Only Rumors

AFP reports rumors that the U.S. is keeping secret prison ships to hold terrorist suspects.

"The use of prison ships would allow investigators to interrogate people secretly and in international waters out of the reach of US law, British security expert Francis Tusa said.

"'This opens the door to very tough interrogations on key prisoners before it even has been revealed that they have been captured,' said Tusa, an editor for the British magazine Jane's Intelligence Review."

According to the article:

The UN has learned of "very, very serious" allegations that the United States is secretly detaining terrorism suspects in various locations around the world, notably aboard prison ships, the UN's special rapporteur on terrorism said.

While the accusations were rumours, rapporteur Manfred Nowak said the situation was sufficiently serious to merit an official inquiry.

"There are very, very serious accusations that the United States is maintaining secret camps, notably on ships," the Austrian UN official told AFP, adding that the vessels were believed to be in the Indian Ocean region.

"They are only rumours, but they appear sufficiently well-based to merit an official inquiry," he added.

Last Thursday Nowak and three other UN human rights experts said they were opening an inquiry into the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where Washington has been holding more than 500 people without trial, and into other such locations.

Is it a surprise that the UN must look into these "very, very serious accusations"?

Once again, the UN and human rights organizations jump all over the U.S. for suspected violations against alleged terrorists while turning a blind eye to known human rights abuses.

Nevertheless, these prison ship rumors demand immediate attention according to the UN.

Why doesn't the UN get freaked out over the human rights violations under Castro in Cuba?

Why doesn't the UN insist that the Shura Council of the Mujahedin of Iraq stop kidnapping civilians and threatening to kill them?

Why doesn't the UN condemn Muntada al-Ansar and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi for beheading INNOCENT people?

Why doesn't the UN take the genocide in Sudan seriously?

All of these human rights violations and atrocities aren't rumors; they're real. Nonetheless, the focus is on rumors of U.S. abuse of criminals.

The United Nations is a disgrace.