Just to think that I was recently told on an Austrian thread that I was insane to compare what ISIS does to what the USA had done in both Iraq and Afghanistan - not sure about the beheadings but cutting throats deep enough so that the head is barely attached is close enough in my book!!!! Dont know whether to laugh or cry department: Yes, ISIS, which has already stood proud behind beheadings, amputations, crucifixions, mass executions, and other particularly grim and brutal methods of destroying the human body, turns out to have waterboarded some of its prisoners, including the since-executed journalist James Foley. And according to the Washington Post, they appeared to model the technique on the CIA’s use of waterboarding to interrogate suspected terrorists after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Its good to know that, despite those destroyed video tapes of CIA waterboarding, the Agency had something to teach other barbarians on this planet. And the militants of ISIS didnt even need the redacted and embattled Senate Torture Report to learn the necessary lessons. Tom Critics of waterboarding have said for years that the practice endangered Americans, putting them at risk of being subjected to the same brutal treatment at the hands of the enemy. “Waterboarding dates to the Spanish Inquisition and has been a favorite of dictators through the ages, including Pol Pot and the regime in Burma, Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) said in an op-ed in 2008. Condoning torture opens the door for our enemies to do the same to captured American troops in the future” French journalist Didier François, who was imprisoned with Foley, has told reporters that Foley was targeted for extra abuse because his captors found pictures on his computer of his brother, who serves in the U.S. Air Force. François said Foley was subjected to mock executions — something suspected al-Qaeda operative Nashiri also endured while being held in a secret CIA prison, according to a report by the inspector general of the CIA. The Justice Department did not sanction mock executions. washingtonpost/world/national-security/captives-held-by-islamic-state-were-waterboarded/2014/08/28/2b4e1962-2ec9-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html Like
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 05:08:55 +0000