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| US terror strategy illegal - expert | ||
| 2006-01-14 | ||
| US policies in the war on terror are contravening international laws on human rights, a top European investigator says. Which law?
Oh, I was hoping he had something original "The current administration in Washington is trying to combat terrorism outside legal means, the rule of law." Well, we're using violence, just as the enemy does. That is illegal in most places. Except in self defence.
Swiss? Quelle surprise! "The question is: Was the CIA really working in Europe?" Marty said. "I believe we can say today, without a doubt, yes." I'm glad to hear the CIA is working somewhere. I had begun to have serious doubts about that. The Council of Europe, based in Strasbourg, France, began its investigation after allegations surfaced in November that US agents interrogated key al Qaida suspects at clandestine prisons in Eastern Europe and transported some suspects to other countries via Europe. New York-based Human Rights Watch identified Romania and Poland as possible sites of secret US-run detention facilities. Both countries have denied involvement. "Lies, all lies!" Marty said that European countries had "a fairly shocking attitude" toward US policies, and that attention should not be focused solely on Romania and Poland. Yes. I'm shocked! It's not like we're talking about Darfur or even Kosovo. "All the indications are that this 'extraordinary rendition' was already known about," Marty told a news conference in the Swiss town of Burgdorf, referring to the CIA programme of transferring terrorism suspects to third countries where some allegedly were subjected to torture. | ||
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #15 Support your local and national Death Camp(s) and Killing Fields, Dang It. Commie Airborne, aka UNO America-based Peacekeeping garrisons, are people too, you know. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-01-14 21:41 |
| #14 Gee whizz people, the Chicoms only wanna PC eliminate 200 Million Americans plus take over approximately one-half of America, andor perhaps collude or be accessory to 5-1/2 Bilyuhn of the world's 6.0+B after that - its allegedly good for the world, good for Socialism, OWG, good for China's 1.0 Miyuhn -year old civilization, for trees and whales, and of course "living space". Besides, ala Clintonism Americans demand to be gulagged and destroyed anyway, in the name of Mother Hillary's "for the common/universal good". State-planned national- and planet-wide holocaust is good for you, yours, and everyone, so shut up like a good Amerikan anti-American Socialist, obey the rules and report with your families and pet dog like a good Waffen Soviet People's Army soldier-critter to your local suicide = extermination People's Volunteer station. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-01-14 21:35 |
| #13 "The strategy in place today respects neither human rights nor the Geneva Conventions," said Dick Marty, the head of a European investigation into alleged CIA prisons in Europe. Neither do terrorists, but I don't hear Marty complaining about them. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2006-01-14 19:13 |
| #12 Europe - talking the talk, walking the plank. ROFL! Consider it stolen. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2006-01-14 18:51 |
| #11 Ouch - dead on, 11A5S. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-01-14 18:49 |
| #10 Lenin said "the capitalists will sell us the rope to hang them with." The Tranzis will walk quietly to the gallows, rig the noose, place it around their necks, and calmly pull the trapdoor lever. And they'll throw in the rope for free because they wouldn't want to exploit the poor, long-suffering Islamists. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2006-01-14 17:55 |
| #9 since when is a lawyer an expert on anything but common law? They hire experts. This guy is blowing it out his hole for attention only |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-01-14 17:53 |
| #8 So what qualifies this guy as an expert? Is he even an lawyer? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-01-14 17:25 |
| #7 |
| Posted by: doc 2006-01-14 14:37 |
| #6 Let's let Herr Marty have a look at the prisons, just as soon as the Swiss let us have a look at the bank books. |
| Posted by: Perfessor 2006-01-14 14:35 |
| #5 The man is a self-described "Radical Liberal" -- I need say no more. http://assembly.coe.int/Members/Alpha/4023-en.asp |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-01-14 13:21 |
| #4 Question: If Human Rights Watch ceased to exist tomorrow - would worldwide human rights be better or worse or the same? Same question for Amnesty Int'l. I believe they do more damage than good anymore. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-01-14 12:59 |
| #3 "'The question is: Was the CIA really working in Europe?' Marty said. 'I believe we can say today, without a doubt, yes.'" The question also is: "Is Al-Qaeda living and breathing and working in Europe?" |
| Posted by: The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2006-01-14 12:22 |
| #2 Islamic nut-jobs arent signatory to the Geneva Convention, and don't really abide by it's articles very strictly. You gotta fight fire with fire Dickey. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-01-14 12:01 |
| #1 Europe - talking the talk, walking the plank. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-01-14 11:58 |