Why is Britain conniving at the evil work of the US's secret site in Afghanistan where rendered prisoners are routinely abused?The BBC's revelations about prisoner abuse at the US prison at Bagram airforce base in Afghanistan are the latest in a long line of revelations about abuse at US prisons around the world.President Obama told us that this sort of thing has stopped. Well, it hasn't.Sadly, the Obama administration is up to the former administration's familiar tricks, attempting to block the world from the truth. In April, a federal judge in Washington DC ordered that prisoners in Bagram should be allowed counsel, and the right to be heard in court; the Obama administration refused to comply, and appealed the judgment. People being beaten up in Bagram should, apparently, grin and bear it.The US is spending $50m on a new prison for Bagram, housing more than 1,000 people - to add to the 600 who are already there. Of these, many (including all those in the recent Washington case) were not originally captured in Afghanistan at all, but in other countries. The US then rendered them into Afghanistan.
The BBC's revelations about prisoner abuse at the US prison at Bagram airforce base in Afghanistan are the latest in a long line of revelations about abuse at US prisons around the world.
President Obama told us that this sort of thing has stopped. Well, it hasn't.
Sadly, the Obama administration is up to the former administration's familiar tricks, attempting to block the world from the truth. In April, a federal judge in Washington DC ordered that prisoners in Bagram should be allowed counsel, and the right to be heard in court; the Obama administration refused to comply, and appealed the judgment. People being beaten up in Bagram should, apparently, grin and bear it.
The US is spending $50m on a new prison for Bagram, housing more than 1,000 people - to add to the 600 who are already there. Of these, many (including all those in the recent Washington case) were not originally captured in Afghanistan at all, but in other countries. The US then rendered them into Afghanistan.
President Obama told us that this sort of thing has stopped
Of course, he said this. Except he hasn't even stopped it at guantanamo. Forget all the nonsense about whether he can set them free here there or anywhere. The interrogations are still going on.
So the idea that it's not continuing in any of the other half a hundred odd interrogation centres the US/CIA have stashed around the globe is frankly ludicrous. keep to the Fen Causeway
