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Re: How Will We Ever Wash the Stink of GWB Jr. Off?!
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Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:01:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> "Children held at Guantanamo Bay"
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4653978,00.html
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> Children younger than 16 are being held as "enemy combatants" in the
> American detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, the US military admitted
> yesterday, a practice human rights groups condemned as repugnant and illegal.
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> Three boys aged between 13 and 15 are among about 660 inmates at the
> controversial camp, a US military official told the Guardian, on condition
> of anonymity. The official would not disclose their nationalities but said
> they had been brought from Afghanistan this year on suspicion of terrorism.
...they'll be 18 soon enough.
On a related note: As I understand it, the USA is one of only a handful of
countries to execute juvenile offenders in the last decade. The others are:
Congo, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia Nigeria and Yemen. And yes, the USA does
execute more than anyone else.
Scott A
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