This is the new gulag
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1210492,00.html
Bush has created a global network of extra-legal and secret US prisons
with thousands of inmates
Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday May 6, 2004
The Guardian
It was "unacceptable" and "un-American", but was it torture? "My
impression is that what has been charged thus far is abuse, which I
believe technically is different from torture," said Donald Rumsfeld,
the secretary of defence on Tuesday. "I don't know if it is correct to
say what you just said, that torture has taken place, or that there's
been a conviction for torture. And therefore I'm not going to address
the torture word."
Sidney Blumenthal
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