian terrorism in Israel?
How many children disappeared during the Saddam era?
How many girl-children are 'disappeared' by muslims around the world for 'honor' ?
CIA agents are human. They make mistakes. But there mistakes are only a fraction as destructive as the actions of the terrorists they are fighting.
Reading the article, it seems that the 'disappeared' children are relatives of the terrorists. It is entirely possible that CIA are hiding the children for their own safety. If they were left to grow up with their terror-crazed parents, they would've ended up as little terrorists blowing themselves up and taking thousands of innocents with them.
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You are a fucking brainwashed moron. Go back to bed.
K thx.
WAKE UP CALL
CIA are the biggest terrorists organization in the world. They terrorize so many governments and people, it's ridiculous that an individual that can read doesn't know it.
you are another zionist blogger
How many, how many. You are obviously a snivelling filthy zionist. Tit for tat is a fools game.
The fact is the USA, like illegal zionist israel, is no better than a terrortist - they too are terrorists.
Detaining children is one sick and evil act. Rot in hell the lot of you
So the end justifies the means?
So we will just scale up the murders? That type of reasoning is a fascist/communist one.
How about we stay the fuck away from everybody else's business and worry about our own?
The new American R3volution is coming and we will phase out the neo-con and neo-liberal tyrants which kills, murders, steals and rapes the world.
We are fighting a war for the elitist bankers and business interest, if you cannot see that then I would recommend you to do some research.
Let's save this country from the debt machine and restore the government for the people.
RESTORE THE REPUBLIC FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE!!!
note to o-bs-ama
Just a note. surprisingly, I think that no children died in 9/11. Just a lucky break, but there were no kids in the World Trade center, the planes involved, or in the Pentagon. (not that there weren't lots of orphans)
Oh, I also agree with you that it is shameful that so many children are victims of Saddam, Terrorists and Muslims in general, but, we don't make things right by victimizing more children. (Remember, children are the victims...not the perpetrators.) So, if the CIA holds a child in detention secretly...that is a crime and it needs to be exposed, not justified.
No children died on 9/11?
No children died on 9/11? You're wrong.
"The dead included 8 children: 5 on American 77 ranging in age from 3 to 11, 3 on United 175 ages 2, 3, and 4.[39] The youngest victim was a 2 year-old child on Flight 175, the oldest an 82 year-old passenger on Flight 11. In the buildings, the youngest victim was 17 and the oldest was 79." (Wikipedia)
Flight 77: "Three 11-year-old schoolchildren (Bernard Brown, Asia Cottom, and Rodney Dickens) embarking on an educational trip to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as part of a program funded by the National Geographic Society." (Wikipedia)
Bernard Brown's father was at work at the Pentagon when the plane crashed.
(The CIA's actions regarding the kids are disgusting, as is the "They kill our kids why can't we harm theirs!" attitude you responded to, I'm just correcting your statement about children on 9/11)
It seems the White House
It seems the White House gang is running a worldwide kidnapping/extortion/murder ring, and we only had to mortgage our children's future to pay for it. Good deal! Not.
BS!
Spreading your lies, you ask "How many children disappear as a result of Palestinian terrorism in Israel?"
"118 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 934 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000." Source: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
The IDF scum love to shoot kids. Google "Iman Al-Hams" for a particularly egregious example.
CIA, business-as-usual
CIA 'disappearing' children,yet another infringement on our rights by the gov't. Add it to the ever-growing list of violations:
They violate the 1st Amendment by opening mail, caging demonstrators and banning books like "America Deceived" from Amazon.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns during Katrina.
They violate the 4th Amendment by conducting warrant-less wiretaps.
They violate the 5th and 6th Amendment by suspending habeas corpus.
They violate the 8th Amendment by torturing.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting 2 illegal wars based on lies and on behalf of a foriegn gov't.
Support Dr. Ron Paul and reverse these trends.
Last link (unless Stark County District Library caves to the gov't and drops the title):
America Deceived (book)
Fire with fire...
Its time that, we the "people" started developing our own intelligences and dealing with these sort of illegal places, for if they are outside of the law then fair game in my mind.
Firstly, countries should renege utterly these suspicious "articles" that the US makes them sign, either eexempting them from internatinal law or exempting them from criminality altogether.
Secondly, remove all diplomatic status from the CIA and its covers, once upon a time, even Britain would prosecute a known CIA asset if found spying.
Thirdly, CIA have no power of arrest or detention, therefore if they are there attempting to kidnap you, you have the right of self defence.
And lastly, fight fire with fire as far as I am concerned... only then will America start to feel the pinch.
I believe that countries democracies must start to develop legislation to fight corporatism, that it is a crime for a politician to favour a business interest over that of the will of the people and a similar legislation also developed regarding the US, that any politician found placing the US before their mother nation should be convicted of treason and summarily dealt with that way.
CIA are the biggest
CIA are the biggest terrorists
Land of the FUCKED free ya
Land of the FUCKED free ya what ever they want you to think...
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