Al-Arab Blog - مدونة العرب

Najeeb al-Nauimi, a former Qatar justice minister, leads a group of lawyers representing 100 detainees who were sold to the Americans.

He says a consortium of wealthy Arabs are "buying back" fellow citizens kidnapped by Pakistani gangs before they can be sold to the Americans.

More is going on here than merely unintended consequences of a harebrained US policy.

The USA has proven itself to be criminally irresponsible in the use of power. And it keeps demanding more power, including the suspension of normal civil liberties in other coutries as well as inside its own societies in order to better fight "terrorism."

Aside from 9/11, an event of several years ago, the only terrorism the U.S. has experienced is the terrorism Bush created by invading Iraq.

The real terror most Americans experience comes from their own government.