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Monday, 16 November 2009 09:59 |
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Portrait of 9/11 ‘Jackal’ Emerges as He Awaits Trial
In a front page article of several thousand words about KSM and his upcoming trial The New York times finds itself unable to mention that he has served as an unwilling laboratory for torture techniques. The article cites testimony obtained by torture but conveniently fails to mention how it was obtained. The New York Times characterizes KSM’s false information given during his torture as an example of KSM “ demonstrating his tendency toward grandiosity”. In all of this verbiage, the article has this and only this to say about his torture:
“Mr. Mohammed’s initial defiance toward his captors set off an interrogation plan that would turn him into the central figure in the roiling debate over the C.I.A’s interrogation methods. He was subjected 183 times to the near-drowning technique called waterboarding, treatment that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has called torture. But advocates of the C.I.A’s methods, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, have said that the interrogation methods produced a trove of information that helped dismantle Al Qaeda and disrupt potential terrorism attacks.”
For information about the torture of KSM, which is evidently unavailable to The New York Times, you can read the Red Cross Report here: |
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 10:35 |
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Today Scott Horton writes about the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the Maher Arar case. He sadly recalls those golden days of yesteryear when the very same court in Filartiga vs Pena-Irala “completely rejected its earlier narrow interpretation of international law and opened the door of the federal courts to civil actions by aliens and citizens alike for damages for human rights violations.” (http://www.ccrjustice.org/ourcases/past-cases/fil%C3%A1rtiga-v.-pe%C3%B1-irala )
Here is Scott’s article : http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/11/hbc-90006024
Here is the link to Filartiga vs Pena-Irala630 F.2d 876 : http://openjurist.org/630/f2d/876/filartiga-v-pena-irala
From Filartiga vs Pena-Irala630 F.2d 876
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Decided June 30, 1980.
. Indeed, for purposes of civil liability, the torturer has become like the pirate and slave trader before him hostis humani generis, an enemy of all mankind.
Here is the last paragraph of that decision in full
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Sunday, 01 November 2009 10:46 |
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I know this seems like a small thing, but I think it is indicative of the culture in which we live. This is how much of America conceives of activists who work for accountability on torture – we are the left wing equivalent of tea baggers.
From today’s New York Times:
“If it seems a little ironic that slender urban saplings are dressing like Paul Bunyan and the Marlboro Man, well, so what? In these increasingly polarized times, when one half of America thinks President Obama is the second coming of Adolf Hitler and the other half won’t be truly satisfied until we prosecute everyone from Dubya on down to Laura Bush for war crimes, it’s actually kind of nice to see bearded blue-state hipsters dressing like men who slaughter cattle and clear-cut forests for a living.” |
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