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The human rights group Amnesty International says at least 150 suspected torturers from other countries are living in the United States. 

Amnesty's U.S. director, WIlliam Schulz, Wednesday accused the U.S. government of simply deporting alleged torturers or ignoring the problem. Instead, he called on the Bush administration to arrest and prosecute torture suspects from other countries found in the United States. 

Amnesty issued a 100-page report noting that a U.S. law makes torture committed anywhere else in the world a criminal offense in the United States.It named 13 people it says are known suspects who live in the United States and are accused of involvement in torture in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras and Somalia. 

Amnesty says it has identified, but will not disclose the names of dozens of other foreigners in the United States suspected of committing torture or other human rights abuses.U.S. officials had no immediate comment. 

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