Amnesty Report: The Naked Face of U.S. fascism
REPORT ON THE INHUMAN USE OF TORTURE ADVOCATED BY THE MANAGERS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER CRIMINALS OF ALL NATIONALITIES WHO SUPPORT THIS: ''AS OF NOW, THE U.S. HAS YET TO PROSECUTE A SINGLE OFFICIAL, MILITARY OFFICER OR PRIVATE CONTRACTOR FOR "TORTURE" OR "WAR CRIMES" RELATED TO ITS OCCUPATIONS OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, OR THE "WAR ON TERROR."
U.S. PREPARES TO FACE U.N. ON TORTURE AS AMNESTY REPORT BLASTS WAR CRIMES*
FPF-FWD.: MAY 1ST - 2006 - FILED BY RAW STORY
As the United States prepares a team of 30 to defend its record on torture before a U.N. committee, Amnesty International has made public a report blasting the United States for failing to take appropriate steps to eradicate use of torture at U.S. detention sites around the world, RAW STORY has learned.
U.S. compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment will be the topic of May 5 and 8 U.N. hearings in Geneva.
The United States last appeared before the Committee Against Torture in May, 2000. Amnesty claims that practices criticized by the Committee six years ago -- such as the use of electro-shock weapons and excessively harsh conditions in "super-maximum" security prisons -- have been used and exported by U.S. forces abroad.
The Amnesty report - Beyond Abu Ghraib: detention and torture in Iraq* - reviews several cases where U.S. detainees held in Afghanistan and Iraq have died as a result of torture. The group also lambasts U.S. use of electro-shock weapons, inhuman and degrading conditions of isolation in "super-max" security prisons and abuses against women in the prison system -- including sexual abuse by male guards, shackling while pregnant and even in labor.
AS OF NOW, THE U.S. HAS YET TO PROSECUTE A SINGLE OFFICIAL, MILITARY OFFICER OR PRIVATE CONTRACTOR FOR "TORTURE" OR "WAR CRIMES" RELATED TO ITS OCCUPATIONS OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, OR THE "WAR ON TERROR."
"The heaviest sentence imposed on anyone to date for a torture-related death while in U.S. custody is five months," notes Curt Goering, Senior Deputy Executive Director for Amnesty International USA. "[That's] the same sentence that you might receive in the U.S. for stealing a bicycle."
The five month sentence resulted from the death of a 22-year-old taxi-driver, who had been hooded and chained to a ceiling, then kicked and beaten until dead.
"The U.S. government is not only failing to take steps to eradicate torture," he adds, "it is actually creating a climate in which torture and other ill-treatment can flourish -- including by trying to narrow the definition of torture."
The report argues that these cases are not isolated incidents, but part of an overall pattern condoned by U.S. officials.
"While the government continues to try to claim that the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody was mainly due to a few 'aberrant' soldiers, there is clear evidence to the contrary," said Javier Zuniga, Amnesty International's Americas Program Director. "Most of the torture and ill-treatment stemmed directly from officially sanctioned procedures and policies -- including interrogation techniques approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld."
Amnesty's findings have already been sent to members of the UN Committee Against Torture.
At its May 1-19 session, the Committee Against Torture will consider reports presented by Georgia, Guatemala, Republic of Korea, Qatar, Peru, Togo and the United States. With the exceptions of Korea and Peru, Amnesty has also provided reports about the actions of these nations.
