"Canada's foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, today
said [it] would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of
countries where prisoners risk being tortured," Reuters reports:
Both nations expressed unhappiness after it emerged that
they had been listed in a document that formed part of a
training course manual on torture awareness given to Canadian
diplomats...
Under ''definition of torture'' the document lists US
interrogation techniques such as forced nudity, isolation,
sleep deprivation and blindfolding prisoners.
As an aside, note that Reuters, which is careful not to use the word terrorism
outside scare quotes, has no objection to using torture as if it were a
regular, unloaded word.
But also, _blindfolding_ is torture? We can see where one can at least make an
argument that, say, waterboarding is, but if blindfolding is torture, what
isn't?
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