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CIA Crucified captive in Abu Ghraib Prison
by Sherwood Ross
The Central Intelligence Agency crucified a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a report published in The New Yorker magazine.
“A forensic examiner found that he (the prisoner) had essentially been crucified; he died from asphyxiation after having been hung by his arms, in a hood, and suffering broken ribs,” the magazine's Jane Mayer writes in the magazine's June 22nd issue. “Military pathologists classified the case a homicide.” The date of the murder was not given.
“No criminal charges have ever been brought against any C.I.A. officer involved in the torture program, despite the fact that at least three prisoners interrogated by agency personnel died as a result of mistreatment,” Mayer notes.
An earlier report, by John Hendren in The Los Angeles Times indicted other torture killings. And Human Rights First says nearly 100 detainees have died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hendren reported that one Manadel Jamadi died “of blunt-force injuries” complicated by “compromised respiration” at Abu Ghraib prison “while he was with Navy SEALs and other special operations troops.” Another victim, Abdul Jaleel, died while gagged and shackled to a cell door with his hands over his head.” Yet another prisoner, Maj. Gen. Abid Mowhosh, former commander of Iraq's air defenses, “died of asphyxiation due to smothering and chest compression” in Qaim, Iraq.
"There is no question that U.S. interrogations have resulted in deaths," says Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU. "High-ranking officials who knew about the torture and sat on their hands and those who created and endorsed these policies must be held accountable. America must stop putting its head in the sand and deal with the torture scandal." At least scores of detainees in U.S. custody have died and homicide is suspected. As far back as May, 2004, the Pentagon conceded at least 37 deaths of prisoners in its custody in Iraq and Afghanistan had prompted investigations.
Nathaniel Raymond, of Physicians for Human Rights, told The New Yorker, “We still don't know how many detainees were in the black sites, or who they were. We don't fully know the White House's role, or the C.I.A.'s role. We need a full accounting, especially as it relates to health professionals.”
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'If I didn't confess to 7/7 bombings MI5 officers would rape my wife,' claims torture victim
By Matthew Hickley
Last updated at 10:25 PM on 25th June 2009
A British man spoke publicly for the first time yesterday to accuse MI5 officers of forcing him to confess to masterminding the July 7 bombings.
Jamil Rahman claims UK security officers were behind his arrest in 2005 in Bangladesh. He says he was beaten repeatedly by local officials who also threatened to rape him and his wife.
Mr Rahman, who is suing the Home Office, said a pair of MI5 officers who attended his torture and interrogation would leave the room while he was beaten.
He claims when he told the pair he had been tortured they merely answered: 'They haven't done a very good job on you.'
Mr Rahman told the BBC: 'They were questioning me on the July 7 bombings, showing me pictures of the bombers.
'They showed me maps, terrains ... they asked me to draw things out and write names next to pictures.
'They threatened my family. They go to me, "In the UK, gas leaks happen, if your family house had a gas leak and everyone got burnt, there's no problems, we can do that easily".'
He says he eventually made a false confession of involvement in the July 7 bomb plots.
Fighting the New World Order: Information Revolution 2009 (new clips with dates)
Obama Administration: Bushism without Bush
JFK, Executive Order 11110 and the Warren Commission
Call for public inquiry into 7/7 from former head of counter-terrorism
Sean O'Neill, Crime and Security Editor
An independent public inquiry should be held into how suicide terrorists were able to carry out the July 7 bombings, Scotland Yard's former head of counter-terrorism says.
Andy Hayman, who was Assistant Commissioner for Special Operations at the time of the bombings in 2005, is the first figure from the security establishment to break ranks and call for an open inquiry.
Almost four years after Mohammad Sidique Khan and his Leeds-based cell carried out the bombings, Mr Hayman says that he is “uncomfortable” with the official position that an inquiry would divert resources from the fight against terrorism. In his book, The Terrorist Hunters , extracts from which are published in The Times today, Mr Hayman says: “Incidents of less gravity have attracted the status of a public inquiry — train crashes, a death in custody, and even other terrorist attacks. How can there not be a full, independent public inquiry into the deaths of 52 commuters on London's transport system?
