[No one is more vulnerable than a citizen being pre-emptively struck by the Coalition of the Killing.]
It was, [ruling class], Lord Steyn, a senior law lord, [praise the lord?], steeped in the need to use words with care, who described the US treatment of its 600 Guantanamo Bay detainees, [prisoners], as "a monstrous failure of justice".
[Similarly the pre-emptive attacks, occupation and genocide on Afghanistan and Iraq by the Coalition of the Killing.]
Red Cross monitors who visited the detention camp last year described the interrogations there as "not quite torture, but as close as you can get".
[Yeah, the Red Cross like that painted on the British Flag hey? Sure they can tell you any damn lie that they like and people will believe them. Not quite torture hey because they weren't being tortured themselves they were just looking on with glee. Hey I'm glad that's not me?]
Yesterday it said the repeated abuses set out in a dossier compiled by lawyers of the "Tipton three", would amount to war crimes if proved true. The three were released from the camp in March after two years in US custody without access to lawyers.
The Britons allege repeated beatings, interrogation at gunpoint, sleep deprivation, humiliations including being forced to pose naked for photographs, and long hours on short shackles in painful squatting positions.
The British suspects were released just weeks before the US supreme court belatedly ruled that detainees, [prisoners], held at Guantanamo Bay must be given access to US courts. The dossier raises questions which not only US officials need to answer but British diplomats and military chiefs too.
The Foreign Office claimed no British detainees, [prisoners], had complained about their treatment but all three said they made either written or verbal complaints to British consular staff, who made several visits to the camp to, [allegedly], ensure the welfare of the nine British citizens held there.
The Ministry of Defence, [War], moved more quickly than the FO yesterday, promising to investigate an incident in which one of the men said he had been interrogated by a man identifying himself as an SAS officer while an American guard held a gun to his head. There are questions too for the security services with allegations that MI5 agents were involved in interrogations ignoring the conditions under which suspects were held.
The release of the dossier coincided with publication of a separate report yesterday on the UK's own "Guantanamo Law" - section four of the 2001 Anti-Terrorism, [Resource War], Crime and Security Act.
This allows foreign suspects, [scapegoats for the Coalition of the Killing], to be held here without charge or trial.
The parliamentary joint committee on human rights' report calls for the repeal of this section and points to its "corrosive effect on the culture of respect for human rights in Britain".
It endorses the recommendations of a special committee of privy counsellors, asked by, [war criminal], David Blunkett to review the act last year, which called for the internment provisions to be replaced "as a matter of urgency because they increase the risk of a miscarriage of justice".
Thanks to a sunset clause inserted by the Liberal Democrats into the 2001 act the home secretary has been forced to engage in a consultation exercise on what should happen after November, 2006, when the law must lapse or be renewed. Blunkett has already had to drop his plan to put terrorist suspects, [scapegoats and patsies for the Coalition of the Killing], on trial while reducing the standard of proof as well as a plan to hold pre-emptive trials with secret evidence heard before vetted counsels. Both the attorney general and director of public prosecutions opposed this ambition.
Two independent committees have now set out a serious alternative to internment - with more use of conventional criminal prosecution, relaxation of the ban on the use of intercept material; greater use of overt surveillance; and a wider use of civilian restriction orders.
The UK remains the only state in the 45-member Council of Europe to introduce detention without charge or trial. We had to opt out of the European convention on human rights to do so. A return to the fold - by a repeal of section four - is long overdue.
By Just Us posted 6 August 04
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