betcha didn't know THAT.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law.

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what really bothers me is that if any other country did this, the world would be screaming on it's end to terminate this practice.