“There has been no overview, no pulling together of each strand of review, no one can be sure if key issues have been missed.”
Survivors of the July 7 bombings and families of the victims are taking High Court action over the refusal to grant them an independent inquiry.
Bill to give cops online snooping powers
OTTAWA — The federal government is cracking down on high-tech terrorists and sexual predators with a controversial bill that would allow police to snoop on Internet activity.
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said cutting-edge communications devices are of great benefit to Canadians, but they have also given criminals new breeding ground. He rejected criticism the bill is too intrusive, insisting it strikes the right balance between privacy rights and public safety.
The new proposed laws will require Internet service providers to include interception capability in their networks, and will empower police to monitor online activity.
Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan said enforcement powers have not kept pace with fast-evolving technology. He said proposed changes to not alter interception powers, but updates an antiquated framework that was designed 40 years ago.
“We are simply seeking to modernize our laws to reflect the realities of a high-tech society,” he said.
Requirements to obtain court orders to intercept communications will not be changed, but service providers will be required to supply basic subscriber information to law enforcement agencies and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service on request. Other countries United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Sweden, already have similar legislation in place, Van Loan said.
Accused 9/11 mastermind: ‘I make up stories'
In potentially another blow to advocates of torture and harsh interrogation, transcripts released yesterday show that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed says he made up stories to appease his interrogators.
”I make up stories,” Mohammed is quoted as saying in his 2007 Gitmo hearing. The alleged 9/11 plotter claimed to have taken part in at least 29 terrorist plots.
Mohammed says he told his questioners he didn't know the location of Osama Bin Laden, and was tortured as a result.
“”Where is he? I don't know,” Mohammed said. ‘Then he torture me. Then I said, ‘Yes, he is in this area or this is al Qaeda which I don't know him.' I said no, they torture me.'”
“Yet at the same military tribunal hearing, Mohammed ticked off a list of 29 terror plots in which he took part,” AP reported. “The transcripts were released as part of a lawsuit in which the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking documents and details of the government's terror detainee programs.”
Taken from page 15 of the PDF :
….be under questioning so many statement which been some of them I make up stories just location UBL. Where is he? I don't know. Then he torture me. Then I said yes, he is in this area or this is al Qaida which I don't him. I said no, they torture me. Does he know you? I say don't him but how come he know you. I told him I'm senior man. Many people know me which I don't them. I ask him even if he knew George Bush. He said, yes I do. He don't know you that not means its false.
We Are Change Vancouver's DJ Ball letter of response to Glenn Beck
GLENN BECK SAYS 9/11 TRUTHERS ARE DESTROYING AMERICA , CONTINUES FOX'S SHILL CAMPAIGN
They can't handle us KNOWING the TRUTH!
Bill will put idiocy into law
Jerry Paradis, Special to North Shore News
Published: Wednesday, May 20, 2009Six people trekked to Ottawa a couple of weeks ago to testify before Parliament's Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, which is considering something called Bill C-15.
If that bill becomes law, it will establish mandatory minimum sentences for certain drug offences. I know, I know. We've been there before. But, as Dan Gardner of the Ottawa Citizen has said, if you want me to stop grinding crime and drug issues to dust you have to ask your elected representatives to stop acting stupid. That's a strong word, but it's long past time to be genteel and respectful.
On every aspect of crime and penal policy, this government is programmed for idiocy. Evidence is irrelevant. If it's a step in the right ideological direction, one bound to resonate with that segment of the population that fears for its safety at every turn, it's the policy to follow.
That the fearful have been conditioned by those same politicians to be that way, against all available evidence, makes no difference. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, testifying before the Committee, was asked what evidence he had that mandatory minimums would have any impact on drug trafficking. He said: "We believe that that's what Canadians want." Most Canadians probably want free maple syrup, a Stanley Cup champ or a couple of weeks in the Caribbean in February. I'm all for laws mandating those. So much for evidence.
