New evidence of a secret torture prison?
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more from News:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/04/28/poland_prison/index.html
"My eyes were covered with a cloth tied around my head. A cloth bag was then pulled over my head … I fell asleep ... I therefore don't know how long the journey lasted."The trained airplane and helicopter pilot had been hired by Aero Contractors, a company that transferred prisoners around the world for U.S. intelligence agencies. According to documents from the European aviation safety agency Eurocontrol, Jerry M. had taken off from Kabul at 8:51 a.m. that morning. Only hours after landing in Poland, at 7:16 p.m., he took off again, headed for Washington.
A large number of Polish and American intelligence operatives have since gone on record that the CIA maintained a prison in northeastern Poland. Independent of these sources, Polish government officials from the Justice and Defense Ministry have also reported that the Americans had a secret base near Szymany airport. And so began on March 7, 2003, one of the darkest chapters of recent American -- and European -- history.
It was apparently here, just under an hour's drive from Szymany airport, that Sheikh Mohammed was tortured exactly 183 times with waterboarding -- an interrogation technique that simulates the sensation of drowning -- in March 2003 alone. That averages out to eight times a day.
Over six years later, these acts of torture are putting President Obama under intense pressure. On the one hand, he released four memos in which his predecessor George W. Bush had legalized such interrogation methods. On the other hand, he decided not to prosecute the torturers. And he initially neglected to launch investigations into these "special interrogation methods."
For more than a year now, Warsaw public prosecutor Robert Majewski has been investigating former Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller's government on allegations of abuse of office. At issue is whether sovereignty over Polish territory was relinquished, and whether former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and his left-leaning Social Democratic government gave the CIA free reign over sections of the Stare Kiejkuty military base for the agency's extraterritorial torture interrogations."
MUCH more at link, very interesting! What do you think?
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It sounds scary just thinking about it. The individuals that carried out the water boarding torture shouldn't be prosecuted but if someone was to be prosecuted it should be the individuals that ordered it. Before we start prosecuting maybe we should take a step back and analyze the message we might be sending to the terrorists. Terrorists are the scum of the earth that take innocent lives so maybe they should be treated this way especially if it saves lives. Before you feel sorry for them remember 911 as that should be enough to justify it. If not I still remember the hostage situation in 1979 when terrorist groups in Iran took 52 Americans hostage and how they ruined there lives and there families lives. Iran basically held the USA hostage for 444 days. No one or ones family should have to ever go through that. The terrorist had no feelings for the lives they took in 911 and actually celebrated the killing of Americans. Why should we feel sorry for people that want to kill us and will if given the opportunity? Let’s send the message that America is not to be messed with and if you do mess with us then there will be dire consequences.
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