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Cpl_Kendall


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Pakistani authorities have illegally sent hundreds of Pakistanis and foreigners to prisons or handed them to the United States for money, said a report released Friday by Amnesty International.

"Bounty hunters, including police officers and local people, have captured individuals of different nationalities, often apparently at random, and sold them into U.S. custody," said Claudio Cordone, the senior director of research at the human rights organization.

The report is based on a number of interviews with former detainees, including citizens from Bahrain, Australia, Britain, Ethiopia and Sweden, who say they were illegally abducted while in Pakistan and handed over to American authorities.

Offered up to $5,000 US a suspect

Fuelled by American offers of up to $5,000 US for suspects, they were sent to the U.S. naval prison in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the U.S. Bagram air base in Afghanistan or secret detention centres run by the U.S. but based in other countries.

"People held in Pakistan for alleged links to al-Qaeda or the Taliban have been arrested and detained without reference to national or international human rights law," says the report.

"Custodial safeguards have been blatantly ignored and the protection of law has been routinely denied."

In a statement, Amnesty said such detainees also are at "risk of torture and unlawful transfer to third countries."

The group did not specify how many detainees had been arrested by Pakistan, or say how many it believed were innocent.

Road to Guantanamo 'starts in Pakistan'

The Amnesty allegations follow the revelation by the country's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, in his memoir In The Line of Fire that Pakistan had captured 689 al-Qaeda terror suspects, and turned over 369 to Washington.

"We have earned bounties totalling millions of dollars," said Musharraf, who is in London after spending part of the week in North America, where he met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Canada and U.S. President George W. Bush as well as promoting his book.

"The road to Guantanamo very literally starts in Pakistan," said Amnesty's Cordone.

Pakistani officials haven't commented on the report, which recommends the country end the alleged practices.

"While recognizing that some of the human rights violations perpetrated in the context of the 'war on terror' may have been carried out at the behest of U.S. officials, as a sovereign state Pakistan bears full responsibility for all human rights violations committed on its territory and with its knowledge and consent," the report says.

Well we knew the Northern Alliance faction in Afghanistan did this to "Taliban" suspects several years ago so I'm not surprised that Pakistan is doing the same thing.

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Every day the WOT gets worse. Its only a matter of time before things collaspe.

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Every day the WOT gets worse. Its only a matter of time before things collaspe.


I think they've built their "war" on a house of cards. Sooner or later people are going to get tired of the bull****. Personally I think this has the potential to destroy the US Republic as it exists today. It's just scandel after scandel.


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I wouldn't say destroy it... no some other corrupt ******* will seize power, accomplish some of the goals to keep the plebes happy, and the system will keep chugging right along.

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I wouldn't say destroy it... no some other corrupt ******* will seize power, accomplish some of the goals to keep the plebes happy, and the system will keep chugging right along.


Have you seen this? It's now legal to torture US citizens, looks to me like the Republic is crumbling.

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TheMuffinKing wrote:

I wouldn't say destroy it... no some other corrupt ******* will seize power, accomplish some of the goals to keep the plebes happy, and the system will keep chugging right along.


Have you seen this? It's now legal to torture US citizens, looks to me like the Republic is crumbling.


Its official now. Bush is a dictator.

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The sad thing is that at least 30% of Americans think he is doing a swell job. I think he could kick a puppy on live tv or eat a baby and his popularity with his base wouldn't drop. If I was an American I'd be fleeing to Canada right now, in fact I'd work at fraking McDicks if I had to to escape.

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Cpl_Kendall wrote:

The sad thing is that at least 30% of Americans think he is doing a swell job. I think he could kick a puppy on live tv or eat a baby and his popularity with his base wouldn't drop. If I was an American I'd be fleeing to Canada right now, in fact I'd work at fraking McDicks if I had to to escape.


Good thing I live near the border of Canada.

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My sister-in-law lives in Boston with her husband, their both Canadian and I keep asking them how they can stand the stupid. She wants to move back but he wants to get his citizenship.

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Not in my opinion. The republic will crumble when armed conflicts occur between the states. A civil war might destroy the union, an imcompetant president at this stage will not.

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Bush will solidify his dictatorial position by remaining in power indefinately. When this happens I'm moving to Mexico.

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Not in my opinion. The republic will crumble when armed conflicts occur between the states. A civil war might destroy the union, an imcompetant president at this stage will not.


Oh he's not just incompetant, he's purposefully evil. I mean for fraks sake they just made it legal to detain and try American citizens in military tribunals without civilian oversight. Their ****ting all over the Constitution and the opposition isn't trying to stop them. What you've got now is some gross parody of America, the fact that the average American isn't rioting in the streets over this is a testiment to how ignorant the public really is. Remember that famous poem?:

First they cam for the Socialists, and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Socialist.

Then the came for the Trade Unionists, and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me, and there was no one left
to speak up for me.

The same thing is happening in America but with terrorism.



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I won't argue that he's evil. I'm really pissed with the way this "war" is being prosecuted. In no blunt terms: I'm dissastisfied with our president, I'm sorry Nader didn't win (I voted for him).
The only way I see this country dissolving as a union would be through some sort of theologically based civil war. I also feel that no matter how bad the leadership is, national unity still remains strong. I base this on the fact that MOST everyone I've talked to identifies themselves as American, not New Jerseyan, New Mexican, Washingtonian, etc...

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