Island paradise or torture chamber?

While the news is hardly shocking, I was rather shocked that it was on the front page of a major North American newspaper.

The Toronto Star is great.

But of course this information will probably lead to nothing, yay world!

From satellite pictures, Diego Garcia looks like paradise.

The small, secluded atoll in the Indian Ocean, with its coral beaches, turquoise waters and vast lagoon in the centre, is 1,600 kilometres from land in any direction.

A perfect hideaway. But no one is allowed to set foot on it.

The little-known British possession, leased to the United States in 1970, was a major military staging post in the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. It continues to be, in effect, a floating aircraft carrier, housing 1,700 personnel who call it Camp Justice.

But intelligence analysts say Diego Garcia’s geographic isolation is now being exploited for other, darker purposes.

They claim it is one in a network of secret detention centres being operated by the Central Intelligence Agency to interrogate high-value terrorist suspects beyond the reach of American or international law.

These prisoners are known as “ghost detainees” or the “new disappeared,” and they’re being subjected to treatment that makes the abuses at the military-run Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad and Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba look small-time, say intelligence analysts.

Last year, Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert Mueller said CIA interrogation techniques “violate all American anti-torture laws,” and instructed FBI agents to step outside of the room…

Posted by Memnoch01
Was born in a small village in the Cambodian jungle in 78. Spent childhood learning the arms and drugs trade along the Mekong river. Formative years were spent securing the lucrative Laos/Cambodia Mekong border area. And currently I am in Inner Mongolia...