Obama Continues "Extraordinary Rendition"

Here is a BBC report that the US continues the Bush policy of seizing people around the world and shipping them to Afghanistan where they are held and tortured at Bagram airbase.



Is this the "change" that Obama promised? Where is the shame in America about its inhumane and brutal treatment of people?

More details from the BBC website:

Since coming to office US President Barack Obama has banned the use of torture and ordered a review of policy on detainees, which is expected to report next month.

But unlike its detainees at the US naval facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the prisoners at Bagram have no access to lawyers and they cannot challenge their detention.

The inmates at Bagram are being kept in "a legal black-hole, without access to lawyers or courts", according to Tina Foster, executive director of the International Justice Network, a legal support group representing four detainees.

She is pursuing legal action that, if successful, would grant detainees at Bagram the same rights as those still being held at Guantanamo Bay.

But the Obama administration is trying to block the move.