>Jonathan S. Landay at McClatchy >[http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/66622.html] has discovered the real >reason that Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Muhammad were tortured dozens of >times in the run-up to the Iraq War. It was because Dick Cheney and Donald >Rumsfeld were trying to get them to say that Saddam Hussein had operational >links with al-Qaeda, so as to have a firm justification for the war.
>The US military has now combed through 6 million captured Iraqi government >documents and has entirely failed to find any evidence of operational links >between the secular Arab nationalist Baath Party and the radical >fundamentalist al-Qaeda cult. >The information supplied to Landay by knowledgeable insiders is perhaps the >clearest evidence yet that high officials in the Bush administration >personally ordered repeated torture to be employed, and that they did so for >partisan political gain rather than for national security< -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
