Friday, July 07, 2006

Algerian Tells of Dark Odyssey in U.S. Hands

Another example of the moral superiority of America.
The Malawians blindfolded him, and his clothes were cut away, he said. He heard someone taking photographs. Then, he said, the blindfold was removed and the agents covered his eyes with cotton and tape, inserted a plug in his anus and put a disposable diaper on him before dressing him. He said they covered his ears, shackled his hands and feet and drove him to an airplane where they put him on the floor.
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Men in black arrived, he said, and he remembers one shouting at him through an interpreter: "You are in a place that is out of the world. No one knows where you are, no one is going to defend you."
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He said the interrogators left him chained for five days without clothes or food. "They beat me and threw cold water on me, spat at me and sometimes gave me dirty water to drink," he said. "The American man told me I would die there."
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"When I heard it, I asked the Moroccan translator if he understood what we were saying in the recording," Mr. Saidi said. After the Moroccan explained it to the interrogators, Mr. Saidi said, he was never asked about it again.

"Why did they bring me to Afghanistan to ask such questions?" he said in the interview. "Why didn't they ask me in Tanzania? Why did they have to take me away from my family? Torture me?"
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Mr. Saidi said the interrogations eventually stopped. In the late spring or early summer of 2004, he said, he was flown to Tunisia, apparently because his captors thought he was Tunisian.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

ANN COULTER TO BE INVESTIGATED FOR PLAGIARISM?

I guess this is like convicting Al Capone of tax evasion, rather than murder, rum running, etc. But, whatever gets a thug off the street, so to speak.

Monday, July 03, 2006

Push for Government Openness on Right and Left

The writer of this article still has Grover Norquist on his dial-a-quote list.

I think that's fascinating.