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20 Dec 2004 11:29:48 PM |
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These Are American War Crimes, Pure And Simple |
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/
bal-abuse1220,0,1342945.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines
http://tinyurl.com/67b45
FBI agents complained of prisoner abuse
ACLU releases e-mail, memos detailing harsh treatment in Cuba, Iraq
By Gail Gibson
Sun National Staff
Originally published December 20, 2004, 9:50 PM EST
FBI agents working in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, tried repeatedly over
the past two years to distance themselves from aggressive military
interrogation tactics that they feared could damage future terrorism
prosecutions, newly released documents show.
In e-mail and memos, FBI agents reported instances of harsh treatment that
included beatings and lighted cigarettes dropped into prisoners' ears. One
agent saw shackled detainees who had urinated and defecated on themselves
and a prisoner who pulled out much of his own hair after being held in a
cell where the temperature climbed above 100 degrees.
In another instance, an FBI agent complained to supervisors after learning
that military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had claimed to be FBI agents
while using "torture techniques" against a detainee.
"These tactics have produced no intelligence of a threat neutralization
nature to date and have destroyed any chance of prosecuting this detainee,"
the agent told three top bureau officials in a Dec. 5, 2003, e-mail. "If
this detainee ever is released or his story made public in any way, DOD
interrogators will not be held accountable because these torture techniques
were done [by] the 'FBI' interrogators. The FBI will [be] left holding the
bag before the public."
The e-mail was among hundreds of documents obtained by the American Civil
Liberties Union, which sued the government under the Freedom of Information
Act to gain access to records on detainee treatment. Many FBI agents have
law degrees and are attuned to legal implications of harsh questioning.
The ACLU released about 40 pages of FBI records Monday, including a June
2003 report marked "urgent" and addressed to the FBI director. The report
recounted the statement of one source who told agents in the Sacramento
field office about observing "numerous physical abuse incidents of Iraqi
civilian detainees ... [including] strangulation, beating, placement of lit
cigarettes into the detainees ear openings, and unauthorized
interrogations."
The heavily redacted report censored the name of the source and many of the
details.
A May 2002 memo from Guantanamo Bay said a detainee at Camp X-Ray
complained that guards at the detention facility had "entered his cell,
unprovoked and started spitting and cursing at him." According to the FBI
report, a soldier "jumped on [the detainee's] back and started beating him
in the face then choked him until he passed out."
The detainee told FBI agents that the soldier said he was beating him
because he was Muslim and the soldier was a Christian, according to the
report.
In an e-mail on Aug. 2, 2004, an FBI agent recounted seeing detainees at
Guantanamo Bay chained "hand and foot in a fetal position on the floor,
with no chair, food, or water. Most times they had urinated or defecated on
themselves, and had been left there for 18, 24 hours or more."
Its author, whose name was redacted, said he also saw a detainee held in an
unventilated cell, with no air conditioning, "almost unconscious on the
floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally
pulling his own hair out throughout the night."
One FBI agent said in an e-mail dated July 30, 2004, that he had witnessed
a detainee at Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta "sitting on the floor of an
interview room with an Israeli flag draped around him, loud music being
played and a strobe light flashing."
In another e-mail, from June 25, 2004, an agent noted that a detainee who
arrived at the temporary holding facility "appeared to have marks (burns)
on him that seemed suspicious. When questioned about the marks, the
detainee stated that he had been tortured by his captures. [sic]"
ACLU lawyers drew attention Monday to an e-mail from an FBI supervisor in
Iraq to bureau bosses in Washington that suggested for the first time that
President Bush, through an executive order, had authorized military
interrogators to use dogs, sleep deprivation, hoods and so-called "stress
positions, such as half squats," during detainee interviews.
But a White House spokesman and another government official, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said Monday that the e-mail's author was mistakenly
referring to Defense Department orders authorizing various interrogation
methods.
"What the FBI agent wrote in the e-mail is wrong. There is no executive
order regarding inter rogation methods," said White House spokeswoman Erin
Healy.
Confusion surrounding interrogation policies at U.S.-run prisons has been a
persistent theme in the detainee abuse scandal. In December 2002, Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld approved using "mild" physical stress and
removal of clothing, but military officials have said that list was
rescinded about a month later after concerns were raised by interrogators
at Guantanamo.
In a Dec. 9, 2002, e-mail released Monday by the ACLU, an FBI agent
forwarded documents to a supervisor in Wash ington who was "reviewing legal
aspects of interviews here in GTMO."
"One of these is a review of interrogation methods by a DOD lawyer," the
e-mail said. "Basically, it appears that the lawyer worked hard to crwite
[sic] a legal justification for the type of interviews they (the Army) want
to conduct here."
The unidentified agent who referred repeatedly to an "Executive Order"
permitting tough interrogation methods in a May 22, 2004, e-mail sought
guidance from supervisors on what should constitute reportable abuse under
FBI guidelines. Earlier that month, reports surfaced of abuses at Abu
Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
"I wish to make clear our personnel have been present at various facilities
when interrogation techniques made lawful by the Executive Order, but
outside standard FBI practice, were utilized," the agent wrote. Agents were
obligated under FBI guidelines to report abuse or mistreatment of a
detainee, but the agent noted: "This instruction begs the question of what
constitutes 'abuse.'"
