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 Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 10:43 pm Post subject: Kidnapped by CIA, Flown to Uzbekistan and Boiled to Death |
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Kidnapped by CIA, Flown to Uzbekistan and Boiled to Death:
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All in the name of the United States of America.
"We get assurances they will not be tortured."
Yet it is exactly why the secret renditions and
illegal CIA kidnappings happen around the world.
Several hundreds of people have been kidnapped
around the world for torture by CIA. Over 68,000
non-american people are being held prisoner in
secret CIA and not so secret US military camps.
Proud American journalists stay meekly quiet about
this in their patriotism.
Fascist dictators like Hitler started by teaching
journalists to keep their mouths shut and only
criticize those the nazis wanted.
Would you have licked the butt of Hitler?
History will remember people like you.
- C.B.
http://news.baou.com/main.php?action=recent&rid=20254
Amnesty International Report Upsetting Only Because Its True
by Brian Richards
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- (OfficialWire) -- 06/03/05 --
We all know that George W. Bush suffers from impaired speaking, but in
fact, he does not know what the Hell he's talking about. Or he does and
hes a liar. Either way, he's an idiot.
There is no question that America, under the leadership of the Bush
administration, has developed extensive systems of abuse and continues
with outrageous illegal behavior, in the name of its brand of Freedom.
Amnesty recently criticized the Bush administration's treatment of
detainees at Guantanamo Bay, calling the facility "the gulag of our
times," a reference to political prisoners held by the former Soviet
Union.
Bush and his supporters quickly responded by calling the accusation
absurd.
"I'm aware of the Amnesty International report, and it's absurd - it's an
absurd allegation," Bush said.
It would appear the Bush administration objects to Amnesty's use of the
word "gulag". Often people automatically assume "gulag" refers to
work-camps, but a closer look reveals a more broad definition, including:
"A place or situation of great suffering and hardship, likened to the
atmosphere in a prison system or a forced labor camp."
If that isn't a universally accepted description of the conditions for the
detainees at Guantanamo Bay, then what is?
For the Bush administration to call Amnestys assessment of America's
pattern of abuse "absurd" is to not understand the definition of the word.
The pattern of abuse is both well-reported and undeniable. The only
question is why the American public continues to permit it?
The Bush administration selected Guantanamo Bay with the intention of
preventing the prisoners from having access to U.S. courts. Bush has
refused to designate them "prisoners of war," which would have put them
under the legal protection of the Geneva Convention, despite the fact that
America is conducting a global war on terror.
There are reports that a number of children under age 16 are among the
detainees at Guantanamo Bay, but no independent agency has been permitted
access to verify their condition, or to determine where or why they were
arrested.
I suspect the Bush administration's only real objection to the term
"gulag" is that they had not thought to put these "disappeared" prisoners
to work (yet).
I wonder whether or not when America begins to see "Made In Guantanamo" on
its products, will its citizens act to remove Bush, or will they celebrate
the lower prices?
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0516,hentoff,63104,6.html
The CIA's Kidnapping Ring
U.S. ally Uzbekistan teaches interrogators how to boil suspected
terrorists to death
by Nat Hentoff
April 15th, 2005 1:13 PM
U.S. law and international conventions bar sending prisoners to another
nation unless there are strong assurances of humane treatment. The CIA
says with a straight face that it gets those assurances before delivering
suspects to jailers in Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and
Pakistancountries that have such abysmal human rights records that
promises of decent treatment are a joke. Editorial, Los Angeles Times,
March 11
But of course they're out of control, there's only so much we can do.
Porter Goss, director of Central Intelligence, quoted by Democratic
congressman Edward Markey of Massachusetts in a letter to his colleagues,
March 8
During a White House press conference on March 16, George W. Bush was
asked: "Mr. President, can you explain why you've approved of and expanded
the practice of what's called 'rendition'of transferring individuals out
of U.S. custody to countries where human rights groups and your own State
Department say torture is common for people under custody?"
The president: "[In] the post-9-11 world, the United States must make sure
we protect our people and our friends from attack. . . . One way to do so
is to arrest people and send them back to their country of origin with the
promise that they won't be tortured. That's the promise we receive. This
country does not believe in torture."
Question: "As commander in chief, what is it that Uzbekistan can do in
interrogating an individual that the United States can't?"
George W. Bush repeated his talking point: "We seek assurances that nobody
will be tortured."
Actually, there is much that U.S. interrogators can learn from their
counterparts in Uzbekistan on how to break down prisoners. One of the
CIA's jet planes used to render purported terrorists to other
countrieswhere information is extracted by any means necessarymade 10
trips to Uzbekistan. In a segment of CBS's 60 Minutes on these CIA torture
missions (March 5), former British ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray
told of the range of advanced techniques used by Uzbek interrogators:
"drowning and suffocation, rape was used . . . and also immersion of limbs
in boiling liquid."
