The [Bush Administration] is due to appear before the UN Committee on Torture for the first time since launching its war on terror following the 9/11 attacks.
Thirty senior officials from the departments of state, defence, justice and homeland security will testify in public at the hearing in Geneva.
They are likely to face tough questions about practices used in the US' anti-terror drive, correspondents say.
Rights groups accuse the US of flouting the UN Convention against Torture.
They accuse the [Bush Administration] of allowing the torture and inhumane treatment of foreign terror suspects at their detention centres in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere [allowing? "allowing"?? did the 9/11 hijackers "allow" their planes to fly into the twin towers? Bush Admin isn't "allowing" torture, it is paying for, facilitating, organizing, orchestraing, deliberate, pre-medidated shipping En Masse of 'accused' terrorist 'suspects' to regimes they KNOW will torture, regimes where they WANT torture carried out, where they know they can COUNT on it if they 'ship' the 'alleged' terrorist 'suspects' to the right brutal 'interrogation' (another euphemism) thugs -ED]
'Huge significance'
This is the first time since 2000 that the US has testified publicly before the committee, which, as a signatory to the UN Convention against Torture, it is required to do.
Ten legal experts will cross-examine the US team, led by state department legal adviser John Bellinger in public hearings that are due to continue until Monday.
The hearings have huge significance, says Jennifer Daskal of Human Rights Watch.
"What makes this so remarkable is that this is the first time the United States is accountable for its record on torture with regard to some of the practices implemented after 9/11," she says.
Names and numbers
The committee will want to know about alleged CIA secret prisons and the prisoners no-one has access to, the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says.
According to a UN document, the committee will demand to know the number and nationalities of those being held.
It will also ask for details of those taken abroad to third countries, in a process known [euphemistically] as "extraordinary rendition"
They may ask about the precise measures the US has taken in the wake of the abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison to ensure it does not happen again.
More awkward still, they may want to know if there has been an independent inquiry into the possibility that high-ranking government officials authorised torture, our correspondent adds.
The US has insisted it is "unequivocally opposed" to torture and remains committed to the UN ban.
The UN committee does not have formal powers and cannot impose sanctions, but signatories are expected to act on the recommendations it will publish following the hearings.
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Morton Davis
2006-05-04 22:20:44 EST
<*o@economicdemocracy.org> wrote in message news:1146792774.961612.198280@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com... The [Bush Administration] is due to appear before the UN Committee on Torture for the first time since launching its war on terror following the 9/11 attacks.
Have you got a fucking original idea in your head or are you a fuvcking parrot spouting you master's words?
Stan De SD
2006-05-04 22:42:59 EST
"Morton Davis" <antikerry@go.com> wrote in message news:0Ey6g.716130$084.694146@attbi_s22... > > <info@economicdemocracy.org> wrote in message > news:1146792774.961612.198280@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com... > The [Bush Administration] is due to appear before the UN Committee on > Torture for the first time since launching its war on terror following > the 9/11 attacks. > > Have you got a fucking original idea in your head or are you a fuvcking > parrot spouting you master's words?
(b) Parrot.
AmerGovtCriminalsExposer
2006-05-05 01:38:22 EST
"Morton Davis" <antikerry@go.com> wrote in message news:0Ey6g.716130$084.694146@attbi_s22... > > <info@economicdemocracy.org> wrote in message > news:1146792774.961612.198280@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com... > The [Bush Administration] is due to appear before the UN Committee on > Torture for the first time since launching its war on terror following > the 9/11 attacks. > > Have you got a fucking original idea in your head or are you a fuvcking > parrot spouting you master's words? >
We do.
We want to attack Iran and murder another 100.000 human beings. My blood lust in iraq is not satisfied yet.
Yours lovingly, george bush jr, rumsfeld, cheney
AmerGovtCriminalsExposer
2006-05-05 02:16:38 EST
"Stan de SD" <standesd_DIGA_NO_A_SPAM@covad.net> wrote in message news:62a80$445abb93$45035f0d$10774@msgid.meganewsservers.com... > > "Morton Davis" <antikerry@go.com> wrote in message > news:0Ey6g.716130$084.694146@attbi_s22... >> >> <info@economicdemocracy.org> wrote in message >> news:1146792774.961612.198280@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com... >> The [Bush Administration] is due to appear before the UN Committee on >> Torture for the first time since launching its war on terror following >> the 9/11 attacks. >> >> Have you got a fucking original idea in your head or are you a fuvcking >> parrot spouting you master's words? > > (b) Parrot. >
You are a low IQ bush dicksucker.
Kirtland
2006-05-05 03:11:39 EST
On 4 May 2006 18:32:55 -0700, info@economicdemocracy.org wrote:
Not to worry. When the UN makes a resolution the US will simply veto it and it will disappear into the "memory hole". Like the hundreds before it.
> > <info@economicdemocracy.org> wrote in message > news:1146792774.961612.198280@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com... > The [Bush Administration] is due to appear before the UN Committee on > Torture for the first time since launching its war on terror following > the 9/11 attacks. > > Have you got a fucking original idea in your head or are you a fuvcking > parrot spouting you master's words?
Arguing with the facts again, Moron Davis?
Moron, did they run you out of the talk.politics.guns group because they said they needed to do a fumigation, and they at least wanted a period of time before you re-infested it again?
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Morton Davis
2006-05-05 08:09:59 EST
"AmerGovtCriminalsExposer" <AmerGovtCriminalsExposer@americangovt.org> wrote in message news:445ae48d$0$14907$a8266bb1@reader.corenews.com... > > "Morton Davis" <antikerry@go.com> wrote in message > news:0Ey6g.716130$084.694146@attbi_s22... > > > > <info@economicdemocracy.org> wrote in message > > news:1146792774.961612.198280@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com... > > The [Bush Administration] is due to appear before the UN Committee on > > Torture for the first time since launching its war on terror following > > the 9/11 attacks. > > > > Have you got a fucking original idea in your head or are you a fuvcking > > parrot spouting you master's words? > > > > We do. > > We want to attack Iran and murder another 100.000 human beings. My blood > lust in iraq is not satisfied yet. > > FUCK YOU
AmerGovtCriminalsExposer
2006-05-05 14:27:06 EST
"Morton Davis" <antikerry@go.com> wrote in message news:rgH6g.716763$084.303303@attbi_s22... > > "AmerGovtCriminalsExposer" <AmerGovtCriminalsExposer@americangovt.org> > wrote > in message news:445ae48d$0$14907$a8266bb1@reader.corenews.com... >> >> "Morton Davis" <antikerry@go.com> wrote in message >> news:0Ey6g.716130$084.694146@attbi_s22... >> > >> > <info@economicdemocracy.org> wrote in message >> > news:1146792774.961612.198280@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com... >> > The [Bush Administration] is due to appear before the UN Committee on >> > Torture for the first time since launching its war on terror following >> > the 9/11 attacks. >> > >> > Have you got a fucking original idea in your head or are you a fuvcking >> > parrot spouting you master's words? >> > >> >> We do. >> >> We want to attack Iran and murder another 100.000 human beings. My blood >> lust in iraq is not satisfied yet. >> >> > FUCK YOU >
You are a christain right wing STINKY TERRORIST with a compulsive obsession of sucking bush and cheneys dicks. FUCK OFF and go take a shower. You are STINKING UP PLANET EARTH.