Oct. 5 - President Bush today distanced himself from his administration’s quiet effort to push through a law that would make it easier to send captured terror suspects to countries where torture is used. The proposed law, recently tacked onto a much larger bill despite the fallout from last spring’s interrogation scandal, is seen as an attempt to counter a recent Supreme Court decision that would free some terror detainees being held without trial.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2157

http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20040926075956517
http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/399/14314_profiling.html
http://www.bidstrup.com/exile.htm


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The American Bar Association said Thursday it "objects strongly" to House legislation allowing terror suspects to be sent to countries that use torture. In a statement, the ABA said it "objects strongly to the inclusion of provisions authorizing 'extraordinary rendition' in the House leadership's bill that purports to implement the 9/11 Commission recommendations." The Washington Post said the Bush administration is supporting the provision introduced by House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. But the ABA said the provisions "would permit secretly transferring terrorist suspects to foreign countries known to use torture in interrogating prisoners.

Extraordinary rendition not only violates all basic humanitarian and human rights standards, but violates U.S. treaty obligations which make clear that the U.S. government cannot avoid its obligations under international law by having other nations conduct unlawful interrogations in its stead."

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040930-010128-3162r.htm


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Top Stories - October 2nd, 2004

The prison torture scandal continues to expand. According to Reuters, "A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay said in a letter revealed Friday he was tortured and abused during detention, in what is believed to be the first such claim to come from inside the prison. Moazzam Begg also said he had partially witnessed the deaths of two detainees at the hands of U.S. military personnel ... and this 'suggests that he's been a witness to at least one murder.'"

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2127

Der im US-Repräsentantenhaus eingebrachte Gesetzesentwurf für die Geheimdienste will auch die bereits geübte Praxis legitimieren, Nicht-US-Bürger zur Befragung in Folterländer zu schicken: eine Verletzung des UN-Abkommens gegen Folter...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/co/18457/1.html

The Bush administration is supporting a provision in the House leadership's intelligence reform bill that would allow U.S. authorities to deport certain foreigners to countries where they are likely to be tortured or abused, an action prohibited by the international laws against torture the United States signed 20 years ago.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2110

http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk09282004.html


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