[enditem] - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ff4lj
Amnesty Report - May 6th 2006 - Url.: http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engmde140012006
Trying to convince: 'chuzpah' by the PNAC pack: ''Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is calling upon Jewish people across the country to give hope to those who remain in captivity because of who they are or what they believe.'' - on the disinformation site of the JP - Url.: http://www.jewishpost.com/jp0604/jpn0604b-e.htm
* HOLODOMOR = HOLOCAUST 0F MORE THAN 6 MILLION IN UKRAINE - Writer Eric Margolis: "The Soviet's genocide accounted for at least 40 million victims, not including 20 million war dead. Kaganovitch and many senior OGPU officers (later, NKVD) were Jewish." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/kycrw - Stalin's Terminator: LAZAR KAGANOVITCH - Url.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
PNAC: THE 'PROJECT FOR ANOTHER NEFARIOUS AMERICAN CENTURY':
* 'PNAC DEMOCRACY' - RADIATION - Death Made In America - Pictures made by a doctor who wonders: ''if your conscience is still anesthetized'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/pbkyh
* US BABY GENOCIDE DEFENDED: Former U.S. PNAC-Secr. of State Madeleine Albright-Korbel, 10 years ago in her comment on the at least HALF A MILLION dead children in Iraq, which now is estimated at ONE MILLION MORE BY UNICEF: "WE THINK THE PRICE IS WORTH IT" - On CBS '60 Minutes' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8
* Iraq: Pictures from the front line: What the U.S. Press Won't Show You. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qxbxn
* HOLODOMOR = HOLOCAUST 0F MORE THAN 6 MILLION IN UKRAINE - Writer Eric Margolis: "The Soviet's genocide accounted for at least 40 million victims, not including 20 million war dead. Kaganovitch and many senior OGPU officers (later, NKVD) were Jewish." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/kycrw - Stalin's Terminator: LAZAR KAGANOVITCH - Url.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
* US CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL CONFIRMING THE CREATION OF A WORLD GOVERNMENT - "He asked if there was an international conspiracy to overthrow our government: The answer is ''Yes" - Short video - Url.: http://100777.com/media/RonPaul-NewWorldOrder.wmv
* ON THE BUCKLES OF THE BELTS HITLER'S NAZI-SS WORE, it said the same as George Bush keeps repeating: 'Gott mit Uns' - 'God is on our side' - SS/CIA - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9xqcr
* CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN THE US? - 'IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE!' - But of you don't react now... - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/o6lpx
* THE 'WHY' OF GLOBAL RESISTANCE - HOW IT IS DONE BY THE PNAC'S CIA JACKALS & THE WORLD BANK's SERIAL KILLER WOLFOWITZ - 'Confessions of an economic 'hit man'. World Bank insider Perkins explains: "Jackals' are C.I.A. - sanctioned people that come in and try to foment a coup or revolution. If it doesn't work, they perform assassinations, or try to." - They steal billions for the World Bank, IMF, USAID, UNDP, AID etc. - Perkins web site - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/jvhbu - It's your life too: Must watch Video Url.: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8171.htm
* PRESENT AND PAST - UNICEF reports on another PNAC HOLOCAUST: 'The under-5 infant mortality for 2003 was 110,000 in occupied Iraq, 292,000 in occupied Afghanistan.' - Gideon Polya: 'Non-reportage of US-linked infant mass mortality' - December 23, 2004 - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/rb3rx
* The 'PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY's is HOLOCAUSTING MORE TODDLERS: 'Children Continue To Be the Main Victims Of the U.S. War Crimes.' - By Dr. César Chelala - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/oys87
* 'PROJECT FOR A NUCLEAR AMERICAN CENTURY': NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST FOR YOU TOO - Depleted Uranium for Dummies - Url.: http://www.notinkansas.us
* THE NEW SCIENTIST ABOUT ONE OF THE PNAC'S WEAPONS AGAINST US: SWEEPING STUN GUNS TO TARGET AND CONTROL YOU AND/OR CROWDS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/kbx58
* THIS IS A VERY INFORMATIVE ARTICLE - AN EYE-OPENER - After working around the globe for more than forty years, I can not find anything wrong with this eloquent description of the state of affairs: ''Just six simple words that carry the weight of the world upon them, six simple words that act as the engine for so much turmoil and unrest.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gj4x5
* 6 MILLION PEOPLE WERE KILLED? - ANOTHER HOLOCAUST - THIS IS ONE OF MANY BY THE PNAC's CIA: John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. said and wrote in 1986: ''How 6 million People Were killed in CIA secret wars against Third World countries.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gpcg
* "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992.
