The secret world of US jails

[dArKeR]

The United States government, in conjunction with key allies, is running an "invisible" network of prisons and detention centres into which thousands of suspects have disappeared without trace since the "war on terror" began.

In the past three years, thousands of alleged militants have been transferred around the world by American, Arab and Far Eastern security services, often in secret operations that bypass extradition laws. The astonishing traffic has seen many, including British citizens, sent from the West to countries where they can be tortured to extract information. Anything learnt is passed on to the US and, in some cases, reaches British intelligence.

The disclosure of the shadowy system will increase pressure on the administration of US President George Bush over its "cavalier" approach to human rights and will embarrass British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a staunch ally of Bush.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=67795

[RedSock]

1. F*cking A

why do they hate us?

this is exhibit A

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Why, they hate us for our freedoms, don't you remember?

[Tellurian]

2. No wonder, under the clear light of day, Bush needed Gonzales to formulate

a doable plan to emulate what is common tortue in the rest of the prisons.

"You have to break eggs to make omelettes," said one last week.
"The world is a bad place."

...and who made it so?

And Cofer Black, then head of the CIA counterterrorist centre, said last year that "there was a before 9/11 and an after 9/11. After 9/11, the gloves came off."

However, former intelligence officers criticised the new tactics last week. Milton Bearden, who ended a 30-year career with the CIA in 1994, said that coercion does not work.

"You just get all kinds of confessions that turn out to be completely untrue," he said. "And rendition to someone who will torture a suspect is as bad as doing it yourself."

Wahab al-Rawi, whose brother is still being held in Guantanamo Bay, said that he is angry at both the British government and the US government.

"I just want to know how my own government can just give me up to the Americans. Who do these people answer to? I just ask God to punish them, because there is no power on Earth that they seem to be afraid of."

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4. kick

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