A wet popping sound

In its 2004 country report on human rights for Yemen, the US State Department criticised Yemen's continued use of detention without trial, saying that "arbitrary arrest and prolonged detention without charge remained common practices" and

There were reports that an unknown number of supporters of the rebel Shi'ite cleric Al-Houthi remained in detention. According to Amnesty International (AI), security forces conducted mass arrests in Sa'da Province, as a result of the June conflict. AI reported that those arrested have been detained incommunicado. There were no trials held by year's end.

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During the year, the Government continued to detain suspects, accused of links to terrorism. The Government did not publish numbers of detainees held under suspicion of terrorist affiliations or activities; however, estimates ranged between 200 and 400 individuals.

And now we learn from Amnesty International that the US government is soliciting exactly this sort of behaviour, by insisting on permanant detention without trial as a condition of suspected terrorists being "released" from their secret gulag.

That wet popping sound you just heard was my head exploding from hypocrisy overload...