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----- Original Message ----- From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Recipient List Supressed Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 6:40 PM Subject: [R-G] American Torture techniques > > Telegraph (with additional material by AFP). 20 January 2002. > Cuba camp is 'unacceptable.' > > Al Qa'eda prisoners held in Cuba are being subjected to "sensory > deprivation" by their American captors, shocking some observers and > adding to international concern at their treatment. > > Pictures released of the men show them blindfolded, tightly shackled and > forced to wear face masks, ear covers and gloves, denying them use of > key senses. > > Amnesty International said the pictures were "shocking" and showed the > men were being "softened up" for interrogation. > > Pictures reportedly taken by a US Navy officer and released to the media > show a group of kneeling, manacled prisoners. They are wearing dark > goggles to blot out the light, ear muffs to keep out sound, bright > orange jump suits and mittens. > > The right-wing Mail on Sunday, which could normally be expected to > support the United States, ran the photographs under the headline > "Tortured." > > "They can hear nothing, smell nothing, feel nothing," the middle-market > tabloid said, describing the prisoners as being "shackled like wild > animals". > > "Manacled hand and foot, they kneel in submission. Is this how (US > president George W.) Bush and (British Prime Minister Tony) Blair defend > our civilisation?" > > The pictures were so shocking they were "certain to intensify the > international outrage at the conditions in which they are being kept," > the Mail on Sunday said. > > > ------------------------------------------- > Macdonald Stainsby > Rad-Green List: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/rad-green > Leninist-International list: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international > ---- > In the contradiction lies the hope. > --Bertholt Brecht > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rad-Green mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/rad-green > ------------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscription: mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with command in body of mail: subscribe/unsubscribe
