Most Guantanamo captives remain far from release

Thursday, December 30, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Recent legal cases have penetrated the secrecy of the Bush administration's treatment of terrorism detainees, revealing that foreigners who aided al-Qaida can be held indefinitely even if that help was unintentional or evidence of it was produced by torture.

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