9/11: We Will Never Forget
Major 9/11 Truth Breakthrough!!! KBDI Denver Airs 9/11 Press for Truth
*Checkout the full film of 'Press For Truth' on the documentaries page.
Bush Clinton Protest War Criminal Toronto Canada
Vote for Answers
Bush, Clinton 9/11 Truth in the News Toronto
Richard Gage on KMPH Fox 26 Discussing 9/11 Demolition
Law group asks for legal action against G. W. Bush
Vancouver, B.C. Canada – A lawyers' group has again demanded the Canadian government to bar former U.S. president George W. Bush from Canada, citing the well documented involvement of Bush and other members of the Bush administration in torture and other war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Mr. Bush is scheduled to speak in Toronto May 29. In a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and top ministers, copied to other MPs, Lawyers Against the War - LAW advises that G. W. Bush is inadmissible to Canada, under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act – IRPA, due to the fact that evidence of Bush' involvement in torture and other crimes meets (surpasses) the “reasonable grounds to believe” test. LAW says if Bush is allowed into Canada, Canadian law and the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Punishment of Treatment - CAT require Canada to either investigate and prosecute him for torture or extradite him to a country that is willing to do so. The IRPA provisions are part of Canada's important international duty to make sure that suspected perpetrators of torture have no safe haven wherever they go. The torture offence provisions of both the Criminal Code and the Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act - CAHWCA enable Canada to fulfill its companion duty (under CAT) to prosecute and punish torture wherever it happens. Canada is obliged to apply these criminal laws whenever a suspected perpetrator is in Canada or when a victim is a Canadian citizen. Both these conditions apply to G.W. Bush. In March 2009 the Canada's prime minister apparently made an executive decision to grant G.W. Bush immunity both from the IRPA and from Canada's torture laws. To do so was, and is, a violation of Canadian law and of Canada's most important international law obligations, says LAW spokeswoman, Gail Davidson. LAW urges Canadians to peacefully express their unshakeable support for strict adherence to Canada's anti-torture laws and their uncompromising opposition to Canadian officials supporting impunity for suspected perpetrators of torture and other international crimes, by failing or refusing to apply the law.
Contact: Gail Davidson +1 738 0338 law@portal.ca
How Those Who Kill Can Enter Canada While Those Who Save Lives Are Barred
Is Canada Becoming A Safe Haven For War Criminals?
by Joshua Blakeney
World renowned, award winning journalist John Pilger commented on George Galloway's autobiography: “Galloway's work has saved countless lives, particularly in Iraq”. This is an accurate statement about the record of the five-times elected British MP who was described by Canadian Minister for Immigration Jason Kenny as “a threat to Canada's security” and subsequently banned from entering Canada during March of this year. Juxtaposing the blood-soaked records of George W Bush and Bill Clinton - especially in relation to Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Somalia and elsewhere - with the unimpeachable record of George Galloway MP, the patent rudderless and deceptive nature of the current Canadian government and its media accomplices becomes transparent. The Canadian government evidently embraces the inane ethos: “if your going to kill, make sure you kill millions.” In other words, the tin pot tyrants like the Taliban and Saddam Hussein are to be demonized, subjected to show trials and marketed as a ‘threat', while those who massacre and torture millions like Bush, Clinton, Rice and Cheney are to be venerated, ingratiated and granted VIP treatment if they choose to come to Canada at any time during their lucrative speaking tours.
The Canadian parliament in its history has never stood in such public execration as it does contemporarily for both its tacit and overt support for some of the worst mass murderers ever to afflict humanity. War criminals emanating from Canada's behemoth southern neighbour are apparently welcome to spread their malicious propaganda, leaving with a hansom speaker's fee, all for the pleasure of the wealthy few who can afford the ticket to enter the Gestapo protected venues. In the past eight weeks there have been visits by George W Bush to Calgary (hosted by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce), Condoleezza Rice to Calgary (hosted by the so called U of C School of Public Policy) and imminently George W Bush and Bill Clinton plan to descend upon Canada again, as if it were merely the fifty-first state of the U.S.A, rather than a sovereign country with its own laws and international obligations.
