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craigmurray Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be raped with broken bottles The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ...
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(AP) 1 day ago WASHINGTON The government has
agreed to pay $3 million to a former agent...
of the Drug Enforcement Administration who sued CIA officers for illegal eavesdropping. The proposed settlement followed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Royce ...
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The Associated Press: Government agrees to pay $3 ...
foxnews.com - 24 days ago
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 The U.S. expressed "disappointment"
over the kidnapping convictions of 23 Americans, Reuters reported....
"We are disappointed by the verdicts against the Americans and Italians charged in Milan for their alleged involvement ...
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U.S. Expresses 'Disappointment' Over Italian Court's ...
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Reason Morning Links: UN Pulls Staff From Afghanistan, American Officials Convicted in Italy, Cash for Clunkers Post-Mortem
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... Speaking of rendition, former U.K. ambassador says CIA sent
suspects to Uzbekistan to be "raped
with broken bottles," among other atrocities. ...
Dick the Impaler
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... It's not that there is no evidence of the Bush Administration's capital crimes, not at all. We have imprisoned and tortured many people with essentially no evidence against them, but there has been a constant flow of increasingly horrible information about kidnapping and the kind of torture even Limbaugh or Dick the Impaler himself couldn't pass off as a frat-boy prank. Crain Murray, the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan now tells us, says Raw Story, that the people the CIA sent to secret dungeons there were raped with broken bottles and/or boiled alive ...
The Evil Empire
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... all up. He saw the documents that proved that the motivation for US and UK military aggression in Afghanistan had to do with the natural gas deposits in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The Americans wanted a pipeline that bypassed Russia and Iran and went through Afghanistan. To insure this, an invasion was necessary. The idiot American public could be told that the invasion was necessary because of 9/11 and to save them from "terrorism," and the utter fools would believe the lie." If you look at the deployment of US forces in Afghanistan , as against other NATO country ...
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