20 Mar 2007

US Torture


See this good collection of clips: "Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and the C.I.A." with the man with the hood.


Just to remind you why people all over the world don't like the US war in Iraq...


Torture in Iraq may be worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein, with militias, terrorist groups and government forces disregarding rules on the humane treatment of prisoners, the U.N. anti-torture chief said Thursday.


Manfred Nowak, the U.N. special investigator on torture, made the remarks as he was presenting a report on detainee conditions at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay as well as to brief the U.N. Human Rights Council, the global body’s top rights watchdog, on torture worldwide. MSNBC 2006



"no law or treaty bars the President from ordering the torture of children of suspected suspects, including crushing the testicles of a suspected terrorists child."


"Torture Memos", a U.S. Dept. of Justice Memo from Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, Wikipedia on Yoo, also read this interview with Yoo
and here the US gouvernement (NSA) on this issue:"The Interrogation Documents"