Two nights later on ABC's World News Tonight, Craig Murray told of photos
he received of an Uzbek interrogation that ended with the prisoner
actually being boiled to death!
Murray, appalled, had protested to the British Foreign Office in a
confidential memorandum leaked to and printed in the Financial Times on
October 11 of last year:
"Uzbek officials are torturing prisoners to extract information [about
reported terrorist operations], which is supplied to the U.S. and passed
through its Central Intelligence Agency to the U.K., says Mr. Murray."
(Emphasis added.)
Prime Minister Tony Blair quickly reacted to this undiplomatic
whistle-blowing. Craig Murray was removed as ambassador to Uzbekistan.
On the BBC (October 15), Steve Crawshaw, director of the London office of
Human Rights Watch, spoke plainly about George W. Bush's continual, ardent
assurances that this country would never engage in torture:
"You can't wash your hands and say we didn't torture, but we will use what
comes out of torture."
CIA director Porter Goss also engages in what George Orwell called
doublespeak. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on
March 17, Porter Goss said, "The United States does not engage in or
condone torture."
As for our ally Uzbekistan, run by the merciless dictator Islam Karimov,
Philip Stephens, a forthright columnist for the Financial Times, noted on
October 19:
"Uzbekistan provides a vital base for U.S. operations in neighbouring
Afghanistan. U.S. financial aid [to Uzbekistan] provides a bulwark against
Russian influence." Anddig thisan October 16 Financial Times editorial
points out that because the Bush administration supports the barbaric
government of President Karimov, the U.S. "has given [Karimov] the
confidence to sell a long-running campaign against internal dissidents as
part of the campaign against Al Qaeda." (Emphasis added.)
In 2003, Fatima Mukhadirova sent photographs of her sonwho was tortured to
death in an Uzbek prisonto the British embassy. As reported in Muslim
Uzbekistan (February 12, 2004): "His teeth were smashed, his fingers were
stripped of nails, and his body had been cut, bruised and scalded." His
mother was put on trial "for attempted encroachment on the constitutional
order" to convince her to shut up about what was done to her son. (She was
subsequently convicted and sentenced to six years in prison.)
Meanwhile, Porter Goss told the Senate Armed Services Committee on March
17 that one of the CIA's own techniques, waterboarding, is "an area of
what I call professional interrogation techniques."
As Reed Brody, special counsel for Human Rights Watch, noted in a March 21
letter to The New York Times: "Waterboarding, known in Latin America as
the submarino, entails forcibly pushing a person's head under water until
he believes he will drown. In practice, he often does. Waterboarding can
be nothing less than torture in violation of United States and
international law.
"Mr. Goss, by justifying the practice as a form of professional
interrogation, renders dubious his broader claim that the C.I.A. is not
practicing torture today." (Emphasis added.)
I cannot resist repeating what George W. Bush said on the United Nations
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (June 26, 2003): "The
United States is committed to the worldwide elimination of torture and we
are leading this fight by example. I call on all governments to join with
the United States . . . in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all
acts of torture." Let's start at home.
http://207.44.245.159/article3943.htm
Our Presidents New Best Friend Boils People Alive
See Also: Just Who Is Our New Best Friend This 29 minute video explores
the reality of life in Uzbekistan
06/26/03: Let me introduce you to our presidents new best friend,
President Karimov of Uzbekistan.
President Karimov government was awarded $500m in aid from the Bush
administration in 2002. The SNB (Uzbekistan's security service) received
$79m of this sum.
The U.S. State Department web site states "Uzbekistan is not a democracy
and does not have a free press. Many opponents of the government have
fled, and others have been arrested." and "The police force and the
intelligence service use torture as a routine investigation technique."
Now I would like to introduce you to Muzafar Avazov, a 35-year old father
of four. Mr Avazov had a visit from our presidents friends security force
(SNB), the photographs below detail the brutality and inhuman treatment
our tax dollars subsidize, with the full knowledge of our president and
his administration.
Muzafar Avazov, body showed signs of burns on the legs, buttocks, lower
back and arms. Sixty to seventy percent of the body was burnt, according
to official sources. Doctors who saw the body reported that such burns
could only have been caused by immersing Avazov in boiling water. Those
who saw the body also reported that there was a large, bloody wound on the
back of the head, heavy bruising on the forehead and side of the neck, and
that his hands had no fingernails.
WARNING
The pictures of Mr. Avazov's body are horrific and should only be viewed
by a mature audience
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH:
Deaths Reveal "Horror" of Uzbek Prisons
(New York, August 10, 2002) Two suspicious deaths with apparent signs of
torture highlight Uzbekistan's brutal ongoing crackdown against
independent Muslims, Human Rights Watch said today. The bodies of Muzafar
Avazov and Husnidin Alimov, both religious prisoners at Jaslyk Prison,
were returned to family members for burial in Tashkent Thursday.
