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01-04-2007, 02:44 AM | #1 |
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We used to be a country that stood for human rights.
Now we are a country that tortures. I, along with Human Rights watch, want President Bush to tell us where these 36 missing people are. This is not something that the USA that I know, does. I do not respect countries that extraordinarily render people and send them to be tortured. This is not what my country stands for. “President Bush told us that the last 14 CIA prisoners were sent to Guantanamo, but there are many other prisoners ‘disappeared’ by the CIA whose fate is still unknown,” said Joanne Mariner, terrorism and counterterrorism director at Human Rights Watch. “The question is: what happened to these people and where are they now?” In early September, 14 detainees were transferred from secret CIA prisons to military custody at Guantanamo Bay. In a televised speech on September 6, President Bush announced that with those 14 transfers, no prisoners were left in CIA custody. The former CIA detainee, Marwan Jabour, told Human Rights Watch about a number of other people who were in CIA detention but whose present whereabouts are unknown. Jabour saw one of these men, Algerian terrorism suspect Yassir al-Jazeeri, as recently as July 2006 in CIA custody. “The Bush administration needs to provide a full accounting of everyone who was ‘disappeared’ into CIA prisons, including their names, locations, and when they left US custody,” Mariner said. Human Rights Watch’s letter to Bush contained two lists of missing detainees. The first list names 16 people whom Human Rights Watch believes were held in CIA prisons and whose current whereabouts are unknown. The second list names 22 people who may have been held in CIA prisons and whose current whereabouts are unknown. Marwan Jabour was arrested by Pakistani authorities in May 2004 in Pakistan and held for more than a month at a secret facility in Islamabad operated by both US and Pakistani personnel, during which time he was badly abused. In June, he was flown to another secret prison, which he believes was in Afghanistan, where all or nearly all of the personnel were American. His clothes were taken from him when he arrived, and he was left completely naked for a month and a half, including during questioning by women interrogators and filming. He was chained tightly to the wall of his small cell so that he could not stand up, placed in painful stress positions so that he had difficulty breathing, and told that if he did not cooperate he would be put in a suffocating “dog box.” During the more than two years that he was held in this secret prison, Jabour spent nearly all of his time alone in a windowless cell, with little human contact besides his captors. Although he worried incessantly about his wife and three young daughters, he was not allowed even to send them a letter to reassure them that he was alive. “It was a grave,” Jabour later told Human Rights Watch. “I felt like my life was over.” The wife of another former CIA detainee whose whereabouts remain unknown told Human Rights Watch that she has had to lie to her four children about her husband’s “disappearance.” She explained that she could not bear telling them that she did not know where he was. “What I’m hoping,” she said, “is if they find out their father has been detained, that I’ll at least be able to tell them what country he’s being held in, and in what conditions.” Enforced disappearance involves arbitrary, secret and incommunicado detention, and poses a serious risk to the right to life and to protection from torture and other mistreatment. As these cases make clear, enforced disappearance also inflicts severe mental pain and suffering on the “disappeared” person’s family. US: Secret CIA Prisoners Still Missing (Human Rights Watch, 26-2-2007) |
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01-04-2007, 03:32 AM | #2 |
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01-04-2007, 03:47 AM | #4 |
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01-04-2007, 04:05 AM | #5 |
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01-04-2007, 04:07 AM | #6 |
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Steve's not a liberal. He's a conservative pro gay, anti-Christian. One of a kind.
