The European Court of Human Rights has issued an historic judgement on the case of Khaled el-Masri, the German citizen unfortunate enough to have a similar name to a militant named Khalid al-Masri.
The court confirmed CIA agents tortured and sodomized el-Masri in front of Macedonian state police, and found the Macedonian government complicit in his secret torture by CIA officials.
In a case of mistaken identity, Masri was kidnapped in 2004 by the CIA and sent to multiple black sites in Baghdad and Afghanistan for abuse. The CIA figured out they had the wrong man after months of torture, and dumped him on a desolate road in Albania.
Masri attempted to sue the CIA over the abuse, but the US courts threw out the case on national security grounds, saying information about the case could never be made public. The German government briefly issued Interpol warrants for the agents involved in Masri’s kidnapping, but dropped this after the State Department threatened “repercussions” from pursuing the case.
The ruling will get Masri roughly $70,000 in compensation from the Macedonian government, and adds renewed interest to his case, with UN human rights officials urging the US government to apologize for its central role in the incident.
On this planet, these days, that the US has destroyed any sense of justice, descency, accountability, it's refreshing that every once in a while there are a few glimers of justice wherever they may come from.
You haven't been prisoned in one of those European prisons.., have you…? Just a note.., English just paid their torture victims, tell human right to look into it more…, they will find some interesting cases in German or the Swedish or other Europeans prisoners as foreigners and asylum sicker are prisoned, treated like animals in Greece or Italy or Germany or Sweden…, so is a family matter…, like son like father.
Yawn…………. Old News….. The BIG NEW NEWS……….. Killing children is O.K. if they posses "hostile intent" whatever that is or appears to be…The IDF has been killing kids for quite some time now….. and like the drones…. any new form of murder is all the fashion when it first appears…. so America has to decided to "open it's aperture to include targeting children So watch your children…!!! The Bosses are now killing kids…!!! http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/03/24/1…
Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children’s graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription “Better use Durex,” next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him…..
Over here in the U.S it's Lt Col Marion Carrington told the Marine Corp Times that children, as well as "military-age males", had been identified as a potential threat because some were being used by the Taliban to assist in attacks against Afghan and coalition forces.
"It kind of opens our aperture," said Carrington, whose unit, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was assisting the Afghan police. "In addition to looking for military-age males, it's looking for children with potential hostile intent."
The piece also quoted an unnamed marine corps official who questioned the "innocence" of Afghan children, particularly three who were killed in a US rocket strike in October. Last month, the New York Times quoted local officials who said Borjan, 12, Sardar Wali, 10, and Khan Bibi, eight, from Helmand's Nawa district had been killed while gathering dung for fuel.
AND!!!: Under the [relatively new] US definition, all fighting-age males killed in drone strikes are regarded as combatants and not civilians, unless there is explicit evidence to the contrary. This has the effect of significantly reducing the official tally of civilian deaths. Aparently children are the next to be considered insurgents unless proved not to be BERORE they are killed by US…!!!!
http://www.thenation.com/blog/171582/us-military-… http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/07/us-mi… http://youwillanyway2.blogspot.com/2012/12/openin…
Yawn…………. Old News….. The BIG NEW NEWS……….. Killing children is O.K. if they posses "hostile intent" whatever that is or appears to be…The IDF has been killing kids for quite some time now….. and like the drones…. any new form of murder is all the fashion when it first appears…. so America has to decided to "open it's aperture to include targeting children So watch your children…!!! The Bosses are now killing kids…!!! http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/03/24/1…
Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children’s graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription “Better use Durex,” next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him…..
Over here in the U.S it's Lt Col Marion Carrington told the Marine Corp Times that children, as well as "military-age males", had been identified as a potential threat because some were being used by the Taliban to assist in attacks against Afghan and coalition forces.
"It kind of opens our aperture," said Carrington, whose unit, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was assisting the Afghan police. "In addition to looking for military-age males, it's looking for children with potential hostile intent."
