Rhetoric and the Record on Torture (LTTE/WP)

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Regarding the assertion by White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales that, consistent with its obligations under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the United States does not expel individuals to countries where the United States believes it is likely that they will be tortured:

On Oct. 7 or 8, 2002, U.S. officials deported Canadian citizen Maher Arar to Syria during a stopover in New York, while he was on his way back to Canada from Tunisia.

Syria is known to use torture in its prisons, so it shouldn't have surprised anyone, least of all the U.S. officials who sent him to Syria, that Mr. Arar said he was tortured repeatedly during his 375-day stay in a Syrian jail. <name>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20957-2004Oct9.html

[Southpaw Bookworm]

1. Poor Mr. Ormond

Hope he doesn't have to enter the U.S. anytime soon, or you can bet John Asskkkroft will be putting him on a one-way plane to Israel and a pow-wow with the Mossad.