Otherwise Dealt With

Chalmers Johnson

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Four years ago, on 28 January 2003, in his State of the Union address to Congress, George Bush referred to the prisoners – more than ten and a half thousand of them – the United States had taken into custody in the course of the war in Afghanistan and the so-called war on terror. Not all were in prison, he said: some had been ‘otherwise dealt with’. ‘Let’s put it this way,’ he continued, ‘they are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies.’

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[2] www.usaasa.belvoir.army.mil/calp/calpdec05.htm

[3] The case of Abu Omar will be discussed by John Foot in a future issue.