deeply ashamed

UN human rights investigators have called for the immediate closure of the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay.

The UN report on conditions in the Cuba camp says the US should try all inmates or free them "without further delay".

Some aspects of the treatment of the 500-strong camp population amount to torture, the UN team alleges.

The US has rejected most of the allegations, saying that the five investigators never actually visited Guantanamo Bay.

It called the report's conclusions "largely without merit and not based clearly in the facts".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4718724.stm

At this point I think neither the UN report nor the US refusal to accept it probably surprise anyone.

also probably news to no one

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Napoleonic wargame

Comrades,

Pictures from the last AOE game I played with Mr Sherwood and Mr Taylor
are at

http://public.fotki.com/winterbadger/pictures_from_aoe_game/

I haven't gotten around to captioning them all yet, but they're pretty
self-explanatory. Yes, bad me that I don't have all the bases flocked or
all the buildings painted. :-(

Jan

a few more photos

Pretty silly, mostly.

Two or three squirrel photos.

And a couple of cat photos.

And some wargaming photos.

AMAZING photographer!

Look at the work of Pathfinder, especially his "competition" shots, and tell me you can't understand why my heart is across the water.