* How The Bush Family Made Its Fortune From The Nazis - THE DUTCH CONNECTION - by John Loftus, a former U.S. Department of Justice Nazi War Crimes prosecutor, the President of the Florida Holocaust Museum and the highly respected author of numerous books on the CIA-Nazi connection including The Belarus Secret and The Secret War Against the Jews, both of which have extensive material on the Bush-Rockefeller-Nazi connection. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/omczx -
* GLOBAL PREDATORS - ‘FRAUDS-R-US’ - The Bush Family Saga - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/elarx
* PROFESSIONAL PILOTS ON 9/11 - THE ENEMY WITHIN THE GATES - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/kjkda
* US TERROR in a CNN Poll - Question: "Do you believe there is a U.S. government cover-up surrounding 9/11?" - 'Yes' - 89% - 'NO' - 11% - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7w7c5
* The 9/11 drama was the 'trigger' used by the PNAC Group, killing Americans to further their inhuman goals: Anybody who after seeing this video - '9/11 revisited' - still believes the version from the 'PNAC pack' - the Washington cabal - is beyond all professional help - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/jn5jx
* SCHOLARS FOR 9/11 TRUTH - American and other scientists, diplomats, researchers etc.: What happened on 9/11? - What is happening to our world? - How can we improve our situation? - Url.: http://www.st911.org/
* The MAD COW MORNING NEWS is one of the absolutely best 9/11 sites on Internet - by Daniel Hopsicker - Url.: http://www.madcowprod.com/01042004.html
* PSYOPS: How to make anybody say and see anything - William M. Arkin's "The U.S. Military Online" - When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing - Special to the Washington Post - already on Feb. 1, 1999 - Url.:http://tinyurl.com/hvnrq
* FOX: Video 49" - The example how viewers are brainwashed and 'outfoxed' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b2zzl
* All the more reason to read the 'FIGHTIN' COCK FLYER' - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/
* THE ONLY SOLUTION? - Help all the troops, including the revolting generals and other officers - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
The Dutch author this far has lived and worked abroad for more than 4 decades for international media - when they still knew what honest journalism was - as an independent foreign correspondent. Of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the 'Arab World' and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !
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U.S. PREPARES TO FACE U.N. ON TORTURE AS AMNESTY REPORT BLASTS WAR CRIMES*
FPF-FWD.: MAY 1ST - 2006 - FILED BY RAW STORY
As the United States prepares a team of 30 to defend its record on torture before a U.N. committee, Amnesty International has made public a report blasting the United States for failing to take appropriate steps to eradicate use of torture at U.S. detention sites around the world, RAW STORY has learned.
U.S. compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment will be the topic of May 5 and 8 U.N. hearings in Geneva.
The United States last appeared before the Committee Against Torture in May, 2000. Amnesty claims that practices criticized by the Committee six years ago -- such as the use of electro-shock weapons and excessively harsh conditions in "super-maximum" security prisons -- have been used and exported by U.S. forces abroad.
The Amnesty report - Beyond Abu Ghraib: detention and torture in Iraq* - reviews several cases where U.S. detainees held in Afghanistan and Iraq have died as a result of torture. The group also lambasts U.S. use of electro-shock weapons, inhuman and degrading conditions of isolation in "super-max" security prisons and abuses against women in the prison system -- including sexual abuse by male guards, shackling while pregnant and even in labor.
AS OF NOW, THE U.S. HAS YET TO PROSECUTE A SINGLE OFFICIAL, MILITARY OFFICER OR PRIVATE CONTRACTOR FOR "TORTURE" OR "WAR CRIMES" RELATED TO ITS OCCUPATIONS OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, OR THE "WAR ON TERROR."
"The heaviest sentence imposed on anyone to date for a torture-related death while in U.S. custody is five months," notes Curt Goering, Senior Deputy Executive Director for Amnesty International USA. "[That's] the same sentence that you might receive in the U.S. for stealing a bicycle."
