[Politics] Red Cross Report on Guantanamo: More coldblooded than Abu Ghraib

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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More coldblooded than Abu Ghraib

An international law expert explains why the new Red Cross
report on the Guantanamo prison camp is more disturbing than the
U.S.-operated torture chambers in Baghdad.


By Eric Boehlert
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/12/01/redcross/index.html

Dec. 1, 2004  |  A confidential Red Cross report detailing
interrogation techniques "tantamount to torture" at the United
States-run prisoner camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, offers the
latest evidence that the Bush administration is systematically
flouting international law as it battles the war on terrorism,
says one legal expert. "All of this looks pretty clearly like a
deliberate policy to create prisons at which all kinds of
interrogation techniques can be used and remain unfettered by
law," says Leila Sadat, law professor at Washington University
in St. Louis and vice-president of the American branch of the
International Law Association.

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