UN Condemns Torture "Camps"
 

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:36:03 -0500, Cliff wrote:

"Diabolical camp must be shut down"
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Calls for an end to the outrage have come from such highly respected figures as
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the former Irish President and UN Commissioner
for Human Rights Mary Robinson, and Britain’s Northern Ireland Minister Peter
Hain.
]

http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/opi...IQHSmeYhNE.asp

"Rumsfeld defended the decision to deny the UN human rights investigators
access ...."

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topic...7&parent_id=56
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“There is no torture, there is no abuse,” Rumsfeld said at the Council on
Foreign Relations in New York. “It’s being handled honourably.”
]
"“He hasn’t been to Guantanamo Bay,” he said of Annan .."
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Rumsfeld defended the decision to deny the UN human rights investigators access
to the prisoners.

“If you start letting every single person who wants to go in and interview these
people, then you can’t manage a facility like that,” he said.
]

Probably has little desire to be tortured ...

"Shut down prison, UN tells US"
http://www.telegraphindia.com/106021...ry_5857921.asp

http://www.notinourname.net/war/torture-21may04.htm
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&hn=29840

http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au...55E912,00.html

".... of the CIA’s secret efforts to develop new forms of torture ... "
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m20751&l=i&size=1&hd=0
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/loca...=69780&ntpid=1

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The Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights watchdog, has
already concluded that the CIA is using the programme to "outsource" torture as
the practice is banned under US law.
]
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/stor...30&p=y7z797736

The European Parliament as well as Archbishop Desmond Tutu are
pestering the poor neocons.

"Guantanamo is a scandal ..."
"The founding fathers of the United States must be turning in their graves at
the constitutional outrage ..."
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Britain's Northern Ireland Minister Peter Hain also stepped up pressure on the
Bush administration Thursday, telling BBC viewers: "I would prefer that it
wasn't there and I would prefer it was closed." Hain, a close ally of Tony
Blair, said the prime minister shared his views.
]
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/se..._2127416.shtml
--
Cliff