Individuals who had seen one of the bodies told Human Rights Watch that it
showed clear signs of torture. The authorities reportedly restricted
viewing of the second body. Both men had been imprisoned at Jaslyk Prison,
well-known for its harsh conditions and ill-treatment and torture of
religious prisoners.
Human Rights Watch has learned that the body of Muzafar Avazov, a 35-year
old father of four, showed signs of burns on the legs, buttocks, lower
back and arms. Sixty to seventy percent of the body was burnt, according
to official sources. Doctors who saw the body reported that such burns
could only have been caused by immersing Avazov in boiling water. Those
who saw the body also reported that there was a large, bloody wound on the
back of the head, heavy bruising on the forehead and side of the neck, and
that his hands had no fingernails.
"These deaths reveal the horror of Uzbek prisons," said Elizabeth
Andersen, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central
Asia Division. "It seems the small signs of progress on torture we had
seen were mere window-dressing, intended to hide Uzbekistan's persistent
problem and placate international critics."
These latest incidents of serious human rights violations could complicate
Uzbekistan's relations with the United States. The United States has
allied itself closely with Uzbekistan in the war against terrorism, but
U.S. government officials have expressed concern that Uzbekistan's harsh
treatment of independent Muslims could be counterproductive to the
anti-terror effort. The U.S. government recently adopted a law requiring
that before delivering aid to the Uzbek government, the Bush
administration must determine that Uzbekistan is making "substantial and
continuing progress" in meeting the human rights commitments contained in
a U.S.-Uzbekistan March 2002  declaration.
Uzbek authorities, including numerous police officers, brought the body of
Muzafar Avazov, to the family home at about 3:30 p.m. on August 8. Police
cars surrounded the area and checked visitors who approached the house,
preventing some from entering. When the burial occurred at 6:00 p.m. that
evening, police closed the road to traffic. Authorities from the office of
General Prosecutor Rashidjon Kodirov reportedly threatened the family not
to talk to the media or give interviews to others about the circumstances
surrounding Avazov's death. In May 2002, Human Rights Watch received
reports that prison authorities had beaten Muzafar Avazov and put him in a
punishment cell for stating that nothing could stop him from performing
his prayers.
The authorities also returned the body of 34-year old Husnidin Alimov to
his family in Tashkent on August 8, but they reportedly restricted viewing
of the body. Prior to the death, relatives of people imprisoned in Jaslyk
told Human Rights Watch that prison officials had placed Alimov in a
punishment cell. He was reportedly placed there before the end of June and
spent many weeks there before his death. Prisoners are often placed in
such cells for praying or refusing to ask for forgiveness from Uzbek
President Islam Karimov. Conditions are reportedly severe and beatings
common. "Deaths under such circumstances are highly suspicious," said
Andersen. "The Uzbek government must ensure that full and open
investigations are conducted into these deaths and into the conditions and
treatment of prisoners in Jaslyk. There is an urgent need for regular,
independent, international monitoring of conditions there." A large number
of police accompanied Alimov's body and were present during the funeral.
The father of another man who died in May, apparently after terrible
beatings in Jaslyk, was reportedly detained by police directly after the
funeral and sentenced Friday to 15 days in custody on an administrative
charge, related to his attendance at the funeral. Police reportedly
questioned him about how he heard about the funeral and why he attended.
Both men were serving prison sentences on charges related to their
religious activity. Since 1997, the government of Uzbekistan has waged a
campaign against religious Muslims who practice their faith outside of
state controls. The peaceful expression of independent religious views has
landed thousands in prison on charges of extremism. The government has
particularly targeted members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a banned Islamic group
that calls for the peaceful reestablishment of the Caliphate in Central
Asia. Uzbek authorities routinely prosecute those accused of affiliation
with the group on charges of anti-state activities or possession or
distribution of "illegal religious materials." "Torture is an unmistakable
feature of this campaign," said Andersen. In the past fifteen months
alone, Human Rights Watch has documented 11 deaths arising from suspicious
circumstances in custody. According to information from the human rights
group Memorial, Alimov was sentenced in 1999 to 16 years in prison, on a
range of charges, including spreading religious "extremist" materials.
Avazov was sentenced in mid-2000 to 20 years in prison. He had been
accused of membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir. His sentence was reduced on
appeal in February 2001 to 19 years.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
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These acts of torture/tyranny MUST be stopped, asap!
These victims are human beings with families & loved ones.
This torture is being paid for with the u.s. citizens tax money!
Bush is going to bankrupt the u.s. for sure.
Our money is being used for things that do not benefit our country at all, let alone any other country.
Hell, it's like a man or woman working a job and spending their paycheck on the family down the street and NOT his own. The justification being that it will make the street safer for his own family by helping the other families. 
Yet he/she is not taking primaty care for his own family first...
That's the kind of logic that is running the usa.
It just don't add up or make any fucking sense...at least to me.
Peace,
Torkel
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