"US Abuse Could Be War Crime"

[GreenPartyVoter]

Repeated abuses allegedly suffered by three British prisoners at the hands of US interrogators and guards in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba could amount to war crimes, the Red Cross said yesterday.

The organization, which maintains a rigidly neutral stance in public, took the unusual step of voicing its concerns in uncompromising language after the former detainees, known as the Tipton Three, revealed that they had been beaten, shackled, photographed naked and in one incident questioned at gunpoint while in US custody.

Their vivid account of the harrowing conditions at the camp, as told to their lawyers and published for the first time in yesterday's Guardian, has reignited the debate about the treatment of prisoners and the British government's role in their questioning and detention.

Last night the Red Cross was joined by the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, which argued that if the allegations were true they indicated systematic abuse, amounting to torture.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0805-02.htm

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. I can feel the love

being beamed at us all over the world. Shrub says America is safer.... while polls taken for anti-American sentiment in Arab and Muslim countries is in the single digits.... what was once in the double digits..... up is down... black is white... war is peace... thinking is not allowed....

Amazing... simply amazing. Never have so few leaders taken the respect for a country down so far... so fast. The should be put away for a very very long time.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I wonder if they'll have to share a cell with Lynndie England?

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[Laura_B_manslaughter]

4. You're right but......

If the dems said that, then the repugs would say the dems are anti-GI and start babbling about how we all must support the troops.

[newyawker99]

5. Hi Laura_B_manslaughter!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[aquart]

7. Welcome to DU. Yes, the GOP supports the troops until

they come home and need their benefits. Hell, they've started knocking out those benefits BEFORE they come home.

So some rich jerk can have gold faucets?

[aquart]

6. Under what circumstances would it NOT be a war crime?