Secret detention for children of suspected terrorists?

Dear all,

Just heard an interview with a spokesperson from Amnesty International on the radio. Looked up the exact press statement and the documents to which it refers. (Here: http://www.amnesty.nl/voor_de_pers_artikel/20216

and here:

http://www.amnesty.nl/documenten/rapporten/US%20Responsibility%20for%20Enforced%20Disappearances%20in%20the%20War%20on%20Terror.pdf)

In this last document look at page 19, which documents cases of secret detention by the USA of relatives and children of suspected terrorists is described, including the "treatment" they received. These are well documented cases and all the (part circumstancial) evidence shows that this is not a hoax.

I (almost) have no words to describe my outrage at a policy that incarcerates young children (as young as 6 years old), denies them food, subjects them to insects crawling over their body, all in an effort to find out the whereabouts of their father and perhaps to make him expose himself such that security forces can apprehend them. I may be biased as a parent, but I find that perverse, morally bankrupt, despiccable, cowardly and loathsome. This policy of secret detention is already immoral imho, but to apprehend innocent children is below everything.
What is most cynical is the statement to the effect that

"We are handling them with kid gloves. After all, they are only little children...but we need to know as much about their father's recent activities as possible. We have child psychologists on hand at all times and they are given the best of care."

What the fuck?!? As if the presence of some psychologists makes it OK to subject children to such treatment?!? Imagine it were your being picked up by the CIA and subjected to such treatment because they need to know as much as possible of your recent activities. Fucking cowards!

Sorry to be so explicit...