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http://www.dailystarnews.com/200201/20/n2012013.htm#BODY9 US anti-terror war stirs HR concerns Reuters, Washington/Kabul US efforts to hunt down terror suspects around the world after the September 11 attacks prompted fresh concern among rights watchdogs on Friday when American troops seized six Algerians in Bosnia. The leading suspect, Osama bin Laden, is still at large, but Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf sparked a new round of speculation about his fate when he said the al-Qaida leader could have died from kidney failure. The White House said it would welcome news of the death of the presumed mastermind behind the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon that killed about 3,100 people, but said the United States had no idea what had happened to him. In Sarajevo, the US Embassy said American forces had taken custody of six Algerians detained by Bosnian authorities in October on suspicion of involvement in terrorism but released this week by a local court. The six are to be transferred to a US internment camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where more than 100 captives from the war in Afghanistan against the Taliban and al-Qaida are already being held. Human rights groups have criticized conditions at the camp captives are held in chain-link enclosures and are not accorded prisoner of war status and the seizure of the six men in Bosnia prompted a fresh outcry. "It's very disappointing," Madeleine Rees, head of the Bosnia office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said of the US action. "It violates the rule of law." The US Embassy said Washington acted because the six "Posed a credible security threat to US personnel and facilities and demonstrated involvement in international terrorism." In New York, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, without referring directly to the prisoner transfer, said governments should not violate human rights in the war on terrorism.