If Canada is indeed still a sovereign country certainly many of us are finding the boundaries opaque at best.
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Torturing Democracy
Jesse Ventura schools FOX & Friends
Jesse Ventura on The View - Destroys Torture Arguments
Dennis Kucinich - THE TRUTH IS
Scientist attempts to smuggle 22 vials of Ebola into US
Bush's 'Smoking Gun' Witness Found Dead
IndictBushNow files Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to get to bottom of story
The cover-up of Bush-era crimes is taking a shocking but not unexpected turn. A fateful move has been made and it is certain to backfire.
A prisoner who was horribly tortured in 2002 until he agreed - at the demand of Bush torturers - to say that al-Qaeda was linked to Saddam Hussein is suddenly dead. Several weeks ago, Human Rights Watch investigators discovered the missing inmate and talked to him. He had been secretly transferred by the administration to a prison in Libya after having been held by the CIA both in secret “black hole prisons” and in Egypt.
Under conditions of extreme torture, the prisoner, Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, agreed in 2002 to supply the Bush-ordered interrogators what they sought as a political cover for Bush's marketing of the pending war of aggression against Iraq. Mr. Libi agreed to tell them whatever they wanted in exchange for an end to the torture. The now famous Torture Memos providing legal cover for the torture were written at the same time starting in the summer of 2002.
Libi's tortured and knowingly fabricated testimony was the source of information used by Bush to sell the war to the U.S. Senate, and the source for Colin Powell's bogus and lying presentation to the United Nations in 2003.
Pentagon Attack Cab Driver Lloyde England's Virtual Confession
Obama's Middle East Imperialism
by Shamus Cooke
The velvet gloves are off and the reality of Obama's Middle East plans are being revealed: a bare-fisted pummeling of Afghanistan and Pakistan — with Iraq's fate yet to be determined.
The media have been preparing this for months, with incessant talk about the alleged “troop drawdown” in Iraq , the “surge” in Afghanistan and the “immediate threat” that supposedly is represented by Pakistan.
It's now crystal clear that zero “change” will be forthcoming when it comes to U.S. foreign policy, minus a strategic shifting of troops. This fact was highlighted recently when Obama asked for an additional $83.4 billion in “emergency spending” to fight the Iraq/Afghan/Pakistan wars. It must be noted that so-called “ emergency funds ” were precisely the avenue Bush chose to fight his wars, enabling him to skirt the already-gigantic military budget .
The 2010 military budget is now set at $534 billion (!), not counting emergency spending; a 4 percent increase from the previous year. At a time when jobs, education, health, and public services are being slashed all over the country, calling such a budget “highly immoral” would be an understatement.
Also morally questionable is the extension of the Afghanistan war into Pakistan, a bitter pill to swallow for those who once sincerely believed in Obama's antiwar rhetoric. The house appropriations committee recently approved $2.3 billion in “emergency spending” for “assistance” to Pakistan, most of it for the purpose of making war: training Pakistani “counterinsurgency” forces and police and building a fortified U.S. super embassy.
VANCOUVER BC - ANNIE MACHON TOUR - May 22, 2009
VICTORIA BC - ANNIE MACHON TOUR - May 24, 2009
7:00 pm, Sunday May 24th
Alix Goolden Performance Hall
907 Pandora St., Victoria
Tickets: $10.00
MI5 WHISTLEBLOWER SPEAKS OUT: THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE SECRET STATE
Former Intelligence Officer, a Cambridge Graduate, is on a Cross Canada Tour
Contact: Annie Machon Committee Tel: 1-250-598-3006 or 250-383-2417
e-mail: mikezimmer-gmz@islandnet.com or elizwood@shaw.ca or rowmorg@hotmail.com , 1-250-748-0795 (Upper Island)
Annie is an MI5 survivor.
