salisburyboy Suspended 9434 Posts user info edit post |
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=2308012005
Quote : | "CIA 'torture trips' using city airport
GARETH EDWARDS Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005 THE CIA is using Edinburgh Airport as a refuelling stop for "torture" flights carrying terror suspects.
The secret flights are suspected of carrying Islamic militants from the US to Eastern European countries where torture can be used legally.
Police have now been urged to investigate whether any crimes have been committed in Edinburgh after it emerged 14 of the "rendition" flights stopped in the Capital over the last four years.
Lothians Green MSP Mark Ballard said today: "I am sure that many people in Edinburgh will be revolted that such abuses of human rights could be taking place right in their own backyard."
It had long been known that both Prestwick and Glasgow had been used as a pit-stop for the flights, but now Edinburgh, as well as RAF Leuchars, Inverness and Wick have been linked to the scandal.
Mr Ballard has written to Lothian and Borders Police outlining his concerns that crimes may have been committed in Scottish airspace or on the ground in Edinburgh, and asking the Chief Constable to investigate.
Under UN conventions and the European Convention on Human Rights, torture, including acts which aid or abet torture, is illegal.
Holyrood was told yesterday that the American government did not deny flying prisoners to Eastern Europe where they could employ what were described as aggressive interrogation techniques which are not allowed in the US." |
CIA Uses German Bases to Transport Terrorists http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1792376,00.html
See. The Bush Adminstration wasn't lying. Even though we do torture people, we do it in foreign countries where torture is supposedly "legal." So, when we torture people in these foreign countries, it's not technically "torture." The torture is just an "enhanced interrogation technique."11/26/2005 6:19:09 PM |
CharlieEFH All American 21806 Posts user info edit post |
didn't you already make this thread? 11/26/2005 6:22:36 PM |
boonedocks All American 5550 Posts user info edit post |
Old
and true.
Thus making it a bad salisburyboy post. 11/26/2005 6:34:45 PM |
salisburyboy Suspended 9434 Posts user info edit post |
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2005/091205stilltorturing.htm
Quote : | "John McCain: U.S. Still Torturing Detainees
Newsmax | December 9 2005
Sen. John McCain claimed Wednesday that the U.S. is still torturing terrorist detainees, even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits with European leaders to assure them that the practice is banned under U.S. law.
"We've got to stop this torture," McCain told radio host Don Imus.
"If you torture somebody, they're going to tell you what they think you want to know in order to make the pain stop," he complained.
The Republican maverick said the U.S. can't win the propaganda war "if people believe throughout the world that you are practicing cruel, inhuman, degrading mistreatment or torture on the people that you capture."
"Right now," McCain complained, "we have prisons, apparently, set up in different places in the world where we're keeping people for years."
His comments come as Dr. Rice meets with European leaders to assure them that claims about ongoing torture are baseless." |
12/9/2005 9:48:10 AM |
JonHGuth Suspended 39171 Posts user info edit post |
theres already a thread on this and it has orignal thought 12/9/2005 12:12:41 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
Why don't you just email Alex Jones and ask him to post his articles here? It would save you a lot of time. 12/9/2005 1:21:54 PM |
aaronburro Sup, B 53065 Posts user info edit post |
hey, as long as it is "suspects" that they are torturing, then I am fine... 12/9/2005 9:34:14 PM |
Protostar All American 3495 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "hey, as long as it is "suspects" that they are torturing, then I am fine..." |
Yeah, until you become one of the suspects. Considering the direction this country is going in, it won't be long before the government starts imprisoning it's own citizens for speak out against the agenda.
[Edited on December 9, 2005 at 9:44 PM. Reason : .]12/9/2005 9:43:44 PM |
aaronburro Sup, B 53065 Posts user info edit post |
sarcasm clearly eludes you 12/9/2005 9:44:45 PM |
Protostar All American 3495 Posts user info edit post |
Yeah it does. Sorry. I'm not good at detecting sarcasm. 12/9/2005 9:50:17 PM |