An American journalist has exposed the United States administrationâ„¢s descent into never-ending wars across the world in his new book.
The investigative journalist, Jeremy, Scahill told a ceremony unveiling his book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield in London that Washington resumed its support for militants in Somalia in 2006 by supplying money and military equipment to them.
The 38-year-old reporter added that the US runs secret prisons in the African country to lock up dissidents.
In a document revealed by Russian news agency RIA Novosti on October 19, 2012, Russiaâ„¢s Foreign Ministry noted that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was running prisons in Poland, Iraq, Afghanistan, Morocco, Thailand, Lithuania and Romania.
The report denounced the US for its dismal human rights record, citing molestation of children, invasion of privacy, brutality of police and restrictions on the freedom of expression.
Former US president George Bush, together with a number of other high-ranking US officials, approved the establishment of secret prisons in foreign lands, as early as 2002, by its key spy agency in efforts to carry out harsh interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding, to extract information from what they introduced as Ëœterror suspectsâ„¢.
The establishment of such interrogation facilities in foreign, allied nations by the US administration was to avert accountability in the American legal system, since torture is specifically banned by the US Constitution.
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This article originally appeared on: Press TV