Posted on 02/12/2006 7:27:29 PM PST by jmc1969
A United Nations inquiry has called for the immediate closure of America's Guantanamo Bay detention centre and the prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are accused of torturing detainees.
The UN Human Rights Commission report, due to be published this week, concludes that Washington should put the 520 detainees on trial or release them.
It calls for the United States to halt all "practices amounting to torture", including the force-feeding of inmates who go on hunger strike.
The report wants the Bush administration to ensure that all allegations of torture are investigated by US criminal courts, and that "all perpetrators up to the highest level of military and political command are brought to justice".
It does not specify who it means by "political command" but logically this would include President George W Bush.
The demands are contained in the final report of the commission's working group on arbitrary detention, which will be presented at its Geneva headquarters in the next few days. A copy of the report has been obtained exclusively by The Daily Telegraph.
The report is bound to intensify the already strained relations between the US and the UN over the Iraq war.
Washington officials yesterday denounced it as "a hatchet job" when informed of the contents by this newspaper.
"This shows precisely what is wrong with the United Nations today," said a senior official. "These people are supposed to be undertaking a serious investigation of the facts relating to Guantanamo.
"Instead, they deliver a report with a bunch of old allegations from lawyers representing released detainees that are so generalised that you cannot even tell what they are talking about.
"When the UN produces an unprofessional hatchet job like this it discredits the whole organisation."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Dear UN: Stuff it.
Note to the U.N.. Thanks for your input, now GO AWAY! Have a nice day.
The UN has no credibility to demand anything from the United States.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
The only Cuban jail the UN is worried about is the only one run by Americans.
GUFFAW.......The TERRORIST PROTECTION SOCIETY of the UN is demanding what????
Best observation of the day. This should be Sec. Rice's response.
Best observation of the day. This should be Sec. Rice's response.
Excellently put. Impossible to better.
My inquirie demand the immediate closure of the U.N.
So even as they condemn us for committing horrible crimes of torture, they admit we aren't really torturing anyone by any generally accepted, reasonable standard. We're just doing things the UN wants to believe amounts to torture if you put the right spin on it.
To the UN, "STFU!"
Find the oil money, prosecute the guilt ones and then see us about closing all the prisons in Cuba.
How long do we have to put up with this group of courtesans???
Get the hell out of the UN and the UN the hell out of the US. Toothless tiger.
That's a start. Why do I think this has to do with us cracking down on Iran? Disolve the UN ASAP!
Hey, we're just doing it for the Foie Gras.
The UN.
LOL!
SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV, Part I,act III, scene i, lines 53–55.
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