No integrity to be found in our press. If the United States doesn’t smooth things over (albeit an admission of error when none is probable and an apology is entirely the wrong way to go about it) and this spills into Xinjiang, China will have an excuse to push the Hizbut Tehrir/Uighurs back through Afghanistan into the Indian Ocean. #msg-6351646
Bush can’t afford to lose Afghanistan and Pakistan. There go his dreams of controlling the new ‘silk road'.
They are not saying that much, they must be stunned!
Just as 9/11 was seen as a great opportunity, our Pearl Harbor, if this goes any further it will be China’s Pearl Harbor.
Following is a list of what has been alleged committed by US personnel. It does not claim to beexhaustive:
I believe most of the behaviors in this list have been proven authentic through photographs, witnesses and courts of law. Given the magnitude of our previously proven crimes the burden of proof that no disrespect took place is on us. Thus within context the Muslims know that an extreme disrespect for the Koran did take place.
The list includes religious intolerance, disrespect for the Koran. -Am
• Abduction• Death threats• Dietary manipulation• Dogs used to threaten and intimidate• Dousing in cold water• Electric shocks, threats of electric shocks• Excessive and cruel use of shackles and handcuffs, including "short shackling"• Excessive or humiliating use of strip searches• Exposure to weather and temperature extremes• "False flag", i.e. making a detainee think his interrogators are not US agents• Forced shaving, i.e. of head, body or facial hair• Forcible injections• Forced physical exercise• Hooding and blindfolding• Humiliation, e.g. forced crawling, forced to make animal noises, etc.• Immersion in water to induce perception of drowning• Incommunicado detention• Induced perception of suffocation or asyphxiation• Isolation for prolonged periods, e.g. months or more than a year• Light deprivation• Loud music, noise, yelling• Photography as humiliation• Physical assault, e.g. beating, punching, kicking• Prolonged interrogations, e.g. 20 hours• Racial and religious taunts, humiliation• Religious intolerance, e.g. disrespect for Koran, religious rituals• Secret detention• Sensory deprivation• Sexual humiliation• Sexual assault• Sleep adjustment• Sleep deprivation• Stress positions, e.g. prolonged forced kneeling and standing• Stripping• Strobe lighting• Threats of reprisals against relatives• Threat of transfer to third country to inspire fear of torture or death• Threat of transfer to Guantánamo• Threats of torture or ill-treatment• Twenty-four hour lighting• Withdrawal of "comfort items"• Withholding of medication• Withholding of food and water• Withholding of toilet facilities, leading to defecation and urination in clothing