Look At The Scoreboard

Eleven more men detained at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been released and flown to Afghanistan to be set free. This brings the number of prisoners released or deported from Guantanamo to 202. US officials claim 539 remain in custody.

According to a report in The Nation, more than 5,000 foreign nationals have now been arrested and imprisoned by the US government since 9/11. None have been legally convicted of anything to do with terrorism.

For sports fans, that's a scoreline of 5,000 to 0. You tell me who's winning.

While the Pentagon regularly calls Press Conferences to tout exactly how many new "terrorist suspects" have been detained in the latest sweep, it never publicises their subsequent release, or their continued detention without charges or even access to lawyers (see the PsyOps story below for more on this deliberate restriction of information).