And she's blowing a big whistle.
Her name is Annie Machon, and she used to be an intelligence officer for MI5, the UK domestic security service, closest partner of the C.I.A., and sponsor of the CSIS.
In the 1990s Annie spent six years working at the heart of the secret state. During this time she witnessed so many problems, from gross mismanagement up to and including state-sponsored murder, that she left and in 1997 blew the whistle with her ex-partner, David Shayler, on the crimes of the spies.
Annie's bravery made worldwide headlines, and the UK government was for years under pressure to hold an enquiry into her proven disclosures. However, the government chose to protect the UK's unaccountable spy community, and used media spin to stifle legitimate debate.
As a result, she has become an author, journalist, media pundit and public speaker exposing cutting-edge issues in security and intelligence, the war on terror, press and media freedoms, secrecy legislation and governmental accountability. Above all, using her sharp insight into the world of covert homeland operations.
Her fundamental principles are the protection of human rights, openness, the sharing of information, transparency, democratic accountability, and focusing on facts, not spin. Annie makes it clear that these principles forced her to leave the multi-billion dollar covert empire and speak her mind.
Come and hear her tell her story in person, unscripted. It's the sound of a whistle, blowing.
The very credible Ms. Machon will be speaking to a capacity audience at:
7:00 pm, Sunday May 24th
Alix Goolden Performance Hall
907 Pandora St., Victoria
Tickets: $10.00
Purchase online at http://www.hightideconcerts.net/
Bookstores: Chapters, Ivy's, Tanner's (Sidney), Sorenson's, Cadboro Bay Books
Or at the door. Doors open 6:30 pm.
Tickets from High Tide Entertainment .
***Annie Machon will also be in Vancouver May 22nd
Richard Gage Lecture Highlights - Montreal 9/11 Truth - April 18th,2009 - AE911Truth.org
Obama's First 100 Days: Rebranding, Continuing Bush Regime's War, Occupation, Torture
Saturday, 02 May 2009 07:10
By Kenneth J. Theisen
The media this past week or so has created a big hoopla around Obama's first hundred days in office. While this is largely an exercise in public relations hype, the first hundred days of this new administration does tell us what to expect in the next three and three-quarter years if Obama is allowed to continue on the course he has begun. While many people believe that the Obama administration has reversed course from the eight years of the Bush regime, I contend that Obama has done much to continue – in fact, accelerate and deepen - the fascist political trajectory of the Bush administration.
Let's look at some to the things Obama has done, or not done, to determine what he may do during the rest of his reign.
Continued war and U.S. occupation in Iraq
Despite many people's expectation that Obama would end the war in Iraq, he has actually guaranteed its continuance, while at the same time disarming much of the opposition to the war. His policies, if left unchallenged, will allow tens of thousands of U.S. troops to remain in Iraq for years. They will not be lonely, as tens of thousands of U.S. contractors will also remain there. The Iraqi puppet government will also have the guidance of the largest U.S. embassy in the world in the green zone. The embassy will literally employ thousands to “assist” the Iraqis in implementing the U.S. agenda there.
Escalation of the war in Afghanistan
In his short time in office, Obama has managed to announce and start a major escalation of the war in Afghanistan. This year the U.S. will deploy over 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. They will be joined by thousands of allied troops that Obama has gotten by pressuring these allies with his “diplomacy.” This should surprise no one, since Obama promised in his campaign that he would give “more attention” to achieving victory for U.S. imperialism in that war-torn nation.
Jane Harmon and Wire Tapping
Obama and the War Criminals
Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup
Condoleezza Rice Guilty Of War Crimes
Also see: Condoleezza Rice follows Bush to Calgary (May 13th)
Major 9/11 Breakthrough in Japan
by Heinrich Buecker
Spectacular Support for Yukihisa Fujita (April 2009)
Yukihisa Fujita, a member of the Upper House of the Japanese Parliament has recently published a book titled:
"Questioning 9/11 in Japan's Parliament - Can Obama Change the USA?"