The five month sentence resulted from the death of a 22-year-old taxi-driver, who had been hooded and chained to a ceiling, then kicked and beaten until dead.
"The U.S. government is not only failing to take steps to eradicate torture," he adds, "it is actually creating a climate in which torture and other ill-treatment can flourish -- including by trying to narrow the definition of torture."
The report argues that these cases are not isolated incidents, but part of an overall pattern condoned by U.S. officials.
"While the government continues to try to claim that the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody was mainly due to a few 'aberrant' soldiers, there is clear evidence to the contrary," said Javier Zuniga, Amnesty International's Americas Program Director. "Most of the torture and ill-treatment stemmed directly from officially sanctioned procedures and policies -- including interrogation techniques approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld."
Amnesty's findings have already been sent to members of the UN Committee Against Torture.
At its May 1-19 session, the Committee Against Torture will consider reports presented by Georgia, Guatemala, Republic of Korea, Qatar, Peru, Togo and the United States. With the exceptions of Korea and Peru, Amnesty has also provided reports about the actions of these nations.
[enditem] - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ff4lj
Amnesty Report - May 6th 2006 - Url.: http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engmde140012006
Trying to convince: 'chuzpah' by the PNAC pack: ''Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is calling upon Jewish people across the country to give hope to those who remain in captivity because of who they are or what they believe.'' - on the disinformation site of the JP - Url.: http://www.jewishpost.com/jp0604/jpn0604b-e.htm
* HOLODOMOR = HOLOCAUST 0F MORE THAN 6 MILLION IN UKRAINE - Writer Eric Margolis: "The Soviet's genocide accounted for at least 40 million victims, not including 20 million war dead. Kaganovitch and many senior OGPU officers (later, NKVD) were Jewish." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/kycrw - Stalin's Terminator: LAZAR KAGANOVITCH - Url.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
PNAC: THE 'PROJECT FOR ANOTHER NEFARIOUS AMERICAN CENTURY':
* 'PNAC DEMOCRACY' - RADIATION - Death Made In America - Pictures made by a doctor who wonders: ''if your conscience is still anesthetized'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/pbkyh
* US BABY GENOCIDE DEFENDED: Former U.S. PNAC-Secr. of State Madeleine Albright-Korbel, 10 years ago in her comment on the at least HALF A MILLION dead children in Iraq, which now is estimated at ONE MILLION MORE BY UNICEF: "WE THINK THE PRICE IS WORTH IT" - On CBS '60 Minutes' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8
* Iraq: Pictures from the front line: What the U.S. Press Won't Show You. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qxbxn
* HOLODOMOR = HOLOCAUST 0F MORE THAN 6 MILLION IN UKRAINE - Writer Eric Margolis: "The Soviet's genocide accounted for at least 40 million victims, not including 20 million war dead. Kaganovitch and many senior OGPU officers (later, NKVD) were Jewish." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/kycrw - Stalin's Terminator: LAZAR KAGANOVITCH - Url.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
* US CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL CONFIRMING THE CREATION OF A WORLD GOVERNMENT - "He asked if there was an international conspiracy to overthrow our government: The answer is ''Yes" - Short video - Url.: http://100777.com/media/RonPaul-NewWorldOrder.wmv
* ON THE BUCKLES OF THE BELTS HITLER'S NAZI-SS WORE, it said the same as George Bush keeps repeating: 'Gott mit Uns' - 'God is on our side' - SS/CIA - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9xqcr
* CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN THE US? - 'IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE!' - But of you don't react now... - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/o6lpx
* THE 'WHY' OF GLOBAL RESISTANCE - HOW IT IS DONE BY THE PNAC'S CIA JACKALS & THE WORLD BANK's SERIAL KILLER WOLFOWITZ - 'Confessions of an economic 'hit man'. World Bank insider Perkins explains: "Jackals' are C.I.A. - sanctioned people that come in and try to foment a coup or revolution. If it doesn't work, they perform assassinations, or try to." - They steal billions for the World Bank, IMF, USAID, UNDP, AID etc. - Perkins web site - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/jvhbu - It's your life too: Must watch Video Url.: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8171.htm
