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[arizona1]

Well, Alex...they were brown people so in winger-world, they're not really considered human.

[tinner]

You think that happens in our great christian nation?

In fact, since 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency has captured some three thousand people who have been ferried around the world in a fleet of special planes, to be ‘rendered’.




According to Der Spiegel, there have been 437 CIA flights which have either landed in Germany or crossed German air space. The French are aware of two jets which carried prisoners to Guantánamo. In Britain, 210 flights are alleged to have used British airports. And in Portugal there have been reported 34 such landings. Ten CIA flights are alleged to have touched down at Tenerife and Majorca, whilst 67 flights have, it is claimed, landed in Iceland since the year 2001. In Italy there have been 17 secret flights by the CIA which landed there between July 2002 and May 2005, if we are to believe Corriere della Sera. Plane spotters have been monitoring some of this bizarre tourist trade. Their web pages have listed some of the movements of the flights of a Gulfstream V, one of the CIA’s planes, which is recorded as having landed at Jakarta’s military airport and taken away Muhammad Saad Iqbal Madni, suspected of working for al Qaeda, to interrogation in Egypt. The plane spotters’ lists track the Gulfstream V to Islamabad, Karachi, Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Tashkent in Uzbekistan, Baghdad, Kuwait City, Baku in Azerbaijan, and Rabat in Morocco. The same plane has landed often at Dulles International Airport in the United States, at Jordan’s military airport in Amman, and at airports in Frankfurt, Glasgow and Larnaca.

[arizona1]

Inhofe: ‘There has never been a case of torture’ at Guantanamo Bay.

Yesterday, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) held a town hall meeting with his constituents in Grove, Oklahoma, where he unleashed a tirade of hyperbolic remarks against Obama administration policies. At one point he even suggested that Obama is “obsessed” with releasing terrorists into the United States, and claimed that there has “never been a case of torture” at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp:

He is also alarmed, he said, by the proposed closing of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Obama administration wants to shutter the camp because of its association with torture.

Inhofe said: “There has never been a case of torture there. The people there are treated better than in the federal prisons.”

He continued, “I don’t know why President Obama is obsessed with turning terrorists loose in America.”

As the Center for Constitutional Rights has documented, there have been countless cases of detainees being abused and tortured at the prison camp. Detainees have been beaten, deprived of sleep for weeks, sexually harrassed, and shackled to the floor for days at a time. Inhofe’s statement at the town hall is only the latest in his political broadsides. He has in the past suggested that Obama is “un-American,” that the mentality of Middle Easterners is “worse than Nazism,” and that the conditions at Guantanamo Bay are humane.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/03/inhofe-gitmo-torture/