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To: Thomas M. who wrote (6976)6/10/2004 3:55:57 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20039
 
Told you so....(*)

Rumsfeld 'told officers to take gloves off with Lindh'

By Andrew Buncombe in Washington and Anne Penketh

10 June 2004


John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban, was stripped naked and tied to a stretcher during interrogation after the office of Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered intelligence officers to "take the gloves off" when questioning him.

Mr Rumsfeld's legal counsel instructed the officers to push the limits when questioning Lindh, captured in Afghanistan with Taliban and al-Qa'ida forces in late 2001. The treatment of Lindh appears to foreshadow the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
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news.independent.co.uk

Not only does "the treatment of Lindh appear to foreshadow the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib," it also forebodes the abuse of US citizens at US penitentiaries as part of your Orwellian war against terrorists....

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