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"Nearly 60 countries signed a treaty on Tuesday that bans governments from holding people in secret detention, but the United States and some of its key European allies were not among them." AP byJamey Keaton, 2/2/07

This goes right along with the Bush Refusal to sign onto the World Court of Justice, the immunity enjoyed by "security contractors" in Iraq, the Trial of the deposed head of state Saddam Hussain in the court of the NEW head of state, and not at the Hague.

A spokesman for the state department, Sean McCormak is quoted as declining to respond to a question regarding the policy of sending Terrorism suspects to overseas CIA run prisons.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbor says the treaaty is a step toward preventing injustice.

Argentina, a nation with death squads and disappearances abounding a few years ago signed the document in Paris.
"The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different." ~Mahatma Gandhi
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