[lit-ideas] Re: More like the Gulag all the time
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:03:26 -0700
>I wonder what the spin on this will be in a day or two...
> Ursula
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5043187,00.html
This has been reported a number of times. CIA bought prisoners for about $5,000
per head.
The tribesmen sold basically anyone they could catch, local troublemakers,
outsiders, etc.
A number of US military officers have stated that about 90% of the people in
the US gulag
are completely innocent. They were just hauled in. Despite innocence, they've
been tortured.
A number were also murdered.
Of the some 40,000 men that were captured in Afghanistan, less than 5,000 were
alive after a
few months. Some 35,000 Afghani prisoners were murdered. This was either in US
custody or by
persons working on behalf of the CIA (druglords, tribal chiefs, etc.)
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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