Co-authors are David Ray Griffin, Yumi Kikuchi and Akira Dojimaru.
Councilor Fujita is a current member and former director of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense. In this function he questioned 9/11 three times in parliament. Fujita claims that 9/11 as the main reason for the "War on Terror" needs to be newly investigated in order to find peaceful solutions.
On April 8 there was a formal reception on the ocassion of the publishing Mr. Fujita's book at the Tokyo Dome Hotel.
The event was organized and promoted by a large group of Mr. Fujita's supporters including the chief editor daily newspaper Japan Times, several leading representatives of the Democratic Party and several business excecutives. They hosted the event in honour of the Mr. Fujita.
Yumi Kikuchi, a well known peace and 9/11 activists first presented a video lecture that had been prepared by co-author of the book, Akira Dojimaru, who lives in Spain and was not present at the event. The presentation explained in great detail the numerous main points that completely contradict the official 9/11 account of the US administration and the mainstream media. Its was made clear that 9/11 is used to constantly justify wars.
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***FLASHBACK*** Donald Rumsfeld makes $5m killing on bird flu drug
By Geoffrey Lean and Jonathan Owen
Sunday, 12 March 2006
Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu. The US Defence Secretary has made more than $5m (£2.9m) in capital gains from selling shares in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu, the drug being bought in massive amounts by Governments to treat a possible human pandemic of the disease.
More than 60 countries have so far ordered large stocks of the antiviral medication - the only oral medicine believed to be effective against the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease - to try to protect their people. The United Nations estimates that a pandemic could kill 150 million people worldwide.
Britain is about halfway through receiving an order of 14.6 million courses of the drug, which the Government hopes will avert some of the 700,000 deaths that might be expected. Tamiflu does not cure the disease, but if taken soon after symptoms appear it can reduce its severity.
The drug was developed by a Californian biotech company, Gilead Sciences. It is now made and sold by the giant chemical company Roche, which pays it a royalty on every tablet sold, currently about a fifth of its price.
Mr Rumsfeld was on the board of Gilead from 1988 to 2001, and was its chairman from 1997. He then left to join the Bush administration, but retained a huge shareholding .
CBC - Swine Flu: Virus in Depth
McCain defends Napolitano, insists 9/11 perpetrators came from Canada
The Canadian Press
Arizona Senator John McCain is the latest high-profile politician to repeat the diehard American falsehood that the Sept. 11, 2001, attackers entered the United States through Canada.
Just days after Janet Napolitano, the U.S. homeland security secretary, sparked a diplomatic kerfuffle by suggesting the perpetrators took a Canadian route to the U.S. eight years ago, McCain defended her by saying that, in fact, the former Arizona governor was correct.
"Well, some of the 9/11 hijackers did come through Canada, as you know," McCain, last year's Republican presidential candidate, said on Fox News on Friday.
The Arizona senator's remarks prompted the Canadian embassy to immediately reissue remarks made Tuesday by Ambassador Michael Wilson, who reminded Americans once again that none of the attackers came to the U.S. via Canada.
"Unfortunately, misconceptions arise on something as fundamental as where the 9/11 terrorists came from," Wilson said.
'Dick Cheney had a death squad'
Obama administration "looking forward" instead of prosecuting over torture
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Waterboarded 183 Times in One Month
By: emptywheel Saturday April 18, 2009 11:57 am
I've put this detail in a series of posts, but it really deserves a full post. According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo , Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002.
On page 37 of the OLC memo, in a passage discussing the differences between SERE techniques and the torture used with detainees, the memo explains:
The CIA used the waterboard "at least 83 times during August 2002" in the interrogation of Zubaydah. IG Report at 90, and 183 times during March 2003 in the interrogation of KSM, see id. at 91.
