By and large, the captives of Camp X-Ray are at best foot soldiers. The overall picture that emerges from reports from abroad, information from diplomatic sources and two months of observation is that ''the worst of the worst'' of Afghanistan's now-defunct Taliban militia or the masterminds of Bin Laden's Al-Qaida movement are not at there. There are at least a couple of exceptions.

The most important captive is Mullah Faisal Mazloom, the former Taliban chief of staff. In his orange jumpsuit, he is indistinguishable from the other 300 prisoners, similarly attired, who can be seen from afar shuffling twice a week to take showers. Also identified is Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, one of the 25 top Al-Qaida military commanders, as one of the inmates here. But Marine officials won't comment on the report.

Anyone supporting a legitimate struggle for liberation and freedom will also be classed as a terrorist.

In addition new measures in Britain’s immigration law relating to loyalty and language tests are intended to affect Muslims from non-English speaking countries also. Unlike the Christians of the past, such as the Abyssinian Kings, who gave sanctity to their guests and protected them with their own lives, Tony Blair is despicably rounding up his countries guests without any evidence of them having even betrayed his hospitality! Even the Bedouins before the Messenger Muhammad never stooped this low. Some 150 plus individuals are thought to have been rounded up following Blunketts ‘visionary’ internment legislature.

We are being told the rest of individuals, who have as yet only been ‘accused’ of being members of Al-Qaida, many of them spuriously taken from Britain and other Western countries to Cuba, are being denied access to their families, lawyers, being shackled, sedated, left in the open to suffer the tortuous weather and generally being treated in a way that if they were animals the RSPCA would have certainly acted by now. This after the American led alliance dropped (and continues to drop) billions of tons of bombs on Afghanistan, killing thousands of innocent civilians in their ‘search for Osama Bin Laden’.

In the meantime we find Britain, as usual, not far behind the Americans. Failing to bring in religious hatred laws (perhaps because statistics have found that Muslims themselves are the main focus of religious hatred not only from the press but also from MPs and so-called ‘authors’ like Salman Rushdie), British MP David Blunkett nevertheless did manage to follow the American example and violate the fundamental sanctities of individuals this side of the Atlantic as much as he could. We find that his law of internment, introduced last Christmas, takes away the right to innocence before guilt. The proscription of many Islamic Movements working to liberate Muslim land under occupation sends the message to their community that this government sides with those violating the property, lives and honor of Muslims around the world.

The stark reality is that despite their protestations of being the victims and defending ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ the US are seen to be the leading violators of those very freedoms and liberties they seek to uphold.

The foreign policy of the United States over the last 100 years has left behind the most atrocious trail of destruction that the world has ever witnessed. This includes, in recent times:

• 3,000,000 slaughtered in Vietnam (1945 - 1974)
  
  
• 3,000,000 genocide in Korea (1950 - 1953)
  
  
• 500,000 murdered in Laos (1965 - 1973)
  
  
• 2,500,000 killed in Cambodia (1969 - 1975)
  
  
• 2,000,000 (mostly children and with the help of the British) exterminated in Iraq

Moreover, the US continue to be the foremost supporters of Israel who have to date carried out numerous massacres and expelled over 6,000,000 Palestinians from their homes with the help of US (and British) military, economic and political support. Not to mention that most of the regimes with which the US are today accusing of committing terrorism and harboring terrorists were armed, encouraged and supported by the US themselves, such as the Taliban, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Iran, Saudi Arabia etc…