"So the men sit there, day after day. It has been a year now. It could well be many more."

That is the last paragraph of a BBC Interactive story called "No fast track at Guantanamo Bay". This story has not recieved wide notice by the US media, but the US government is holding around 650 afghani, pakistani, british and australian citizens at a camp at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba. These prisoners have not recieved any legal representation, and they are being held in violation of international law. They are kept in isolation for all but 30 minutes a day. They are regularly questioned by the US government, but according to the article, there is not torture. The most important part of this story is the fact that by the admission of senior defense officials as many as 10% of the prisoners may be innocent. In October three Afghans were sent home. They were farmers at the wrong place at the wrong time.