* PRESENT AND PAST - UNICEF reports on another PNAC HOLOCAUST: 'The under-5 infant mortality for 2003 was 110,000 in occupied Iraq, 292,000 in occupied Afghanistan.' - Gideon Polya: 'Non-reportage of US-linked infant mass mortality' - December 23, 2004 - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/rb3rx
* The 'PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY's is HOLOCAUSTING MORE TODDLERS: 'Children Continue To Be the Main Victims Of the U.S. War Crimes.' - By Dr. César Chelala - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/oys87
* 'PROJECT FOR A NUCLEAR AMERICAN CENTURY': NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST FOR YOU TOO - Depleted Uranium for Dummies - Url.: http://www.notinkansas.us
* THE NEW SCIENTIST ABOUT ONE OF THE PNAC'S WEAPONS AGAINST US: SWEEPING STUN GUNS TO TARGET AND CONTROL YOU AND/OR CROWDS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/kbx58
* THIS IS A VERY INFORMATIVE ARTICLE - AN EYE-OPENER - After working around the globe for more than forty years, I can not find anything wrong with this eloquent description of the state of affairs: ''Just six simple words that carry the weight of the world upon them, six simple words that act as the engine for so much turmoil and unrest.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gj4x5
* 6 MILLION PEOPLE WERE KILLED? - ANOTHER HOLOCAUST - THIS IS ONE OF MANY BY THE PNAC's CIA: John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. said and wrote in 1986: ''How 6 million People Were killed in CIA secret wars against Third World countries.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gpcg
* "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992.
* How The Bush Family Made Its Fortune From The Nazis - THE DUTCH CONNECTION - by John Loftus, a former U.S. Department of Justice Nazi War Crimes prosecutor, the President of the Florida Holocaust Museum and the highly respected author of numerous books on the CIA-Nazi connection including The Belarus Secret and The Secret War Against the Jews, both of which have extensive material on the Bush-Rockefeller-Nazi connection. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/omczx -
* GLOBAL PREDATORS - ‘FRAUDS-R-US’ - The Bush Family Saga - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/elarx
* PROFESSIONAL PILOTS ON 9/11 - THE ENEMY WITHIN THE GATES - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/kjkda
* US TERROR in a CNN Poll - Question: "Do you believe there is a U.S. government cover-up surrounding 9/11?" - 'Yes' - 89% - 'NO' - 11% - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7w7c5
* The 9/11 drama was the 'trigger' used by the PNAC Group, killing Americans to further their inhuman goals: Anybody who after seeing this video - '9/11 revisited' - still believes the version from the 'PNAC pack' - the Washington cabal - is beyond all professional help - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/jn5jx
* SCHOLARS FOR 9/11 TRUTH - American and other scientists, diplomats, researchers etc.: What happened on 9/11? - What is happening to our world? - How can we improve our situation? - Url.: http://www.st911.org/
* The MAD COW MORNING NEWS is one of the absolutely best 9/11 sites on Internet - by Daniel Hopsicker - Url.: http://www.madcowprod.com/01042004.html
* PSYOPS: How to make anybody say and see anything - William M. Arkin's "The U.S. Military Online" - When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing - Special to the Washington Post - already on Feb. 1, 1999 - Url.:http://tinyurl.com/hvnrq
* FOX: Video 49" - The example how viewers are brainwashed and 'outfoxed' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b2zzl
* All the more reason to read the 'FIGHTIN' COCK FLYER' - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/
* THE ONLY SOLUTION? - Help all the troops, including the revolting generals and other officers - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
The Dutch author this far has lived and worked abroad for more than 4 decades for international media - when they still knew what honest journalism was - as an independent foreign correspondent. Of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the 'Arab World' and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !
* IT'S VERY UNLIKELY, but if you indeed would prefer to unsubscribe from the FPF-list: just send an email in return with the word 'unsubscribe'.
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