http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/newscomment.html?in_article_id=461016&in_page_id=1787Torture is NEVER justified...and our spineless leaders must find the courage to tell that to Bush
The tycoon who famously donated £5m to the Tories tells why he now feels compelled to give his money to a very different cause
by STUART WHEELER -
You 'know' a man is a terrorist but cannot prove it. What do you do?
If you are President Bush, you have the CIA pluck him off the streets, deny him access to anyone and fly him to Egypt, Syria or Jordan to be tortured. This is known as extraordinary rendition.
You might have thought torture happened only in the barbaric Middle Ages. But as renditions expert Stephen Grey and human rights organisation Amnesty have recently pointed out, it is happening right now with the full approval of a supposedly civilised nation: the United States.
The US has also sanctioned the shackling of prisoners’ limbs, the threat of dog attacks and the prolonged maintenance of stress positions or repetitive exercises while attacking China, Eritrea, Burma, Iran and Libya for carrying out those same abuses.
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