Half-truths that cloak a lawless world of depravity

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http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=66627&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26

<snip>Whatever the truth of the report, the details conform to a pattern that is becoming disturbingly familiar. Allegations are made about an abduction, a prison or torture that are dismissed by ministers of the country accused – the US or Britain – as “fantastical” or “absurd”. Which, of course, they are to anyone without an inkling of the parallel twilight world.

But then there emerges, if not cast-iron proof, at least evidence that makes the charges plausible. The snatched photos of the cages at Guantanamo. The photographs of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. The account of the German citizen who – the US finally admitted privately to the Germans – was spirited to Afghanistan for questioning while on a private trip to the Balkans. The Canadian citizen – alluded to in the US embassy “clarification” – who was detained in the US and flown to Syria, where he says he was tortured.

What is more, a close reading of the official denials in each and every case shows that, technically, no untruths have been uttered. Thus Straw, dismissing allegations about the Pakistanis in Greece, said that “no UK officials had taken part in any alleged mistreatment in Greece of any suspects ... and we were not involved in the arrest or detention of those particular suspects”. Every phrase leaves a gaping loophole. In Europe last month, the US Secretary of State was as deceptively precise when pressed about “extraordinary rendition”.

Others couch their denials as ignorance. Blair has repeatedly failed to give a straight answer to questions about possible British government complicity. But seeing nothing, hearing nothing and saying nothing is becoming less and less of an option. We trust that, as the victims are emboldened to speak out and parliamentary inquiries multiply, the true depravity of this murky parallel world will be exposed. – The Independent

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1. What an outrageous article!

The govt would never do such things...would they..?