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John Kerry said: "We attached telephone wires to human genitals and cranked
up the voltage" or some such.

When I heard the Kerry droning on about this...my first thought was
"why of course, it's a French thing".

I can't recall the name of the movie, but I think something like this was
Standard Operating Procedure for the French cops fighting Algerian terrorist suspects.

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When I heard the Kerry droning on about this...my first thought was "why of course, it's a French thing".

I can't recall the name of the movie, but I think something like this was Standard Operating Procedure for the French cops fighting Algerian terrorist suspects.

INSIDE TRACK ON WORLD NEWS by international syndicated columnist & broadcaster Eric Margolis

Aussaresses admits he and his team of `specialists' conducted one of the war's most notorious crimes: the 1955 mass slaughter of Algerian suspects in revenge for attacks on French settlers. `Action service' ran a secret torture center at the Villa les Tourelles in Algiers where Aussaresses personally supervised interrogations. Thousands of Algerians were subjected to `la gégène,' intense electric current delivered to genitals, ears, and lips, savage beatings, near-drowning in filthy water, and mock executions. Few suspects ever emerged alive.