The Red Cross is accusing the U.S. of hiding detainees in secret prisons around the world. It seems that "terror suspects" that were reported by the FBI as having been captured have never turned up in detention centers, and the United States has refused to reply to Red Cross requests for a full list of everyone it is holding.
This isn't the first time these charges have been made against the Bush Administration. Remember U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba? He's the one who initially investigated the prisoner abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. Among other things, General Taguba's report found that military police routinely hold people brought to them by other government agencies without accounting for them, knowing their identities, or even the reason for their detention. According to the Taguba report, these "ghost detainees" are moved around from prison to prison to hide them from the Red Cross and other international agencies.
Welcome to Amerika.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Red Cross suspects U.S. hides detainees
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