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Children in Camp X-Ray

I’ll go out on a limb here in guessing the identity of the children being held by the US at Guantanamo.
In March the US captured Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. The previous September Pakistani authorities had detained his two children – aged 7 and 9! – and at the start of March they were turned over to the CIA and flown to an ‘undisclosed location’ in the USA. The idea is that they will be “used to get their father to talk”. In other words, he is being led to believe they are in danger (being tortured?) in order to encourage him to talk. More details of this – with an appropriate sense of outrage – are available at Talk Left.
If I’m wrong in my guess, of course, that makes at least two sets of children being detained in ‘dubious’- read illegal – circumstances.
Words fail me. I mean, what can you say? Not only is ‘Camp X-Ray’ operating in a ‘non-judicial’ arena; not only have prisoners been photographed in humiliating circumstances; not only is the US using interrogation of children as a psychological weapon against parents; now the US is managing to merge all of these things.
(Thanks to Metafilter for bringing the new story to my attention.)