by Elaine Cassel

CounterPunch

03/08/05

If Abu Ali's case does end in a plea agreement -- or, worse, in a precedent blessing this prosecution as constitutional -- Americans' rights will have been very significantly diminished. Such a result will mean that this nightmare is viewed as an entirely legal reality: The U.S. can work with a foreign government to arrest and imprison a U.S. citizen and torture him. It can allow the imprisonment to go on indefinitely; Abu Ali's took over twenty months...

http://www.counterpunch.org/cassel03082005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp