Military Urged To Try or Free 660 Detainees

[Judi Lynn]

Military Urged To Try or Free 660 Detainees
Senators Visit Cuba Center
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 13, 2003; Page A08


Three senators who just returned from visiting the U.S. military's detention center in Cuba urged the Bush administration yesterday to accelerate the trial or release of more than 660 detainees there, including at least 200 men who have been held for more than two years.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who visited the Guantanamo Bay prison Wednesday with Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), said that after such lengthy detentions, the suspects -- all of whom have been held without charge -- had an inherent right to be told of their legal status.

McCain, a prisoner of war in Vietnam, said a senior administration official told him before the trip that the military has been unable to develop cases against more than a third of the detainees and that they will have to be released.

"They are human beings. There is such a thing as human rights," McCain said. (snip/...)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60970-2003Dec12.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. McCain was a POW

andunderstands the psychological torture of being incarcerated without ever knowing if you'd get out.

Doesn't Shrub and Co realize that by having Gitmo, they are inviting disaster for any American who might be taken as a "hostile combatant" by a rogue state?

[velocity]

2. McCain should have been saying this

from the getgo about the POWs, IMHO.

[LiberalFighter]

3. 660 or 666????? I would bet it is 666. It has to be 666