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N.Beltov
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posted 01 November 2006 01:52 PM      Profile for N.Beltov   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
A Personal Account: The Horrors of Extraordinary Rendition.

Arar makes it very clear that the result of torture is to produce a "confession" of whatever the torturer wants. Any "evidence" obtained by torture is, therefore, worthless - except as a fraudulent justification for torture.

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Arar: This moment is still vivid in my mind because it was the first I was ever beaten in my life. Then he asked me to open my left hand. He hit me again. And that one missed and hit my wrist. The pain from that hit lasted approximately six months. And then he would ask me questions. And I would have to answer very quickly. And then he would repeat the beating this time anywhere on my, on my body. Sometimes he would take me to a room where I could, where I was alone, I could hear other prisoners being tortured, severely tortured. I remember that I used to hear their screams. I just couldn't believe it, that human beings would do this to other human beings.

And then they would take me back to the interrogation room. Again another set of questions, and the beating starts again and again. On the third day the beating was the worst. They beat me a lot with the cable. And they wanted me to confess that I have been to Afghanistan. This was a big surprise to me because even the Americans who interviewed me, the FBI officials who interviewed me, did not ask me that question. I ended up falsely confessing in order to stop the torture. The torture decreased in intensity.


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Arar: And just to give you an idea about how painful it is to stay in that place--I was ready after a couple of months, I was ready to sign any piece of document for me, not to be released, just to go to another place where it is fit for human being.

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Pepper-Pot
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posted 01 November 2006 02:58 PM      Profile for Pepper-Pot        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Top levels in CSIS appear to be smugly unapologetic.It shows the link/acceptance certain organizations in Canada have with renegade CIA tactics.Much like the Neo-Con links Harper & Co. display in federal military policy, and federal social AND economic policy.

An indication of deep integration... again and again and again and again.Dogmatic and ruthless worship of the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld Republicult.
American DEA, CIA and FBI agents are currently setting up shop in "our" Canada and have been doing so at a rapidly increasing rate recently.


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