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Dharmananda
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| User: "Raktizer Omheit" |
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| Title: Re: These Are American War Crimes, Pure And Simple |
21 Dec 2004 02:12:40 AM |
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"Dharmananda" <Nil@neph.net> wrote in message
news:8491833.KdPf37SN6B@news.verizon.net...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/
bal-abuse1220,0,1342945.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines
http://tinyurl.com/67b45
FBI agents complained of prisoner abuse
ACLU releases e-mail, memos detailing harsh treatment in Cuba, Iraq
By Gail Gibson
Sun National Staff
Originally published December 20, 2004, 9:50 PM EST
FBI agents working in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, tried repeatedly over
the past two years to distance themselves from aggressive military
interrogation tactics that they feared could damage future terrorism
prosecutions, newly released documents show.
In e-mail and memos, FBI agents reported instances of harsh treatment that
included beatings and lighted cigarettes dropped into prisoners' ears. One
agent saw shackled detainees who had urinated and defecated on themselves
and a prisoner who pulled out much of his own hair after being held in a
cell where the temperature climbed above 100 degrees.
The Pentagon has admitted that the U.S. intelligence agencies called the
N.S.A, C.I.A., and Cointelpro has the technology to pick up the private
thoughts given by individuals in the vibrations produced by the brains
electrical impulses, and that these thoughts can be broadcast via satellites
and any other form of technology which uses electromagnetic transfer, i.e.
television, radio, the internet, and the telephone. The Pentagon calls this
mind reading technology SYNTHETHIC TELEPATHY, although there is nothing
paranormal about it. If you don't believe me, then see this internet link:
http://www.nwbotanicals.org/oak/newphysics/synthtele/synthtele.html
Or, look up under the Google Search Tool Box this heading:
OAK.: New Physics-Sythetic Telepathy and the Early Mind Wars, or Synthetic
Telepathy and the Early Mind Wars, by Richard Allan Miller.
I began my search under the Google Search Box with the following heading :
Electrical Impulses of the Brain and Telepathy Radar. Other web sites
devoted to synthetic telepathy and subliminal, subconscious brainwashing,
can be found at these following web sites:
Covert Operations of the U.S. National Security Agency at
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/pro-freedom.co.uk/cov_us.html and GWEN:
Ground Wave Emergency Network-Powerful Antennae Controlling Humanity, or
CONTROL OF HUMANITY:CHEMTRALS, G.W.E.N., H.A.A.R.P in
http://www.world-action.co.uk/gwen.html
Also, there is an interesting article called "Brain wave technology could
change lives: Imagine controlling a computer using only your thoughts." This
technology already exists in the civilian economy as a means of playing
video games, for example. See this link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6661974/
The article was written by Robert Bazell, correspondent for NBC News. As bad
as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were, the antichrist will be far worse.
All of the above brings to mind these references from the Bible:
Ephesians 2 : 1 - 2:
1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
2 In which you once walked according to the course of this world, according
to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons
of disobedience,
and Ephesians 6 : 12:
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against
spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Could the Statue of Liberty be the ***** of Babylon mentioned in Revelation
chs. 17 - 18, and could New York City be the new Babylon mentioned in
Revelation ch.18? The Statue of Liberty has seven spikes on her crown, and
the star - shaped Fort Wood, on which the pedestal of the statue of Liberty
is built upon, has eleven points. The ***** of Babylon sits on a scarlet
beast which has seven heads and ten horns [ Revelation 17 : 3 ]. According
to Revelation 17 : 12 - 13 the ten horns are ten kings who have no kingdom
as yet, but when they receive authority for one hour as kings with the
beast, they will give their power and authority to the beast. Revelation 17
: 13 says that the ten kings are of one mind. The ten kings and the beast
might be represented by the eleven pointed, star - shaped Fort Wood. The
beast is the antichrist according to Revelation ch.13. The U.S.A. was once a
part of the thirteen British Atlantic seaboard colonies, excluding those
former British colonies in what is now a part of Canada. The ***** of
Babylon has a golden cup according to Revelation 17 : 4. The Statue of
Liberty's torch is covered with gold. Revelation 17 : 5 says this:
"5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE
MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." The bronze plaque
with the poem entitled "The New Colossus," and placed in the pedestal of the
Statue of Liberty in 1903, has this phrase: "and her name Mother of Exiles."
The lines in the poem, which says "Give me your tired, your poor, Your
huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming
shore", seem to me to echo and compete with Jesus Christ's words in Matthew
11 : 28 - 30, which says this:
28 "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest.
29 "Take My Yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in
heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
30 "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
Revelation ch. 18 : 17 - 19 describes the new Babylon as a great world
seaport and center of trade, and New York City is this. The New York Stock
Exchange, Wall Street, and The United Nations Organization have their
headquarters in New York City. The Hudson, Harlem, East, and Hackensack
Rivers empty into New York City, and many rivers in Connecticut also empty
into Long Island Sound. The place where the East River meets Long Island
Sound is called Hell Gate. On Long Island, there are suburbs of New York
City called North Babylon, West Babylon, and Babylon. Manhattan Island comes
from the Algonquian American Indian word Man-a-hat-ta, which means Island of
the Hills. Manhattan's Central Park, which covers 840 acres, or 340 hectares
in other words, has hills that rise and fall in gentle slopes. Manhattan's
Washington Heights and west-central area along the Hudson River also has
small hills. The rest of Manhattan's hills have been leveled and excavated
away, with much of the rubble used as reclamation in Manhattan's many sea
wharves.
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| User: "Docky Wocky" |
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| Title: Re: These Are American War Crimes, Pure And Simple |
20 Dec 2004 11:41:21 PM |
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Sounds suspiciously like the ACLU is just itching for a confrontation with
the anti-terrorists about stuff going on in Cuba.
Maybe it is time they get their confrontation.
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