Thirty nine people said to have 'disappeared' in US custody

[MiaCulpa]

"Six human rights groups released Wednesday a list of 39 people they believe have been secretly imprisoned by the United States and whose whereabouts are unknown and called on the Bush administration to abandon secret detentions," according to advance copy of an article being considered for the front page of Thursday's New York Times.


http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Thirty_nine_people_said_to_have_0606.html

[Greyskye]

1. we are the old Russia

Fresh Air on NPR this morning was talking about how our current 'enhanced interrogation' techniques came straight from the Russian cold-war play book. Stress positions, lack of sleep, constant light and sound, temperature extremes, waterboarding - all of it.

Of course we have disappeared people. It's on page 95.

"We have met the enemy, and he is us."

:cry:

[barbtries]

2. it is sickening

will anything be done? ever?

[LynnTheDem]

6. Yes. It's called "blowback".

And we ain't gonna like it much.

[ProudDad]

8. You can see some of the blowback at the G8 conference

in Germany...

[partylessinOhio]

3. Is Congress fearful they will all disappear?

I am thankful that I lived in the days of Camelot. I am sad for those that feel this is all there is.

[Double T]

4. Until this current regime is removed from power through impeachment or........

the ending of their term, no one on this earth is safe.

[undergroundpanther]

5. My neighbor dissapeared

Here is the story I wrote on Unknown of how he dissapeared .To this day I have no clue what happened to him.Maybe he is uncounted.

http://www.unknownnews.org/05D31-J06d-1231Panther.html

[msedano]

7. life imitating art

i reviewed a cuba-based novel this week about the victim of an argentine torturer getting his revenge. please, have a look. if you've a mind to read fiction, i recommend a couple of great titles related to disappearances and torturers,

http://labloga.blogspot.com/2007/06/review-tango-for-torturer-daniel.html

"Tango for a Torturer makes an excellent companion to other torture-themed works. I recommend reading Chavarria and two others, Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden and Lawrence Thornton’s Imagining Argentina. In Thornton’s book, a husband goes in search of his disappeared wife, in the process revealing horrors such as sexual torture and child-stealing. Dorfman’s brings a torture victim face to face with her torturer, a guest in her own home."

http://readraza.com/