[Marxism] A systematic plan of torture under Bush

[Nasir Khan]

Spanish Investigation Reveals ‘An Approved Systematic Plan of Torture’
Under Bush

While Obama and the US Congress refuse to hold Bush-era torturers
accountable, a Spanish judge fights for accountability and uncovers
more US atrocities.

By Jeremy Scahill | RebelReports, May 18, 2009

On Friday, I wrote a piece for AlterNet on how the Obama
administration is continuing to use a notorious military police unit
at Guantanamo that regularly brutalizes unarmed prisoners, despite
Obama’s pledge to uphold the Geneva Convention. This force officially
known as the Immediate Reaction Force (IRF) has been labelled the
“Extreme Repression Force” by Gitmo prisoners. Its members were also
characterized as the “Black Shirts of Guantanamo” by human rights
lawyer Michael Ratner. The IRF force is “an extrajudicial terror squad
that has regularly brutalized prisoners outside of the interrogation
room, gang beating them, forcing their heads into toilets, breaking
bones, gouging their eyes, squeezing their testicles, urinating on a
prisoner’s head, banging their heads on concrete floors and hog-tying
them — sometimes leaving prisoners tied in excruciating positions for
hours on end.”

Full article: http://sudhan.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/spanish-investigation-reveals-an-approved-systematic-plan-of-torture-under-bush/