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De BBC bericht:

'Rumsfeld torture suit dismissed.
A US court has dismissed a lawsuit against former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld over claims prisoners were tortured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The court accepted that the nine men who sued had been tortured - and detailed the torture in its ruling.
But Judge Thomas Hogan ruled the five Iraqis and four Afghans did not have US constitutional rights, and also that Mr Rumsfeld was immune from such suits.
Two human rights groups brought the suit against him and three officers.
Judge Hogan threw out the claims against retired Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez, the former commander of US military forces in Iraq, Col Thomas Pappas and former Brig Gen Janis Karpinski, both former commanders at Abu Ghraib prison.
In a ruling stretching to nearly 60 pages, the chief judge of the US district court for the District of Columbia said the allegations of torture were "horrifying".
Details of abuse
The nine men suffered abuse including being:
hung upside-down and slapped until they lost consciousness
stabbed with knives
subjected to electric shocks
deprived of sleep by loud noises and bright lights
grabbed by aggressive dogs
They also were subjected to sexual humiliation.
None was ever charged with a crime.'

Lees verder: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6501499.stm

De Nederlandse regering steunt op verschillende manieren de hier beschreven grove schendingen van het internationaal recht en is daardoor mede verantwoordelijk voor deze terreur. En de Nederlandse burgers accepteren dit zolang ze zich er niet tegen verzetten op een democratische manier.