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September 2, 2006 at 20:13:39

Many High Bush Officials Broke Laws Against Torture

by Sherwood Ross     Page 3 of 3 page(s)

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Title 18 of the U.S. Code makes it a crime for an American to commit torture "outside the United States " and authorizes fines and prison terms of up to 20 years. If deaths result, those convicted may be jailed for life or executed. HRF has charged as of April, 2005, 108 foreign detainees had died in U.S. custody.

CCR President Michael Ratner said, "the existence of 'torture memos' drafted by administration officials and the authorization of techniques that violated humanitarian law by Secretary Rumsfeld, Lt. General Sanchez and others make clear that responsibility for Abu Ghraib and other violations of law reaches all the way to the top."



Calling for an investigation, Amnesty International's Jumana Musa, warned, "Torture thrives on impunity. By not holding accountable the people who drafted and implemented the policies, the US government is giving a wink and a nod to torturers world wide."
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(Sherwood Ross is an American reporter who has worked for major dailies and as a wire service columnist. To comment on this article or arrange for speaking engagements: sherwoodr1@yahoo.com)

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Sherwood Ross has worked as a publicist for the City of Chicago and as a public relations consultant to New York City. He worked as news director for the National Urban League; as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and a workplace columnist for Reuters. He has also been a media consultant to colleges, universities, law schools and more than 100 national magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Business Week, and Foreign Policy. Ross also was a talk show host at WOL Radio, Washington, D.C., and holds an award for "best spot news coverage" for Chicago radio stations. He is the author "Gruening of Alaska,"(Best)and several plays, including "Baron Jiro," produced at Live Arts Theatre, Charlottesville, Va., and "Yamamoto's Decision," read at the National Press Club, where he is a member. His favorite quotations are from the Sermon on The Mount.

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Don'pigeon hole me or sterotype me
pratliff94Don'pigeon hole me or sterotype me

Torture

Just because there is "Special Rendition" it does not follow there is torture. To put Clinton in the same catagory as Bush II is silly,no it is dishonest and ethically bankrupt. The right and wrong of Special Rendition totally depends on the case and situation. In order to fight a war against terrorism, the government must have some tools. Since the terrorist have no ground rules about the brutal murder of civilian and are told by Ayman al-Zawahri and Adam Yehiye Gadahn that "no Muslim should shed tears for Westerners killed by al-Qaida attacks" which means innocent women and babies murdered on trains and airlines or even young Muslim girls at weddings in Jordan who have nothing to with this war should be mourned. The radical Muslims have no compassion or love for anyone or anything. They are like the god and prophet they worship.

How come all these verbal attacks are always against the West and never against the dark evils of radical Islam such as Hebollah's cowardly hiding behind women and children? This war in Iraq is ridiculous. It has nothing to do with the death struggle with radical Islam, and the torturing of anyone is just to get down on the same despicable level of evil as the evil radical Islamists themselves. If we could "Special Rendition" the whole leadership of the radical Islamist out of whatever country, we would be mortally remiss in our duties to not do that, and I do mean MORTALLY and not morally. If Bush One or Clinton had Special Renditioned Osama ben Laden out of Afghanistan or Sudan, we would not be in the mess with thousand upon thousands of innocent people being murdered by these radicals.

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