EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS - EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS - on a Caribbean island. "Foreign Secretary Jack Straw
told the BBC the UK Government would not automatically protest against detainees
reportedly being ill-treated en route on Guantanamo Bay":

With regards the men being shackled and possibly hooded on the
plane, he said he had not protested because of the "special circumstances"
of the accusations against them. "I defy anybody to say how you could transport
potentially profoundly dangerous prisoners other than by wholly restraining
them and ensuring that they couldn't signal with each other."

Rather.

Posted by Moira Breen at January 15, 2002 07:44 AM