Monday, December 05, 2005

Physically sick

There is something wrong if your gut is not churned by this

And it's a Grave Breach under the Geneva Conventions (Articles 50, 51, 130, 147, and the Additional Protocol l of 1977 (Art. 11 and Art. 85), specifically the ``unlawful deportation or transfer'' or ``unlawful confinement'' of protected persons.

What is it the American Terror Warriors do to commit these Grave Breaches? ``They picked up the wrong people'' then,

the Rendition Group follow[s] a simple but standard procedure: Dressed head to toe in black, including masks, they blindfold and cut the clothes off their new captives, then administer an enema and sleeping drugs. They outfit detainees in a diaper and jumpsuit for what can be a day-long trip. Their destinations: either a detention facility operated by cooperative countries in the Middle East and Central Asia, including Afghanistan, or one of the CIA's own covert prisons -- referred to in classified documents as "black sites," which at various times have been operated in eight countries, including several in Eastern Europe.

Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake: German Citizen Released After Months in 'Rendition'

Dana Priest, Washington Post; Sunday, December 4, 2005; Page A01
For Condoleezza Rice to claim this all ``saves lives'' is frankly monstrous. Maximum lives -- American as well as those of citizens of other countries who have had to endure this American savagery will be saved if the architects of these vile policies -- including Ms. Rice --stand before an international tribunal and are held responsible for these crimes.