Ex-Liberian leader's son faces U.S. torture charges in Miami

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-ctorture07dec07,0,6975927.story?coll=sfla-news-broward

Federal officials announced unprecedented charges Wednesday against the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor for allegedly torturing a prisoner as head of his father's violent security force.

The three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Miami accuses Charles McArthur Emmanuel, a 29-year-old U.S. citizen, of burning his victim's flesh with a hot iron, forcing the victim at gunpoint to hold scalding water and shocking the victim's genitalia. snip

Some legal experts said the new charges could raise awkward questions about U.S. treatment of detainees in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and in secret CIA-run prisons.

"It's a positive sign from this administration, but a strange one when viewed in comparison with their stance on torture in other contexts," said Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Miami.

[bullimiami]

1. good. charge all of them that torture and all of them that send the torturers.

[David Zephyr]

2. Pat Robertson and Charles Taylor have something in common: GOLD!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A7124-2001Sep21

http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/rr/blrr_rob_taylor.htm