Word: incommunicado
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...cross between Big Brother and Torquemada. Most recently comes the story of the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepting and monitoring communications from overseas to al-Qaeda operatives in the U.S. This followed reports of "black sites" in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, where high-level al-Qaeda operatives were kept incommunicado and under stress in conditions well below even Motel 6 standards. Which followed reports of various "coercive interrogation" techniques (most notoriously, water boarding, or mock drowning) used to get information out of the likes of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, architect of the 9/11 attacks...
...should step forward and say, "O.K. You got us. We didn't want to talk about this stuff openly, but now you know. We have not been hit again because we've been capturing high-level operatives and getting them to talk in secret prisons, where they're incommunicado and disoriented and desperate. We've been using interrogation techniques that will probably be outlawed by John McCain but have got us important information...
ANTHONY ROMERO 2005 A.C.L.U. executive director and one of TIME's 25 Most Influential Hispanics I nominate "Ghost Detainee X," representing almost 30 prisoners held incommunicado, without legal rights or access to counsel, in a network of secret prisons in Europe and Asia. Their existence raises serious doubts about whether or not we are betraying the best of American values...
...government had already banned the organization in 1960; by 1962 Mandela was under arrest, and two years later he was sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage. Several interesting changes occurred during Mandela's long, long incarceration. For one thing, his enforced isolation slowly transformed him into a mythic figure. Incommunicado, without the opportunity to speak out on specific issues, Mandela in his silence became South Africa's most persuasive presence: an inspiration to blacks, a recrimination to whites. What is more, he sensed the moral power his confinement had conferred. Mandela had always been willing to talk; violence...
...Laden, who is incommunicado anyway, isn't required to authorize such comparatively minor maleficence but merely to inspire it. "The Old Guard is all gone," says a German security official. "We are no longer dealing with the generation [that trained in Afghanistan], a close group of activists who knew each other. We are now dealing with a generation which has kept a low profile." A French official adds that this generation is "learning without leaving"--training to become jihadists right at home, through videos and the Internet. Some radical propaganda videos are now even shot or subtitled in English...