Suspects have disappeared

I hate stuff like this. Because I hate beinbg placed in a position where I have to defend scum, and it is almost a certainty that you are howling into the wind. These suspects are such thoroughly evil people that there is no way that the majority of America will care - and that's understandable. I barely care myself. But that isn't the point.

The point is that this is America and EVERYBODY gets a trial. Timothy McVeigh was also a thoroughly evil person - but he got a trial. He didn't just disappear.

A country where suspects - ANY suspects - simply disappear and the officials don't even acknowledge that they were ever there is NOT America. It is some awful dictatorship of the sort which America has traditionally stood AGAINST.

If stuff like this is allowed to continue without being checked - then the terrorists HAVE won.

At least 11 al Qaeda suspects have "disappeared" in U.S. custody, and some may have been tortured, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.

The prisoners are probably being held outside the United States without access to the Red Cross or any oversight of their treatment, the human rights group said. In some cases, the United States will not even acknowledge the prisoners are in custody.

The report said the prisoners include the alleged architect of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, as well as Abu Zubaydah, who is believed to be a close aide to Osama bin Laden.

In refusing to disclose the prisoners' whereabouts or acknowledge the detentions, Human Rights Watch said, the U.S. government has violated international law, international treaties and the Geneva Convention. The group called on the government to bring all the prisoners "under the protection of the law."