Saturday, February 25, 2006

Another Name to the List

Abu Ghraib
Guantanamo
Bagram

Let's add Bagram to the list of places that will be infamously remembered by the world. After the torture at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, and even the shameless acknowledgement by the head of the US Central Command that hunger-striker detainees in Guantanamo Bay were being "indulged to the point that [when they were being force-fed] they had been allowed to choose the color of their feeding tubes" Right, I can picture the scene:

the government has now decided to keep abuses away from home. The solution? Forget Guantanamo, keep them somewhere else where no one can see them or hear about them, it seems like Cuba was still too close, so Bagram prison in Afghanistan seemed like a perfect place.
As one of the officials pointed out in the article I link to above: "Out of Sight, Out of Mind".
Shame.

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