Both are indefensible

Before the warbloggers get too whipped up into a frenzy (I know...too late) about the Al Jazeera film of the US captives, they may want to remember this as well as the pictures of prisoners held off-shore, in Guantanamo Bay.

Prison camp pictures spark protests

The US Government has released photographs of the Taleban and al-Qaeda suspects held at its prison camp in Cuba which show them being subjected to sensory deprivation.

The prisoners are shown kneeling down, wearing goggles, ear muffs, surgical masks and heavy gloves.

The chief medical officer of the human rights group, Amnesty International, Jim West, said the photographs were reminiscent of torture methods used in eastern Europe in the 1970s.