Note, the information comes from the CIA IG report which, in the case of Abu Zubaydah, is based on having viewed the torture tapes as well as other materials. So this is presumably a number that was once backed up by video evidence.
The same OLC memo passage explains how the CIA might manage to waterboard these men so many times in one month each (though even with these chilling numbers, the CIA's math doesn't add up).
...where authorized, it may be used for two "sessions" per day of up to two hours. During a session, water may be applied up to six times for ten seconds or longer (but never more than 40 seconds). In a 24-hour period, a detainee may be subjected to up to twelve minutes of water appliaction. See id. at 42. Additionally, the waterboard may be used on as many as five days during a 30-day approval period.
So: two two-hour sessions a day, with six applications of the waterboard each = 12 applications in a day. Though to get up to the permitted 12 minutes of waterboarding in a day (with each use of the waterboard limited to 40 seconds), you'd need 18 applications in a day. Assuming you use the larger 18 applications in one 24-hour period, and do 18 applications on five days within a month, you've waterboarded 90 times--still just half of what they did to KSM.
The CIA wants you to believe waterboarding is effective. Yet somehow, it took them 183 applications of the waterboard in a one month period to get what they claimed was cooperation out of KSM.
That doesn't sound very effective to me.
Full Article Here
Bush memos parallel claim 9/11 mastermind's children were tortured with insects
By John Byrne
The Raw Story
Published: April 17, 2009
Bush Administration memos released by the White House on Thursday provide new insight into claims that American agents used insects to torture the young children of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
In the memos, released Thursday, the Bush Administration White House Office of Legal Counsel offered its endorsement of CIA torture methods that involved placing an insect in a cramped, confined box with detainees. Jay S. Bybee, then-director of the OLC, wrote that insects could be used to capitalize on detainees' fears.
The memo was dated Aug. 1, 2002. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's children were captured and held in Pakistan the following month, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.
While an additional memo released Thursday claims that the torture with insects technique was never utilized by the CIA, the allegations regarding the children would have transpired when the method was authorized by the Bush Administration.
At a military tribunal in 2007, the father of a Guantanamo detainee alleged that Pakistani guards had confessed that American interrogators used ants to coerce the children of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed into revealing their father's whereabouts.
The statement was made by Ali Khan, the father of detainee Majid Khan, who gave a detailed account of his son's interrogation at the hands of American guards in Pakistan. In his statement, Khan asserted that one of his sons was held at the same place as the young children of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
“The Pakistani guards told my son that the boys were kept in a separate area upstairs and were denied food and water by other guards,” the statement read. “They were also mentally tortured by having ants or other creatures put on their legs to scare them and get them to say where their father was hiding.” ( A pdf transcript is available here )
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New Information on the Death of 911 Eyewitness Barry Jennings
Official archive page: http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/Blood_09.html
Interview MP3: http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/archive/Jack-Blood-32k-041609.mp3
By Jack Blood
Yesterday, April 15th 2009 I was contacted by “Loose Change” director, and narrator Dylan Avery who said that he had recently begun investigating the death of Barry Jennings, and had found some new information relating to his death.
It seems that there is a very good possibility that Jennings' death could have been due to foul play. Though the investigations are on going, initial findings are somewhat alarming. The conclusion is still forthcoming, but I was shocked by what I heard.
It seems that Dylan had hired a private investigator to look into Jennings death which remains shrouded in mystery. His motive was simply to bring some closure to the life of Barry Jennings, and in doing so to honor the memory of this brave American. The Investigator ended up referring the case to Law enforcement before refunding his pay, and told Dylan never to contact him again. Very unusual to say the least. Dylan also paid a visit to the Jennings home. He found it vacant and for sale.
Personally, something is really beginning to stink here. Why would a highly paid PI refuse to continue his investigation? Why did he refer the matter to police? He is not talking. What is he afraid of. Was he warned to cease and desist? If so by whom?
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