Seized, held, tortured: six tell same tale

December 6, 2005

Mamdouh Habib, 49, an Australian citizen, was caught up in the rendition system after being arrested near the Pakistani-Afghan border shortly after the 9/11 attacks.

Maher Arar, 34, a Canadian citizen, was seized in September 2002 while travelling through JFK airport in New York, on his way home after a holiday in Tunisia.

The plight of two Yemeni friends, Salah Nasser Salim 'Ali, 27, and Muhammad Faraj Ahmed Bashmilah, 37, arrested separately in August 2003.

Ahmed Agiza, 43, a doctor, and Muhammad Zery, 36, were abducted in Stockholm in December 2001, with the connivance of the Swedish government.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1658934,00.html

It is starting to look like the torture of detainees is the norm not the exception.

I am beyond disgusted with the cable coverage of saddam's crimes when bush is guilty of the same torture, rape rooms and more.

I don't like this new version. I would rather risk another attack and deal with perpetrators in the courts than arrest thousands of innocent people and hold them in gulags indefinitely - that deprivation of family, friends, and basic freedom is the ultimate torture....

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:mad:

I am sad and ashamed. :blush:

-Laelth