Salon: Law expert says Guantanamo is worse than Abu Grahaib.

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More cold-blooded than Abu Ghraib

An international law expert explains why the new Red Cross report on the Guantanamo prison camp is more disturbing than the U.S.-operated torture chambers in Baghdad.

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Leila Sadat, who also served as a commissioner on the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom during the Clinton administration, spoke with Salon about the Red Cross report on Monday afternoon.

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One of the key questions raised by the Red Cross report is whether military physicians were helping with the interrogations or sharing medical information about detainees with the interrogators. How unusual is that?

That's pretty shocking. Doctors historically like to keep their roles separate. In Geneva law there's a real historical precedent for that, which is the Nazis during World War II really involved the doctors in their interrogation and medical experiments, and it was just horrific. After the war, there were trials of Nazi doctors. And the Nuremberg principles against medical experimentation were adopted. So it's been pretty clear in international law since World War II that you need to keep the medical folks separate. Doctors are there to treat the wounded, to treat the sick. They're not there to provide assistance to interrogators.
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And if the U.S. did deny the Red Cross entrée to prison camps, what league would that put us in?

That would put us alongside North Korea.
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/12/01/redcross/index.html

[readmoreoften]

1. Surprised? I'm not.

But I would be surprised to find more than a handful of al-qaida in the bunch.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I read the report

as a former red cross worker I knew that the public report is nothing compared to the reality... there are some things that don't go on them reports...

My GOD George Bush IS a war criminal and anybody who refers to him by any other term is NAIVE