CIA Had People Raped with Broken Bottles, Boiled Alive
November 5th, 2009Via: Raw Story:
The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.
Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK’s ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only relied on confessions gleaned through extreme torture, it sent terror war suspects to Uzbekistan as part of its extraordinary rendition program.
“I’m talking of people being raped with broken bottles,” he said at a lecture late last month that was re-broadcast by the Real News Network. “I’m talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession. I’m talking of people being boiled alive. And the intelligence from these torture sessions was being received by the CIA, and was being passed on.”
As “W” endlessly droned, we must maintain the “Rule of Law.” So when will justice happen? When?
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nazi swine… like from some old lurid pulp cover image as sadistic as it could be. but this ain’t an old pulp, and the nazis are US. beyond sputtering stuttering apoplexy, or outrage overload -or god forbid outrage fatigue, this is too monstrous. what was that line at the McCarthy hearings of 50+ years ago? ‘At long last, sir, have you no decency?’
would bill moyers rant and rave about this? keith olbermann? dave?? where’s howard beale when you need him… how much volatility can be sprung down and expected to remain securely contained?
if power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, there’s more power afoot than even i ever could suppose. this is simply psychopathy on a scale beyond the third reich -beyond any scale commonly known actually.
i can’t stomach another minute of any american president’s smiling face -any more than i can another minute of corporately sanctioned news.
-this post would do well silkscreened on a t-shirt. no, wait, printed on the trunk of my car.
All I can suggest is a read of a Murder in Samarkand – A British Ambassador’s Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror by Craig Murray.
I did read this too
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/102409b.html
..on Oct. 22 at a small conference in Washington, Murray addressed the personal pain and his sense of betrayal over his treatment at the hands of former colleagues…
“…reply from the British Foreign Office. It said, this is a direct quote, “Dear Ambassador, we are concerned that you are perhaps over-focused on human rights to the detriment of commercial interests.”…”
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“She reported back to me that the CIA head of station said, “Yes, it probably is coming from torture, but we don’t see that as a problem in the context of the war on terror.””