Posted on 03/12/2008 4:02:15 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy
Edited on 03/12/2008 6:13:07 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
BAGHDAD _U.S. authorities in Baghdad have received five severed fingers belonging to four Americans and an Austrian who were taken hostage more than a year ago in Iraq , U.S. officials said Wednesday.
The FBI is investigating the grisly development, and the families of the five kidnapped contractors have been notified, American officials said on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the case publicly.
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Praying along with you. I sure hope we have a Pres who will fight this evil come November.
1000% correct
Oh, my G-d. Prayers.
I agree. Yes, I feel sorry for these families. In 66-67, we had men whose heads were cut off and mounted on spikes. Yet, we have jerks, who complain about water boarding? War is not the ugliest of things. The ugliest of things is man afraid to fight for his country.
Not only heads off but other body parts as well. Placed in mouth and the mouth sewn up. But I have never heard the left-wing press say anything about the actions of their brothers the Communist. Has anyone ever read or heard anyone in the government or media say anything about the torture and death by means that cannot be stated on this site. I have never heard the left say anything against their brother and sister whores.
“The ugliest of things is man afraid to fight for his country.”
I think we need another hectoring today from Condi “Saudi 401(k) Plan” Rice about all the joys and wonderfulness of the ROP, and Israel not doing enough to comply with the Road Map (to nowhere). She makes me ill.
Godspeed to these hostages and others who have fallen into the hands of these satanic barbarians.
Kill the perps.
Repeat.
And we worry about waterboarding terrorists. What’s with this country. Wait till it’s going to happen here in the US.
Meanwhile, the Democrats and John McCain are falling over themselves to make sure that any of these vermin which are captured are made as comfortable as possible.
Again, you nailed the facts. I am so damn sick and tired of the bleeding heart libs and their prostitutes-The MSM.
Now, what was that complaint about water-boarding?
And, I am sure these poor men did not receive any medical attention after their fingers were severed. I can’t imagine the condition and pain they might be enduring now.
We have the means and technology. Past due to use it. Pull all the troops to a secure distance. Blanket bomb Iraq, Iran, Syria, and any other nest of Islamofascism. Include a decent share of nukes to make a point. Claim all the oil. We are at war. Everyone knows that we are rapidly approaching the boil over point. Time for the U.S. to be on the offensive. History has proved nobody can rationalize with these fanatics. The herd needs to be trimmed very closely.
Just a thought.
Amen.....
Anyone know anything about them?
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Hey, at least they weren’t WATERBOARDED.
WASHINGTON March 9, 2008, 11:31 am ET · Democrats and human rights advocates criticized President Bush’s veto Saturday of a bill that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other coercive interrogation methods to gain information from suspected terrorists.
Bush said such tactics have helped foil terrorist plots. His critics likened some methods to torture and said they sullied America’s reputation around the world.
“This president had the chance to end the torture debate for good, yet he chose instead to leave the door open to use torture in the future,” said Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
She said Bush ignored the advice of 43 retired generals and admirals and 18 national security experts, including former secretaries of state and national security advisers, who supported the bill.
“Torture is a black mark against the United States,” she said.
The bill would have limited the CIA to 19 interrogation techniques that are used by the military and spelled out in the Army Field Manual. Bush said he vetoed the measure because it is important for the CIA to have a separate and classified interrogation program for suspected terrorists who possess critical information about possible plots against the United States.
Bush, who used his weekly radio address to announce the veto, said the program had helped stop plots against a Marine camp in Djibouti and the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, and plans to fly passenger planes into a Los Angeles tower or London’s Heathrow Airport and city buildings.
“Were it not for this program, our intelligence community believes that al-Qaida and its allies would have succeeded in launching another attack against the American homeland,” the president said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the nation’s ability to lead the world depends on its morality, not military might. “We will begin to reassert that moral authority by attempting to override the president’s veto next week,” said Pelosi, D-Calif.
Based on the margin of passage in each chamber, it may prove difficult for the Democratic-controlled Congress to turn back Bush’s veto. It takes a two-thirds majority, and the vote was 222-199 in the House and 51-45 in the Senate.
Bush said he did not veto the bill specifically over waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning. The Army banned the use of waterboarding or sensory deprivation on uncooperative prisoners in 2006. The CIA, which also prohibited the practice in 2006, has acknowledged using waterboarding on three suspected terrorists in 2003.
“My disagreement ... is not over any particular interrogation technique; for instance, it is not over waterboarding, which is not part of the current CIA program,” Bush said in his veto message to the House.
The attorney general has deemed that program legal under domestic and international law, he said.
Still, waterboarding remains in the CIA’s tool kit. The technique can be used, but it requires the consent of the attorney general and president on a case-by-case basis. Bush wants to keep that option open.
“I cannot sign into law a bill that would prevent me, and future presidents, from authorizing the CIA to conduct a separate, lawful intelligence program, and from taking all lawful actions necessary to protect Americans from attack,” Bush said in a statement.
Democrats say the CIA should be restricted to the techniques in the Army Field Manual. They include the “good cop-bad cop” routine; making prisoners think they are in another country’s custody; and separating a prisoner from others for up to 30 days.
In addition to waterboarding, the field manual prohibits hooding prisoners or putting duct tape across their eyes; stripping prisoners naked; and forcing prisoners to perform or mimic sexual acts. It also prohibits beating, burning or physically hurting prisoners in other ways; subjecting them to hypothermia or mock executions. It does not allow food, water and medical treatment to be withheld. Dogs may not be used in any aspect of interrogation.
Waterboarding involves strapping a person down and pouring water over his cloth-covered face to create the sensation of drowning. It has been traced back hundreds of years to the Spanish Inquisition and is condemned by nations around the world and human rights organizations as torture.
In a memo to CIA employees Saturday, CIA Director Michael Hayden said the Army Field Manual does not “exhaust the universe” of lawful interrogation techniques. “There are methods in the CIA’s program that have been briefed to our oversight committees, are fully consistent with the Geneva Convention and current U.S. law and are most certainly not torture,” Hayden wrote.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he had heard nothing to suggest that the CIA, through enhanced interrogation methods, had obtained information to thwart a terrorist attack. “On the other hand, I do know that coercive interrogations can lead detainees to provide false information in order to make the interrogation stop,” said Rockefeller, D-W.Va.
There also are concerns that the use of waterboarding would undermine U.S. human rights efforts overseas and could place Americans at greater risk of being tortured if they are captured abroad.
“The president’s refusal to sign this crucial legislation into law will undermine counterterrorism efforts globally and delay efforts to rebuild U.S. credibility on human rights,” said Elisa Massimino, Washington director for Human Rights First.
Bush objected to two other provisions:
—a new independent inspector general for the government’s intelligence agencies to improve coordination and information-sharing. Bush said the position was unnecessary.
—Senate confirmation of the directors of the National Security Agency and National Reconnaissance Office. Bush said that could delay the directors’ ability to take over quickly and risk injecting politics into the selection process.
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