And I don't agree, obviously, with you, that our country should be engaging in this despicable behaviour. Up until the Bush admin, we officially rose above torture. Now we officially condone and engage in it. I'm disgusted. If you two torture lovers would read the stories about these people who have been tortured, you would find out that they are NOT terrorists. They were suspected and then released, when our torturing government found out they were innocent. But anyone with brown skin speaking Arabic is a terrorist to you right? |
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01-04-2007, 04:19 AM | #7 |
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01-04-2007, 04:21 AM | #8 |
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Steve's not a liberal. He's a conservative pro gay, anti-Christian. One of a kind. |
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01-04-2007, 04:27 AM | #9 |
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i trust the cia more then i trust the people they pick up. stories of prisoners falsly accusing and exagerating thier treatment have come out of guantomno and else where.. all in an effort to tarnish america.. personally i am for torture of people we KNOW to be terrorists but i guess its impossible to tell for sure exactly how guilty a person is. but these methods are not exactly what i would call torture in the medievle sense.. so i am not that bothered by it... let me know if we start raping children and wives infront of people.. removing various body parts.. etc.. then i will be upset.. but only if the guy was innocent. |
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01-04-2007, 04:30 AM | #10 |
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i trust the cia more then i trust the people they pick up. stories of prisoners falsly accusing and exagerating thier treatment have come out of guantomno and else where.. all in an effort to tarnish america.. personally i am for torture of people we KNOW to be terrorists but i guess its impossible to tell for sure exactly how guilty a person is. but these methods are not exactly what i would call torture in the medievle sense.. so i am not that bothered by it... let me know if we start raping children and wives infront of people.. removing various body parts.. etc.. then i will be upset.. but only if the guy was innocent. America is tarnishing itself by torturing people. These methods are not exactly what you would call torture?!?! His clothes were taken from him when he arrived, and he was left completely naked for a month and a half, including during questioning by women interrogators and filming. He was chained tightly to the wall of his small cell so that he could not stand up, placed in painful stress positions so that he had difficulty breathing, and told that if he did not cooperate he would be put in a suffocating “dog box.” Seriously? And you say people come out of Gitmo falsely accusing the US of torturing them? That's weird, because in 2005 the US government admitted to torturing people at Gitmo. And Iraq and Afghanistan. US acknowledges torture at Guantanamo; in Iraq, Afghanistan - UN 06.24.2005, 11:37 AM GENEVA (AFX) - Washington has, for the first time, acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said. The acknowledgement was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee against Torture, said a member of the ten-person panel, speaking on on condition of anonymity. 'They are no longer trying to duck this and have respected their obligation to inform the UN,' the Committee member said. 'They they will have to explain themselves (to the Committee). Nothing should be kept in the dark,' he said. UN sources said this is the first time the world body has received such a frank statement on torture from US authorities. The Committee, which monitors respect for the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, is gathering information from the US ahead of hearings in May 2006. US acknowledges torture at Guantanamo; in Iraq, Afghanistan - UN - Forbes.com So much for being proud of our country.... |
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01-04-2007, 04:32 AM | #11 |
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im sorry if i am more troubled by al quida and the islamic extremist movement, and the tens of thousands dieing through sectarian violence in iraq a and the threat of collapse of various moderate islamic regimes.. the hundreds of thousands dead as a result of islamic radicles then i am of the us government.
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01-04-2007, 04:33 AM | #12 |
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01-04-2007, 04:34 AM | #13 |
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01-04-2007, 04:43 AM | #15 |
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I would expect, and support, a hearty "fuck off" in response. Screw Human Rights Watch. They, and you, don't have a right to know... What you advocate and support has NOTHING to do with the U.S.A. and what the people are about. America isn't about Us vs. Them. It's about the moral foundations this nation was built on. Nationalism is for simple minded fools that mold the world into simplistic terms so they don't have to deal with the complexities of trying to maintain a level of morality that is constantly challenged by elements you glaringly support. It would be hypocritical of me to condemn al'Quaida's methodology and applaud your comments. Your comments and the al'Quaida's actions are both equally morally deficient. The only way anyone can differentiate this is by the flags they carry. Steve, the flag you carry holds no inherit moral high ground, therefore, the repugnant views quoted align with that of al'Quaida's. Perhaps the first step in stopping terrorism is to stop acting like them. |
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01-04-2007, 05:13 AM | #16 |
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01-04-2007, 05:17 AM | #17 |
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01-04-2007, 05:18 AM | #18 |
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01-04-2007, 05:19 AM | #19 |
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