CIA has 11 Al-Qaida suspects in Jordan facility

[DuctapeFatwa]

The Central Intelligence Agency runs a top secret interrogation facility in Jordan, where at least 11 detainees who are considered Al-Qaida's most senior cadre are being held, Haaretz has learned from international intelligence sources.

Since the war in Afghanistan ended three years ago, reports spoke of these special detainees being held outside the United States, but no location was mentioned. A report on these prisoners issued Tuesday by the Human Rights Watch organization claims they are being held somewhere so secret that U.S. President George Bush asked the CIA heads not to report it to him.

It is not known where precisely in the Hashemite kingdom they are being held, but they are thought to be at a secret facility belonging to Jordanian intelligence or at a secret base. Their detention outside the U.S. enables CIA interrogators to apply interrogation methods that are banned by U.S. law, and to do so in a country where cooperation with the Americans is particularly close, thereby reducing the danger of leaks.

According to the Human Rights Watch report, the CIA was granted special permission by the U.S. law enforcement authorities to operate "other laws" at the secret facility with regard to interrogation methods....

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/488039.html

[aquart]

1. Are these the ones who disappeared?

They're gonna be real friendly if they ever get out.

Anybody full of doubt that they'll ever get out?

[RainDog]

2. haaretz says their source is involved in the interrogations

from the article-

"The 46-page Human Rights Watch report levels harsh criticism at the U.S. administration for using "undisclosed locations" and "disappearing" prisoners. The report charges that the U.S. thereby is in breach of all international conventions, including the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war, by refusing prisoners access to the Red Cross or their families."

"The report contends that American operatives detained Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's children to serve as "hostages" through which to pressure their father into cooperating."

"The prisoners were subjected to severe torture, the report states."

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no doubt these people (but not their children) are enemies of the United States. does that, therefore, mean that we should turn our backs on human rights agreements?

Bush has done more to turn more people against this nation, by these actions, than any terrorist cell could do.

how sadistic do you need to be to protect your nation?

[Demonaut]

3. no comment...............................