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U.N. Says Guantanamo Facilitates Torture

A U.N. inquiry into U.S. practices at Guantanamo finds, unsurprisingly, that the prison facilitates torture and violates international law, and investigators criticized the Bush admin for failing to take steps to close it.

"We note with the greatest concern that the government has not taken any steps to close Guantanamo," the rights experts said in a joint statement read by Algerian Leila Zerrougui, a specialist on arbitrary detention. "Indeed, a new block has been built and is set to open this month."

The U.S. government is blowing the report off, saying it's based reports in the media and allegations from detainees' lawyers. Which may have something to do with the fact that the investigators, who've been trying to get access to Guantanamo since 2002, were told they could visit the prison but not interview detainees. They went ahead with the inquiry and say they came by "reliable accounts" of torture.

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It's not torture as long as it's humane. It's humane as long as the prisoner lives through it. Otherwise the prisoner died of natural causes.

One of the more effecive tortures used against American prisoners in the past, two world wars, Korea and Viet Nam was the threat of parading naked women in plain view of them. Another highly effective one that always got them to talk was to threaten to slip a prok chop in their meals disguised as a steak.

Of course I'm joking. When it hurts too much to cry then one may as well laugh.

Posted by: BGone on 09/22/06 at 8:56 PM

It is always a shame when someone like Chavez does the dirty work that responsible Americans should be doing.

Posted by: Diane on 09/23/06 at 1:43 PM