US RIGHTS GROUPS UP IN ARMS OVER DETENTIONS

Human Rights Watch and the ACLU – what a lovely couple – are upset that 70 people were held as "witnesses" after the 9/11 attacks:

The United States detained dozens of US-based Muslim men without charge following the September 11, 2001 attacks, on baseless accusations of terrorist links, said US rights groups.

The US Justice Department held the men under a federal law allowing the arrest and detention of witnesses thought to have important information and considered to be flight risks, said Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union.

In a 101-page report, the groups said only a "handful" of the men were later charged with terrorism-related charges, with about half of the detainees never brought to testify.

It was a hefty handful, as you'll discover if you read through to the 14th, and last, paragraph:

Only 28 people were charged with offences and just seven charged with providing material support to terrorist bodies, according to the groups.

Seems like a pretty decent haul to me.