The piece also quoted an unnamed marine corps official who questioned the "innocence" of Afghan children, particularly three who were killed in a US rocket strike in October. Last month, the New York Times quoted local officials who said Borjan, 12, Sardar Wali, 10, and Khan Bibi, eight, from Helmand's Nawa district had been killed while gathering dung for fuel.
AND!!!: Under the [relatively new] US definition, all fighting-age males killed in drone strikes are regarded as combatants and not civilians, unless there is explicit evidence to the contrary. This has the effect of significantly reducing the official tally of civilian deaths. Aparently children are the next to be considered insurgents unless proved not to be BERORE they are killed by US…!!!!
http://www.thenation.com/blog/171582/us-military-… http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/07/us-mi… http://youwillanyway2.blogspot.com/2012/12/openin…
Short history of the "Star Chamber"
Habeas corpus has been abandoned for the outcasts of the [NEW] [WORLD???] order in both the US and the UK, secret courts have been created to hear secret evidence, guilt has been inferred by association, torture and rendition nakedly justified (in the UK our government's lawyers continue to argue positively for the right to use the product of both) and vital international conventions consolidated in the aftermath of the Second World War – the Geneva Convention, the Refugee Convention, the Torture Convention – have been deliberately avoided or ignored.
It is the bitterest of ironies that John Lilburne, the most important organizer of the rights we in this country and the United States claim and on which our respective constitutions, written and unwritten, were built, achieved this in large part as a consequence of his having been himself subjected to torture, to accusations based on secret evidence and heard by a secret court, to being shackled and held in extremes of isolation which exposed him nevertheless to public humiliation and condemnation.
The worst excesses of the last ten years, which destroyed the certainties of those hard-won rights, should have sounded loud alarms, not least because of that precise historical parallel; one key in attempting to hang on to legal and moral concepts under attack is to remember their origin.
Lilburne, an intractable young Puritan, with a strong sense of his rights as a freeborn Englishman and a smattering of law, in 1637 was summoned before the Court of Star Chamber – a court comprising nothing more than a small committee of the Privy Council, without a jury, empowered to investigate. Lilburne had recently been in Holland and was charged, o n the basis of information from an informant, with sending loosely defined "fatuous and scandalous" religious books to England. His defence was straightforward: “I am clear I have sent none.” Thereafter he refused to answer questions based on allegations kept secret from him as to his association with others suspected of involvement in the sending of the books: “I think by the law of the land that I may stand upon my just defence, and that my accusers ought to be brought face to face to justify what they accuse me of.” For his refusal, he was fined 500 pounds, a fortune for an apprentice, and was lashed to a cart and whipped thought the streets of London from Fleet to Westminster.
Lilburne was locked in a pillory in an unbearable posture (in today’s terminology a “stress position”), but yet exhorted all who would listen to resist the tyranny of the bishops, repeating biblical texts to the crowd applicable to the wrongs done to him and their rights. On being required to incriminate himself: “No man should be compelled to be his own executioner.” He survived two and a half years in Fleet prison, gagged and kept in solitary confinement, shackled and starving. The first act of the Long Parliament in November 1642 was to set him free, to abolish the Court of Star Chamber and to adopt a resolution that its sentence was “illegal and against the liberty of the subject, and also bloody, cruel, wicked, barbarous and tyrannical.”
Above entirely lifted from: http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/105/why-we-tort…. One parenthetical insert in caps by me….. EVERYONE HERE SHOULD BE CONVERSANT ON THE ABOVE..!!
I'm just trying to imagine what kind of human scum could get it up to sodomize a prisoner.
I take you have never visited Albania or FYROM?
To sodomize prisoners is systematically used as a form of torture by not just the USA, but also by nations the US has rendered people to, like gulf states. Read about the testimonies of former prisoners of Abu Gharib, most notably there was prisoner in his early teens who was raped brutally.
Honestly, there are A LOT of such incidents, but we don't hear a single word about them in the MSM. Nevertheless, i am hopeful that 1 day the truth of this oppression will come out and be known to the world.
"I'm just trying to imagine what kind of human scum could get it up to sodomize a prisoner."
Probably most American presidents from Obama to Bush to Clinton to Bush Sr. to Reagan….