U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14,000 (AP)

BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law. Disclosures of torture and long-term arbitrary detentions have won rebuke from leading voices including the U.N. secretary-general and the U.S. Supreme Court " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> U.S. Supreme Court . But the bitterest ...