Seeded from economist.com by Alex on 10/5/07

HAULED before a military tribunal at the American naval base in Guantánamo Bay, the detainee, picked up in Afghanistan, asked why he was being held. For associating with a member of al-Qaeda, he was told. Give me his name, the detainee demanded. The tribunal’s president said he didn’t know it. Nor did any of the tribunal’s other members. “How can I respond to this?” the detainee cried before being taken back to his cell to continue his detention, perhaps for the rest of his life.

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