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Outsourcing Torture

Feb 11, 2005 23:08

( On January 27th, President Bush, in an interview with the Times, assured the world that 'torture is never acceptable, nor do we hand over people to countries that do torture.' Maher Arar, a Canadian engineer who was born in Syria, was surprised to learn of Bush's statement. Two and a half years ago, American officials, suspecting Arar of being a terrorist, apprehended him in New York and sent him back to Syria, where he endured months of brutal interrogation, including torture. When Arar described his experience in a phone interview recently, he invoked an Arabic expression. The pain was so unbearable, he said, that 'you forget the milk that you have been fed from the breast of your mother.' )

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Isn't it odd how we never hear about orange alerts anymore... viedma February 17 2005, 20:42:21 UTC

I read this yesterday morning, thank you for the link. The last four years have really opened my eyes to how useless and counterproductive revenge is.