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Tuesday, June 08, 2010

interesting BBC article-- Iran, nuclear, and torture

On the BBC homepage this afternoon was linked an article describing a somewhat confusing situation: two video clips (on YouTube?) showing an Iranian nuclear scientist first claiming he was abducted by US agents in Saudi Arabia (and flown to the US after abduction), and the second saying he was happily living in Tuscon, AZ. I hope whatever is going on turns out fine for everyone involved, but the interesting/ironic part of the article was the response from the US spokesperson:
A US official told the BBC: "It's absurd for anyone to say that the United States is in the business of torturing people into false claims of defection - or anything else. That's not how we work."
Because evidently we work by torturing people into giving names and details of people involved in terrorist activity. See "Bay, Guantanamo"; "Ghraib, Abu", and "Bagram Theater Internment Facility". Long-term sleep deprivation, loud music, cold, forced nakedness, dogs, repeated simulated drowning . . . That's evidently how we work.

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