[Marxism] The Trail of Torture: Orders from High Places

[Rosa RL <rosarl65@xxxxxxxxx>]

The following article sums up what was already known
before the latest revelations came out.

The Trail of Torture: Orders from High Places

from http://rwor.org

After September 11, the U.S. government unleashed a
global offensive. Thousands of people were rounded up
by U.S. agents both within the U.S. and around the
world. U.S. intelligence agencies, with a long history
of torture, were ordered to go all out to get
"actionable intelligence" and punish adversaries by
any means necessary.

The now familiar forms of abuse and torture were
applied from the beginning.

During the Afghan war, thousands of prisoners were
taken to the Qala-i-Janghi fortress where CIA
interrogators beat and humiliated them. The captives
rose up, killing a CIA agent on the spot. The U.S.
Army called in air strikes, killing hundreds. The
survivors were sealed into metal cargo containers by
U.S. Special Forces, 300 at a time, without water or
sanitation, for days of convoy transport under
horrific conditions. Hundreds died of thirst,
suffocation, and untreated wounds--while the living
remained locked up in the oven-like heat with the
decomposing bodies of the dead. Most of the survivors
were then simply shot on arrival and thrown into mass
graves at Dasht Leile. It is one of great war crimes
of modern times.

Asked about it, Rumsfeld said: "I do not feel even the
slightest concern about their treatment." http://rwor.org/a/1241/iraqtorture.htm


        
                
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