[Ir-l] Is the US going to regularise torture of WTC suspects?

[karen banks]

hi paul

we're in seoul - chat was saying that she had been reading similar pieces 
in the international herald tribune on the flight from manila.. most 
worrying is that mainstream journalists seem to be advocating this..

karen

At 22:47 06/11/2001 +0000, Paul Mobbs wrote:
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>Hi all,
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>I was listening to 'The World Tonight' when they interviewed a guy from the
>US about the proposal to allow torture of the suspects detained for the World
>Trade Centre attacks. It sounded like an April fool at first, but then I
>managed to track down the Newsweek article it was referring to:
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>'Time to think about torture'
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/648868.asp?cp1=1
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>Quote:
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>"COULDN'T WE AT LEAST subject them to psychological torture, like tapes of
>dying rabbits or high-decibel rap? (The military has done that in Panama and
>elsewhere.) How about truth serum, administered with a mandatory IV? Or
>deportation to Saudi Arabia, land of beheadings? (As the frustrated FBI has
>been threatening.) Some people still argue that we needn't rethink any of our
>old assumptions about law enforcement, but they're hopelessly "Sept.
>10"-living in a country that no longer exists."
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>How do you deal with completely screwy, but in the current circumstances
>possibly likely, stuff like this???  (well, i'll just email all my friends
>for starters).
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>P.
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