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igotthisguitar
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 Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject: Love thy enemy ... |
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"Love thy enemy" -- U.S. Soldier Gets Honorary Discharge 
Reuters - Tue Oct 16, 3:32 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier who said his Christian beliefs compelled him to love his enemies, not kill them, has been granted conscientious objector status and honorably discharged, a civil liberties group said on Tuesday
CONT'd ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071016/ts_nm/usa_soldier_beliefs_dc
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igotthisguitar
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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US Lawmakers Apologize In Torture Case
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer
Thu Oct 18, 6:14 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Members of Congress apologized Thursday to a Canadian engineer seized by U.S. officials and taken to Syria, where he was tortured.
Maher Arar said he was ensnared in an "immoral" terrorism-fighting program known as extraordinary rendition.
The 37-year-old appeared before a joint hearing of House subcommittees by video from Ottawa, Canada.
He remains on a U.S. government "watch" list.
"Let me personally give you what our government has not: an apology," said Rep. Bill Delahunt, D-Mass., as he opened the hearing. "Let me apologize to you and the Canadian people for our government's role in ... a mistake."
Arar said he was grateful for the apologies, but hoped the Bush administration would do so, too
"Let me be clear: I am not a terrorist, I am not a member of al-Qaida or any terror group. I am a father, a husband, and an engineer. I am also a victim of the immoral practice of extraordinary rendition," he said.
Arar said he was thrown in a tiny cell and tortured into falsely confessing that he had trained at a terrorist camp in Afghanistan.
"Life in that cell was hell. I spent 10 months and 10 days in that grave," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/torture_rendition;_ylt=AvnScnXXhssnQZLz8plDXzMDW7oF |
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Mix1
Joined: 08 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| igotthisguitar wrote: |
US Lawmakers Apologize In Torture Case
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer
Thu Oct 18, 6:14 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Members of Congress apologized Thursday to a Canadian engineer seized by U.S. officials and taken to Syria, where he was tortured.
Maher Arar said he was ensnared in an "immoral" terrorism-fighting program known as extraordinary rendition.
The 37-year-old appeared before a joint hearing of House subcommittees by video from Ottawa, Canada.
He remains on a U.S. government "watch" list.
"Let me personally give you what our government has not: an apology," said Rep. Bill Delahunt, D-Mass., as he opened the hearing. "Let me apologize to you and the Canadian people for our government's role in ... a mistake."
Arar said he was grateful for the apologies, but hoped the Bush administration would do so, too
"Let me be clear: I am not a terrorist, I am not a member of al-Qaida or any terror group. I am a father, a husband, and an engineer. I am also a victim of the immoral practice of extraordinary rendition," he said.
Arar said he was thrown in a tiny cell and tortured into falsely confessing that he had trained at a terrorist camp in Afghanistan.
"Life in that cell was hell. I spent 10 months and 10 days in that grave," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/torture_rendition;_ylt=AvnScnXXhssnQZLz8plDXzMDW7oF |
And that's just one case that actually made it to the news. How about the legality issue? How is this legal? |
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