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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 07/27/2006 : 13:47:37
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This article is from Human Rights Watch. The key quote is, “The question at this point is not whether Secretary Rumsfeld should resign, it's whether he should be indicted...”quote:
U.S.: Rumsfeld Potentially Liable for Torture
Defense Secretary Allegedly Involved in Abusive Interrogation
(New York, April 14, 2006) – Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could be criminally liable for the torture of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay in late 2002 and early 2003, Human Rights Watch said today.
A December 20, 2005 Army Inspector General's report, obtained by Salon.com this week, contains a sworn statement by Lt. Gen. Randall M. Schmidt that implicates Secretary Rumsfeld in the abuse of detainee Mohammad al-Qahtani. Based on an investigation that he carried out in early 2005, which included two interviews with Rumsfeld, Gen. Schmidt describes the defense secretary as being “personally involved” in al-Qahtani's interrogation.
Human Rights Watch urges the United States to name a special prosecutor to investigate the culpability of Rumsfeld and others in the al-Qahtani case.
“The question at this point is not whether Secretary Rumsfeld should resign, it's whether he should be indicted,” said Joanne Mariner, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program director at Human Rights Watch. “General Schmidt's sworn statement suggests that Rumsfeld may have been perfectly aware of the abuses inflicted on al-Qahtani.”
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/27/2006 15:51:14
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/27/2006 : 23:41:19 [Permalink]
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Oh sweet Sagan I hope this hits the mainstream news in America.
Though I doubt it.  |
"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2006 : 03:08:01 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by marfknox
Oh sweet Sagan I hope this hits the mainstream news in America.
Though I doubt it.
Your doubts are pretty safe, as the date on that article was April 14, 2006.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 07/28/2006 : 05:11:47 [Permalink]
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Secretary who now?
Oh its not about the Middle East? (covers ears) "LA LA LA LA LA LA" |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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