Comments on: Muslim Says He Was Abducted By U.S.

Khaled El-Masri Says He Spent 5 Months In Harsh Captivity In Case Of Mistaken Identity

[bluestardad]

Baghdad Bob has been brought in to help the Bush Administration and is working behind the scene to help Tony Snow polish up his presentation. It is also rumored that good ole Bob is being considered for employment on Fox News Channel.

[Syndicate]

I think I would rather be a prisoner in American custody than in al queda custody.

[dubdub32]

BUSH should get the same treatment that Nixon got even though Nixon was a piker compared to our glorious dictator....then, he should be exported to Iraq so that he could receive his rendition by the people who love him dearly

[frankly6]

We have become an enemy of freedom to defeat one.

[grumpas]

Regardless of who started this deplorable practice. We need to insist our leaders get away from it. It reminds me to much of the old Soviet Union. Where people disappeared for years and were lucky they were ever seen again! I don't think when all is said and done it does anything to combat terrorism! In fact, in might well aid it! So many practices like this do play into the enemy! It goes against everything we as a nation are supposed to stand for.

The CIA is another word for legal terror

Accountability is what is needed.

Bush needs to be put on trial, and if he is found guilty, punished appropriately.

I suggest that he be subjected to "extraordinary rendition".

The punishment would be fitting.

[book54552134]

The issue of whether US officials have tortured prisoners or rendered them to 3rd parties for that practice is no longer in question. The question that remains is how far up these directives came from & whether any US officials involved in such war crimes will ever be held accountable. Much will depend upon whether the Democratic Congress will uphold changes in the War Crimes Act of 1996 which was revised by the present Republican Congress (at the direction of the Bush Administration) in order to hold US officals legally blameless for war crimes they committed under direction of the Bush Administration. We shall see if Democrats uphold this travesty of justice or whether their moral ideals are higher than the legislative corruption we have seen recently from Republicans in regard to this issue. Torture & rendition for that purpose is a war crime - pure & simple.

[ketch65]

"Extraordinary rendition" is not just one crime - it's a series of crimes involving kidnapping, torture and even murder at times.

if they do capture lots of innocent people, soon they'll have to kill them to hide the evidence of torturing innocent people,,,

imagine all those people,,,,

[feelfree1]

mcdazz, 12:04 AM : Nov 29, 2006

I agree completely. Very good.

"Extraordinary rendition" is not just one crime - it's a series of crimes involving kidnapping, torture and even murder at times.

It should be pointed out that it wasn't Bush who introduced "extraordinary rendition", but Clinton.

As far as I'm concerned, Clinton and Bush both need to be held accountable for the crimes collectively referred to as "extraordinary rendition".

The US Government has virtually admitted torturing El-Masri by stating that they would be giving away State secrets should it go to trial.

Bush should be held accountable - and all those Governments involved should also be held accountable.

[ketch65]

In May, a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia quashed the civil lawsuit seeking compensatory damages by accepting the U.S. government%u2019s argument that a public trial over El-Masri claims would expose "state secrets."

No, the thing is, they have admitted having these secret torture bases already, all they have to do, is say "yes this man was a "guest" at one of these places" and "yes he was interogated" and then that's it, they have admitted what he wants admitted, not all the relative secrets to their locales, etc.

Among the secrets to be protected, government lawyers say, are the identities of operatives at home and abroad, cooperating foreign governments and companies, and intelligence gathering sources and methods.

I didn't know he wanted all the exposed, I thought he wanted an apology and the government to admit he is one of the multitudes falsey terrorized by terroist seeking terrorists.

[akarsno]

Soon one day ... we won't be the greatest nation in the world, god only knows what kind of super artillery the chinese have. We as usual are always bragging what new tchnologies we have and to sell.
Like I said ... better to watch out backs before we become second best instead of number one.
I always like to think America are the good guys in any situation and it is the land of dreams but don't let our greed get in the way.
And lets get back to basic that what made the constituition stand for what it is.

[feelfree1]

Wile we already know of people that have been tortured TO DEATH at the hands of U.S. agents, the Western media continues to treat this subject as if the existence of U.S. sponsored torture operations remain in question.

www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/9641/printer

The Nazis were found guilty at Nuremberg for remarkably similar actions as are being taken by the illegitimate Bush regime. Many of the top Nazi leaders were convicted and sentenced to hanging for their deeds.

The U.S. government is Constitutionally bound to abide by any and all international treaties of which the U.S. is a signatory. The Nuremberg Charter is one such treaty.

I look forward to the day that Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Wurmser, Kristol, Kagan, Rumsfeld, Rice, Gonzales, Ashcroft, Baker, and the rest of the putrid criminals that have hijacked our government, and so deeply disgraced our nation, are finally held to account for their many heinously criminal and anti-human acts.

The world will rejoice on that day.

[akarsno]

i just think the goverment of American preaches one thing and do another.
So don't do that if you can;t keep to your word.
Don't tell others how to run their own country.
Just do it yourself with yours!
China is getting bigger than you and they have the largest population in the world.
Be careful if I were you ... as they say the chinese are very sly in doing business in the world. you would never know what goes on in their back yard what with our so called information on spies an what not ... when we cannot even get our facts right about anything now a days or proper information on terrorist that is wanting to hurt us.
We keep giving china the trades in anything.

[jumkey]

Oh, so it's "alleged" torture CBS? Thank god he isn't allegedly dead.

The standard for torture is well know and excepted. If the US did it we committed torture.

Ask the *** questions or go into another line of work CBS.