Gitmo Is Small Potatoes

It was bad enough to read Bush was still detaining approximately 490 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Prison, but that's nothing.

It seems the US and British forces are holding 14,000 prisoners [not a typo] in Iraq.

Detainees in Iraq are still being tortured and denied their rights three years after the Abu Ghraib scandal, Amnesty International says.

Amnesty said that more than 14,000 people were being held in custody by US and British forces without charges or being produced before courts - a breach of international law. [emphasis mine]

And, of course, there is torture. Saddam left behind some really nice people who are now in Iraq's Interior Ministry.

The report highlights recent cases of torture by Iraqi forces - especially by people linked to the Iraq Interior Ministry - as being of "concern".

The problem is, if they have evidence against these people they should be tried, but they aren't even being charged. They are just scooped up and held indefinitely.

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