Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] nostalgic for the gulag, sort of [political]

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 11/2/05, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Jonathan King wrote:
>
> > Needless to say, the following story comes as somewhat of a surprise.
> >
> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644_pf.html
>
> There have been quite a few stories about this *kind* of thing - whisking
> someone off to some site in the middle east for "questioning," including
> torture by some foreign group.  But I guess it's news that they were doing
> it in so many places.  What else is new about the story?  (Seriously, I
> don't know.)

Read the first sentence:

# The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important
al Qaeda captives
# at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and
foreign officials
# familiar with the arrangement.

We are re-using the good old Soviet-built gulag in Eastern Europe
itself to do our dirty work.
Just like we re-used Saddam's torture prison to torture Iraqis.  I
guess we want to make sure that our victims "get it" or something.

jking

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