JAMA reports misuse of medical records to torture

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Now is the Journal of American Medicine going to incite riots as well??????

(snip)Omar Khadr was 15 when he was shot three times and captured at a suspected Al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan in July 2002, following a gun battle with U.S. troops.

In February, his U.S. lawyer told reporters the teenager had been used as a human mop to clean urine on the floor and had been beaten, threatened with rape and tied up for hours in painful positions at Guantanamo Bay.

Khadr's Canadian lawyer Dennis Edney said yesterday he has regularly raised concerns with Ottawa about the teen's treatment at Guantanamo and use of his client's medical records.

"This conduct is a blatant disregard by both Canada and the U.S. to recognize the special status international treaties and human rights law accords children and youths," Edney said yesterday.

On Tuesday, the Bush administration rejected a proposal to create an independent commission to investigate abuses of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. White House spokesperson Scott McClellan said the Pentagon has already launched 10 major investigations into allegations of abuse and the system was working well.

Mulugeta Abai, executive director of the Canadian Center for Victims of Torture in Toronto, wasn't surprised by the journal report. "This is practiced globally," he said. "This is very frustrating. A superpower that is considered a leader in many ways is losing its moral authority now, completely." (snip)


http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1119477015095&call_pageid=9683321

Omar Khadr is 18 and the youngest prisoner at Gitmo.


I wonder how the f****ers are going to explain there way out of this one. We are suppose to be better than this. Our Government is suppose to be better than this.

IMPEACH BUSH, CHENEY, RUMSFIELD. NOW. I'm so sick of this but I do not know what I can do. I give money to help different organizations. That's all I know to do. This is terrible.

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