Posted on 09/29/2006 12:52:57 PM PDT by SmithL
MADRID, Spain -- The top U.N. official on torture said Friday that a bill before the U.S. Congress could deprive terrorism suspects of a fair trial and was especially troubling after the mistreatment of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
The legislation, expected to clear a final congressional hurdle Friday and go to the White House for the president's signature, was condemned by many politicians, human rights groups and newspapers around the world as a violation of international law and an invitation to torture. At least two U.S. allies — Poland and Britain — declined to comment directly on the proposal.
Manfred Nowak, the U.N. anti-torture investigator, said the bill was particularly troubling following known abuses in U.S. detention facilities.
"I'm very disappointed," he told The Associated Press in Geneva. "It doesn't send the signal that we would have expected after Abu Ghraib."
In Poland, Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrzej Sados would not speak directly about the legislation, but said "certain extraordinary tools in fighting terrorism are acceptable."
The British Foreign Office also would not comment specifically on the measure, but said it welcomed the Bush administration's decision to grant the International Red Cross access to 14 important detainees, such as former al-Qaida No. 3 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. It reiterated Britain's view that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be closed.
Human rights groups were among the sharpest critics of the legislation.
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If you're drawing flack, you're over the target.
Should that be the Red Crescent instead of the Red Cross?
hurry, call in the whaaaaambulance.
Head cut off. The world has no comment.
OH pleeeeeease don't throw us out of the UN over it.
Subsequent torture sessions left the third-year law student screaming and begging as his captors suspended him by his contorted arms, beat him with sticks and electrical cables and subjected him to electric shocks. "Confess," an investigator ordered at one point, then ticked off recent car bombings in Baghdad, the 20-year-old said. "He asked me to choose one of them to confess that I perpetrated. It was like in a restaurant and he was asking me what I would like to eat." Part of his stay was spent with about 80 men, young and old, most in shirts filthy with dried blood from torture, he said. Guards gave the Sunnis only three pieces of bread a day and sips of water from a bottle cap, he said. "We wished to be transferred to Bucca or Abu Ghraib," he said. "At least the Americans won't treat us like this."
HEY! Manny! F-off!
At some point someone high up has to acknowledge that this was the whole purpose of the round-the-clock Abu Ghraib coverage-- to neuter us. The MSM are our enemies every bit as much as the islamofacists... and much more dangerous...
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly.
"But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
"He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Uck-fay Ou-yay Anny-May........
Ah yes, Spain, that paragon of appeasement.
They behead or shoot each and every one of their Western Christian and Jewish prisoners, sometimes after dragging them behind a car or hanging them from a bridge. They make tapes and DVD's of their torture killings and show them on the internet with pride.
And Democrats that say the US engages in torture?
And they claim that they are tough on terror?
Yea, I'll give a damn what the UN thinks about US law, when it pays its own damned rent! STFU you stupid pig.
If you haven't seen this yet, Deroy M's piece from NRO, read this and pass it around to those "non-believers" - those that think we don't save lives or keep our families safer from terrorists by doing a little torture....I mean "interrogation."
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTQ1YWE1OTVkNTEyMGIwOGIwMmViYWEzYTFhYTIxZGU=
Manfred is just another corrupt, braindead moron from the House of Clowns. Get the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of U.S. Rather than join Hugo's Chumpsky Book of the Month Club, the DemocRATS should have taken Hugo's other advice. Get the House of Clowns out of my country.
Give our POWs Club Gitmo treatment any day, just don't cut off their heads!!
Idiots!!
Nice shot.
These Eurotards constantly harp on our alleged "arrogance" and "inteference" and yet they feel competent to involve themselves in our legislative processes.
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