Torture arrives in American lounge-rooms:
"Two former Iraqi detainees tell ABC News in an exclusive interview that they were repeatedly tortured by U.S. forces seeking information about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction.
"Thahee Sabbar and Sherzad Khalid are two of eight men who, with help from the American Civil Liberties Union and the group Human Rights First, are suing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The men claim they were tortured for months, in violation of the U.S. Constitution and international law.
"Khalid told ABC News that U.S. soldiers at one point threatened him with live lions.
'They took us to a cage - an animal cage that had lions in it within the Republican Palace,' he said. 'And they threatened us that if we did not confess, they would put us inside the cage with the lions in it. It scared me a lot when they got me close to the cage, and they threatened me. And they opened the door and they threatened that if I did not confess, that they were going to throw me inside the cage. And as the lion was coming closer, they would pull me back out and shut the door, and tell me, 'We will give you one more chance to confess.' And I would say, 'Confess to what?''
"Two former Iraqi detainees tell ABC News in an exclusive interview that they were repeatedly tortured by U.S. forces seeking information about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction.
"Thahee Sabbar and Sherzad Khalid are two of eight men who, with help from the American Civil Liberties Union and the group Human Rights First, are suing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The men claim they were tortured for months, in violation of the U.S. Constitution and international law.
"Khalid told ABC News that U.S. soldiers at one point threatened him with live lions.
'They took us to a cage - an animal cage that had lions in it within the Republican Palace,' he said. 'And they threatened us that if we did not confess, they would put us inside the cage with the lions in it. It scared me a lot when they got me close to the cage, and they threatened me. And they opened the door and they threatened that if I did not confess, that they were going to throw me inside the cage. And as the lion was coming closer, they would pull me back out and shut the door, and tell me, 'We will give you one more chance to confess.' And I would say, 'Confess to what?''
8 Comments:
That's your empire in action, spreading freedom and democracy everywhere it goes.
Blowback has a new name.
Funny how Antony believes anything that gives the USA a bad name.
It is only antisemitism when you believe anything that gives Israel a bad name.
Pretty much? What does that mean?
Either it has been proven true or not.
So far it has not been proven true.
So your pretty much fibbing?
We know what Khalid's reason to lie could be. What's yours?
Anybody?
Nothing about lions. mmmmm.
Yes, you should have made that clear. No one doubts that Navy Seals are guilty of persuading people of giving up information that they don't want to. They are trained for it.
And the usual method of determining time of death and to ensure a thermometer is not broken via rigor mortis or deliberate biting is by using it anally.
Seals do not need to be that acurate. The ass will do just fine.
This is not cool calculated torture in a prison cell with tons of time to spare.
And torture doesn't work in confessions.
But it does work some other times. Not that I'm condoning it. But I'd be awfully tempted to torture a failed suicide bomber to get every bit of information out of him. Awfully tempted.
Now you go down the slippery slope of deciding just who has already shown disregard for their own life, as well as the lives of others.
And who determines just what that deed was.
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