An Italian court on Wednesday convicted 22 CIA operatives and a U.S. Air Force colonel of orchestrating the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in Milan in 2003 and flying him to Egypt, where he said he was later tortured.
The judge in the case, Oscar Magi, said three other Americans, including the former Rome station chief for the CIA, were covered by diplomatic immunity.
The Americans were all tried in abstentia...>>>
Wednesday, 24 June 2009 Allegations of abuse and neglect at a US detention facility in Afghanistan have been uncovered by the BBC.
Former detainees have alleged they were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs at the Bagram military base.
The BBC interviewed 27 former inmates of Bagram around the country over a period of two months.
The Pentagon has denied the charges and insisted that all inmates in the facility are treated humanely.
All the men were asked the same questions and they were all interviewed in isolation.......
Wednesday, 24 June 2009 A BBC investigation has uncovered allegations that prisoners were abused and humiliated at the US-run Bagram military base in Afghanistan.......
A 4-Part report in recognition of tortured survivors and in memory of those murdered by torture. Torture Accountability Day: this Thursday, June 25th
Part 1 Torture Accountability - it’s a family affair
Disappearing citizens a la "School Of Assassins" (SOA) mode, torturing them, including children (even sexually), hanging people from ceilings, water boarding, sleep deprivation, slicing genitals, and raping are more than an embarrassing scandal. These are war crimes.................
Part II. Extraordinary rendition misleading term for kidnap and torture
Up to 80,000 kidnapped people have been 'through the system' since 2001, and 98% of prisoners in U.S. custody overseas are in secret prisons according to Clive Stafford-Smith.
Nature of the kidnapping-torture crime termed “extraordinary rendition” is organized and systematic, as a short testimonial video by Iceandfire and Reprieve reveals.
Executive order to ensure lawful interrogations peace train or FEMA train?............
Last week, two British High Court judges ruled against releasing documents describing the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who is currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. The judges said the Bush administration “had threatened to withhold intelligence cooperation with Britain if the information were made public.”
But The Daily Telegraph reported over the weekend that the documents actually “contained details of how British intelligence officers supplied information to [Mohamed’s] captors and contributed questions while he was brutally tortured.” In fact, it was British officials, not the Americans, who pressured Foreign Secretary David Miliband “to do nothing that would leave serving MI6 officers open to prosecution.” According to the Telegraph’s sources, the documents describe particularly gruesome interrogation tactics:
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Guantanamo "Abandoned Our Values and Defiled Our Constitution!"
Guantanamo 'a stain on US military' Dec 3rd '08
Guantanamo closure plan ordered Dec 19th '08
Former guard on Guantanamo 'torture' Jan 9th '09
The Special Prosecutor Petition
