America, home of the illegally incarcerated (and something noble to export to the world):
The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being “unlawful enemy combatants” in detention centers in Iraq and has about 10 detained in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.
A total of 2,500 youths under the age of 18 have been detained, almost all in Iraq, for periods up to a year or more in President George W. Bush’s anti-terrorism campaign since 2002, the United States reported last week to the UN’s Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Civil liberties groups such as the International Justice Network and the American Civil Liberties Union denounced the detentions as abhorrent, and a violation of U.S. treaty obligations.
And Australia only locked up 4,000 of them for the crime of being refugees and Israel has hundreds of them locked up on any given day.
Ant. Did you watch Media Watch. They finally exposed the Israeli lobby for getting O’Loughlin’s very excellent and sad last piece spiked in the Herald.
I wrote to them when Cohen’s false rant appeared unattributed and then the Palestinians had a disclaimer on it and they told me to get stuffed because it was not bias for one to lie and the other to tell the truth and have to say it was only his opinion.
This display from the coward Alan Oakley is shameful.