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War Crimes, Pure and Simple

Posted By mike On April 18, 2009 @ 10:21 am In News, War Criminals | 1 Comment

Torturing people is a war crime. Ordering the torture of a person is a war crime. The US must appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the torture and war crimes.

This is not about politics or retribution. This is about whether the US is a nation of laws.

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clipped from [2] www.nytimes.com

Divisions Arose on Rough Tactics for Qaeda Figure

WASHINGTON — The first use of [3] waterboarding and other rough treatment against a prisoner from [4] Al Qaeda was ordered by senior [5] Central Intelligence Agency officials despite the belief of interrogators that the prisoner had already told them all he knew, according to former intelligence officials and a footnote in a newly released legal memorandum.

The escalation to especially brutal [6] interrogation tactics against the prisoner, [7] Abu Zubaydah, including confining him in boxes and slamming him against the wall, was ordered by officials at C.I.A. headquarters based on a highly inflated assessment of his importance, interviews and a review of newly released documents show.

A footnote to another of the memos described a rift between line officers questioning Abu Zubaydah at a secret C.I.A. prison in Thailand and their bosses at headquarters, and asserted that the brutal treatment may have been “unnecessary.”

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[3] waterboarding: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/t/torture/waterboar
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[4] Al Qaeda: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/al_qaeda/ind
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[5] Central Intelligence Agency: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/central_inte
lligence_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org
[6] interrogation: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/central_inte
lligence_agency/cia_interrogations/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier
[7] Abu Zubaydah: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/z/abu_zubaydah/index.
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