A 10 year old boy, held prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, has finally been found innocent after TWO YEARS of INTERROGATION and TORTURE.
Question ... what is wrong with the American government, who obviously at some level ordered and sanctioned the interrogation and torture of a 10 year old boy?
Bigger question ... why has this not been a major story in American mainstream media?
Even bigger Question ... what has happened to the American people? Why is there no hue and cry? Why are they not holding the wingnuts responsible for this action to account?
Just thought I'd ask.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
What are they Thinking?
Posted by Robert Otto at 1:56 a.m.
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Perhaps because the US doesn't torture... who's your source? Al Jazeera?
Source ... oh I don't know. How about Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmit or Marine Lt. Col. Bill Cowan, former CIA Bureau Chief Bob Bior.
Let's toss in for good measure the 2004 Taguba Report which found that between October and Deecember of 2003 there were numerous instances of "sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses at Abu Ghraib.
Don't forget about the published results of an investigation into the torture of Iraqi detainees by The New Yorker columnist Seymour M. Hersh or the 7 soldiers convicted in courts martial between May 2004 and Sept 2005 and sentenced to federal prison time and dishonorably discharged from the service for getting a little carried away in the way in which they "questioned" prisoners.
And because, as you say, the US doesn't torture, the United States Army was forced to activate the 201st Military Intelligence Batalion, the first of 4 joint interrogation batalions in order to prevent torture in the future. Didn't seem to help the kid did it.
As far as Al Jazeera ... I don't know him but I think that I might have had a drink with his half-brother Raoul Jazeera.
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