From the Christian Science Monitor comes this:
The Australian reported Monday that lawyer Stephen Kenny told a legal convention that the existence of the tapes came to light after a member of the US military, who had been told to masquarade as a prisoner during a training session at Guantánamo, was beaten so badly he reportedly suffered brain damage.
The Guardian also reported on the existence of interrogation tapes in May, 2004. US military officials confirmed their existence at that time.
Mr. Kenny said that the American Center for Civil Liberties is pressing for the tapes to be released after a report alleged that a "secret military review" of only 20 hours of the tapes found "10 substantial cases of abuse."
CSMonitor reporter Tom Regan writes further:
Also last week, Newsweek reported that four women interrogators have been recalled to active duty and may face military court-martials because of their involvement with abusive interrogation techniques. The Miami Herald reported last Wednesday that Army Gen. Bantz Craddock, chief of Miami's Southern Command, could not confirm the report that "investigators have turned up some evidence of abuses" at Guantánamo Bay.
Meanwhile on Aljazeera.net comes this report:
A US soldier accused of beating an Afghan civilian to death in 2002 should not be held solely responsible because authority figures used the same tactics, his attorney says.
Further in the report:
Brand is accused of beating Dilawar to death over a five-day period at Bagram Control Point just north of Kabul. An autopsy showed that Dilawar's legs were so damaged by blows that amputation would have been necessary if he had survived.
Dilawar died from "blunt force trauma to the lower extremities complicating coronary artery disease", according to a US Army report dated 6 July 2004.
"I thought [Monday's hearing] went reasonably well, like a dental appointment," Private First Class Willie Brand, 377th Military Police Company. Galligan said the knee-strike technique is a "non-lethal mechanism utilised to ensure compliance with a combative detainee".
The reports continue to come out that abuse and torture of men, women, and children by US military and intelligence units on bases, especially GitMo and Bagram.
The facts are plain that this is not the random acts of a few people but are interrogation techniques for specific purposes. The underlying ideology of using a specific torture methodology with Muslim men, women and children shows that Gen. Boykin's speeches at Christian churches have more then a grain of truth of this being not a "war on terror" but a "war between Christian and Muslim".
(Gen. Boykin is remembered as the former commander of U.S. Special Forces during the crisis in Mogadishu, Somalia. The film, "Black Hawk Down", is during Boykin's tenure as commander there.)
As other bloggers have commented on, it is that Senator Ken Salazar has a special obligation to the people of Colorado who worked on his campaign and those who voted for him, to the people of the United States, and especially to the Constitution is for him to hold Alberto Gonzales responsible and accountable for the on going abuses and torture of those who have been arrested, captured, or "disappeared".
Contrary to Mr. Gonzales' "fig leaf" protestations of this administration adhereing to the letter of U.S. law, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and to the Geneva Conventions there is ample proof that this is not so both in word and deed.
The Australian reported Monday that lawyer Stephen Kenny told a legal convention that the existence of the tapes came to light after a member of the US military, who had been told to masquarade as a prisoner during a training session at Guantánamo, was beaten so badly he reportedly suffered brain damage.
The Guardian also reported on the existence of interrogation tapes in May, 2004. US military officials confirmed their existence at that time.
Mr. Kenny said that the American Center for Civil Liberties is pressing for the tapes to be released after a report alleged that a "secret military review" of only 20 hours of the tapes found "10 substantial cases of abuse."
CSMonitor reporter Tom Regan writes further:
Also last week, Newsweek reported that four women interrogators have been recalled to active duty and may face military court-martials because of their involvement with abusive interrogation techniques. The Miami Herald reported last Wednesday that Army Gen. Bantz Craddock, chief of Miami's Southern Command, could not confirm the report that "investigators have turned up some evidence of abuses" at Guantánamo Bay.
Meanwhile on Aljazeera.net comes this report:
A US soldier accused of beating an Afghan civilian to death in 2002 should not be held solely responsible because authority figures used the same tactics, his attorney says.
Further in the report:
Brand is accused of beating Dilawar to death over a five-day period at Bagram Control Point just north of Kabul. An autopsy showed that Dilawar's legs were so damaged by blows that amputation would have been necessary if he had survived.
Dilawar died from "blunt force trauma to the lower extremities complicating coronary artery disease", according to a US Army report dated 6 July 2004.
"I thought [Monday's hearing] went reasonably well, like a dental appointment," Private First Class Willie Brand, 377th Military Police Company. Galligan said the knee-strike technique is a "non-lethal mechanism utilised to ensure compliance with a combative detainee".
The reports continue to come out that abuse and torture of men, women, and children by US military and intelligence units on bases, especially GitMo and Bagram.
The facts are plain that this is not the random acts of a few people but are interrogation techniques for specific purposes. The underlying ideology of using a specific torture methodology with Muslim men, women and children shows that Gen. Boykin's speeches at Christian churches have more then a grain of truth of this being not a "war on terror" but a "war between Christian and Muslim".
(Gen. Boykin is remembered as the former commander of U.S. Special Forces during the crisis in Mogadishu, Somalia. The film, "Black Hawk Down", is during Boykin's tenure as commander there.)
As other bloggers have commented on, it is that Senator Ken Salazar has a special obligation to the people of Colorado who worked on his campaign and those who voted for him, to the people of the United States, and especially to the Constitution is for him to hold Alberto Gonzales responsible and accountable for the on going abuses and torture of those who have been arrested, captured, or "disappeared".
Contrary to Mr. Gonzales' "fig leaf" protestations of this administration adhereing to the letter of U.S. law, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and to the Geneva Conventions there is ample proof that this is not so both in word and deed.
posted by Ken at 11:33 AM
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