The shoe shopper and the daughter of a PM

[deminks]

Rice says US erred in Canadian's arrest

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071024/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_canada_torture_3

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledged on Wednesday that the United States mishandled the case of a Canadian engineer seized by U.S. officials and taken to Syria, where he and the Canadian government say he was tortured.

Rice, speaking at a congressional hearing, said the Bush administration has told Canada "that we will try to do better in the future."

"We do not think that this case was handled as it should have been. We do absolutely not wish to transfer anyone to any place in which they might be tortured," she said.

When asked whether the U.S. relied on diplomatic assurances from Syria that the engineer, Maher Arar, would not be tortured, Rice said she would respond later because her memory of certain details "has faded a bit."

Faded a bit? Faded a bit?

And then there is this:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/PMs_daughter_exposes_torture_in_US_jails/articleshow/2488344.cms

PM's daughter exposes torture in US jails

NEW YORK: Amrit Singh, the US-based daughter of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has co-authored a book which gives substantial evidence that torture and abuse of prisoners in US detention centres abroad was widespread and systemic and not confined to Abu Ghraib in Iraq.

The book, Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond, has been co-authored by Amrit Singh, an attorney who works for the American Civil Liberties Union and Jameel Jaffer, also an ACLU attorney.

The book says torture and abuse of prisoners held in US detention centres abroad was not perpetrated by "anomalous sadists", as claimed by the Bush administration.




http://in.news.yahoo.com/071024/43/6mbze.html

Manmohan's daughter exposes 'systemic' torture in US prisons

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'The documents show that senior officials endorsed the abuse of prisoners as a matter of policy -- sometimes by tolerating it, sometimes by encouraging it, and sometimes by expressly authorising it,' the book says.

'Administration of Torture' is the most detailed account so far of what reportedly took place in American prisons abroad.

Records from Guantanamo describe prisoners shackled in excruciating 'stress positions', held in freezing-cold cells, forcibly stripped, hooded, terrorised with military dogs and deprived of human contact for months. Files from Afghanistan and Iraq describe prisoners who had been beaten, kicked and burned.

Yet, autopsy reports declare the deaths in US custody as homicides resulting from strangulation, suffocation and blunt-force injuries.

[valerief]

1. I just read this and I can't remember it. Am I becoming a neocon?

Gee, I hope I remember to pay my taxes.

[annabanana]

2. And this Canadian is STILL not allowed into the US. .

Even after we've admitted that we screwed him over so soundly.

Astounding isn't it?

[deminks]

3. Astounding, yes. At the very least, an apology is due, if GW were a real man,

and his 'wife' didn't have memory lapses.