Report details secret detentions of US-based Muslim men

[cynatnite]

NEW YORK (AFP) - The US government thrust scores of US-based Muslim men in jail without charge after the September 11, 2001 attacks, US rights groups said in a report.

The men were held behind a veil of secrecy under a US law permitting the arrest and detention of "material witnesses" thought to have important information about a crime and considered likely to flee, the groups said.

"A handful" were later charged with crimes related to terrorism. About half were never brought to testify, and the US government apologized to 13 of the men for wrongfully detaining them, according to the 101-page report.

"Muslim men were arrested for little more than attending the same mosque as a September 11 hijacker or owning a box-cutter," said Anjana Malhotra, a researcher at Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050627/pl_afp/usattacksjusticemuslim_050627131546

[bullimiami]

1. mccarthy redux.

some people still think old joe was a hero and many of them are in charge of our government now.