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O CIA usa Jordão para a tortura dos detidos
Segunda-feira, dezembro 10o, 2007
Um dos países que foi usado o mais freqüentemente pelo CIA para detidos torturando é um aliado de Jordão, E.U. da chave em o Oriente Médio. Por Joe Kay O revelation que o CIA organizou a destruição das videocassettes que documentam a interrogação dos prisioneiros em facilidades secretas do detention do CIA no exterior focalizou a atenção em um aspecto do programa da tortura dos E.U. Um outro componente importante é a política de? rendition extraordinário?? transferência dos prisioneiros ao controle de outros países que se especializam na tortura. Um dos países que foi usado o mais freqüentemente pelo CIA nesta maneira é um aliado de Jordão, E.U. da chave em o Oriente Médio. Um artigo no borne de Washington publicado em sábado (? Jordão? agência do espião de s: Prendendo a pilha para o CIA? por originais de Craig Whitlock) o relacionamento próximo que se tornou sobre os sete anos passados. De acordo com o borne? O departamento geral da inteligência, ou GID, são talvez o CIA? s a maioria de sócio confiado no mundo árabe. A agência Jordanian recebeu o dinheiro, o treinamento e o equipamento do CIA por décadas e tem mesmo um Web site English-language público? os relatórios do jornal. ? O relacionamento aprofundou-se em anos recentes, com os oficiais dos E.U. que elogiam suas contrapartes Jordanian para a profundidade de seu conhecimento a respeito do al-Qaeda e de outras redes Islamic.? Apesar das negações oficiais, entretanto, o benefício principal do estado de Jordão é que tortura? e com abandono. O borne anota na língua caracterìstica suavizada que o GID era? atrativo para uma outra razão?: ? Seus interrogators tiveram uma reputação para persuadir suspeitos apertado-lipped falar, mesmo se aquele significasse usando as táticas abusive que poderiam violate E.U. ou a lei internacional.? Um dos prisioneiros que foi sujeito a este fate é al-Haj Addu Ali Sharqawi, um prisioneiro originalmente de Yemen. Sharqawi foi capturado em Paquistão em fevereiro 2002, transferiu a Jordão, transferido a um undisclosed CIA-funcione a prisão 19 meses mais tarde, e transferido eventualmente a Guant? namo em fevereiro 2004. Durante todo este período, não foi carregado nunca com um crime, e há pouco prospeto que em qualquer altura que logo. The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case earlier this week that will determine whether prisoners at Guant?namo Bay have the right to challenge their detention in US courts. Sharqawi describes his ordeal in a written document that was obtained by the Post: ?I was kidnapped, not knowing anything of my fate, with continuous torture and interrogation for the whole of two years. When I told them the truth, I was tortured and beaten.? The Post does not indicate why Sharqawi was originally arrested. The newspaper writes, however, ?He was threatened with sexual abuse and electrocution while in Jordan. He also said he was hidden from officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross during their visits to inspect Jordanian prisons.? Jordan has become notorious for torturing prisoners captured by the government that represent a threat to its interests. ?Former prisoners have reported that their captors were expert in two practices in particular: falaqa, or beating suspects on the soles of their feet with a truncheon and then, often forcing them to walk barefoot and bloodied across a salt-covered floor; and farruj, or the ?grilled chicken,? in which prisoners are handcuffed behind their legs, hung upside down by a rod placed between their knees, and beaten.? In July 2006, Amnesty International issued a report noting the ?systematic torture of political suspects? in Jordan. The report documented the cases of dozens of individuals tortured in Jordan, among whom were 10 believed to have been sent to Jordan by the United States. Malcolm Smart, director of Amnesty International?s Middle East and North Africa Programme, described the cooperation of the US and Jordan as follows: ?Jordan appears to be a central hub in a global complex of secret detention centers operated by the US in coordination with foreign intelligence agencies. It is into this complex that suspects ?disappear??and are held for interrogation indefinitely, outside any legal or administrative process.? The tapes destroyed by the CIA documented only a small component of a network of prisons and interrogations facilities set up by the US government and its allies. Most of the abuse is never recorded in the first place. The full Washington Post article can be found here The Amnesty International report can be found here Have Your Say: CIA uses Jordan for torture of detainees Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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