UN backing off visiting Gitmo at request of State Dept and Pentagon

[maddezmom]

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Last Thursday Nowak and three other UN human rights experts said they were opening an inquiry into the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where Washington has been holding more than 500 people without trial, and into other such locations.

The United States has neither refused nor granted requests by Nowak's group to visit Guantanamo.

"We have accepted, upon the request of the State Department and Pentagon, to limit our investigation for now to Guantanamo, but even in accepting this we have not had a positive response" to the request for a visit, Nowak said.

He said that if the "investigation into Guantanamo leads us to other things, we will follow them. We will bring up all these matters to the US government and expect Washington to say officially where these camps are."

The use of prison ships would allow investigators to interrogate people secretly and in international waters out of the reach of US law, British security expert Francis Tusa said.

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more: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050628/wl_afp/unrightsusattacks_050628194245

:wtf: is this about? Haven't seen this anywhere else.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Is the UN selling indulgences?

The fact that US dues, when paid, cover a considerable part of the UN's budget does not give the Bush regime the right to torture combat detainees.

This is no time for investigators to back down.

[Oreo]

2. That's not what it says

"We have accepted, upon the request of the State Department and
Pentagon, to limit our investigation for now to Guantanamo, but even in accepting this we have not had a positive response" to the request for a visit, Nowak said.


They're saying they're only going to investigate Gitmo now (if state dept lets them) and if they find anything else (like the ships or Diego Garcia) they will investigate those.

If we didn't bankroll the UN, we'd be up for a few resolutions of our own.

[maddezmom]

3. oops, thanks for clearing that up for me

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