Have you noticed that no one, not even Keith Olbermann will talk about Bush taking child hostages?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/09/1047144871928.html

We have your sons: CIA

March 10 2003
By Olga Craig
Kuwait

Two young sons of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, are being used by the CIA to force their father to talk.

Yousef al-Khalid, 9, and his brother, Abed al-Khalid, 7, were taken into custody in Pakistan in September when intelligence officers raided a flat in Karachi where their father had been hiding.

Mohammed fled just hours before the raid but his sons and another senior al-Qaeda member were found cowering behind a wardrobe in the apartment.

The boys have been held by the Pakistani authorities but this weekend they were flown to America where they will be questioned about their father. CIA interrogators confirmed that the boys were staying at a secret address where they were being encouraged to talk about their father's activities. "We are handling them with kid gloves," said one official. "After all, they are only little children, but we need to know as much about their father's recent activities as possible. We have child psychologists on hand at all times and they are given the best of care."

[panader0]

1. That's some sick shit. I'm sure Obama will stop this kind of BS

[MountainLaurel]

2. i hadn't realized no one was mentioning it

But I think it should definitely play a role in decisions about the pursuit of war crimes charges.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. You ask my kids what I have been doing lately, you'll just get an "I dunno" and a shrug. I feel

very badly for those kids. They must be so scared, kid gloves or not.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

4. I remember that vividly.

And that wasn't the only time they did that. They also used families of Iraqi officials as hostages to get the officials to turn themselves in. :mad:

[yodermon]

5. where are these kids now, anyone know? n/t

[w8liftinglady]

6. what happened to those children?

that story kind of "disappeared"

[fumsm]

7. Afraid he'll loose his job... repukes run everything

[beac]

8. "best of care"????

:wtf:


I don't care HOW nice they are being to these kids-- they were kidnapped from their home and are PRISONERS. NO amount of child psychology (from foreign doctors who likely don't speak their language well) makes up for that!


And what happens when we've "extracted" all the useful information??? Who can we return these kids to?

Excuse me while I go puke.

[TheWraith]

9. I believe Keith has in fact mentioned it, though it's unconfirmed. nt

[DKRC]

10. Same time of Yoo's torture memo

Justice Dept Releases John Yoo Torture Memo
By Jeralyn, Section War on Terror
Posted on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 09:24:29 PM EST

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The Justice Department today released John Yoo's 2003 torture memo to Congress. This is the infamous memo that the Bush Administration relied on in justifying it's "harsh interrorgation techniques" on prisoners overseas. This was the memo that was in force when the Abu Ghraib detainees were subjected to cruel treatment and torture.
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Source: Talk Left


Bush Advisor Says President Has Legal Power to Torture Children

By Philip Watts
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01/08/06 "revcom.us" -- -- John Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the President from ordering the torture of a child of a suspect in custody – including by crushing that child’s testicles.

This came out in response to a question in a December 1st debate in Chicago with Notre Dame professor and international human rights scholar Doug Cassel.

What is particularly chilling and revealing about this is that John Yoo was a key architect post-9/11 Bush Administration legal policy. As a deputy assistant to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, John Yoo authored a number of legal memos arguing for unlimited presidential powers to order torture of captive suspects, and to declare war anytime, any where, and on anyone the President deemed a threat.

It has now come out Yoo also had a hand in providing legal reasoning for the President to conduct unauthorized wiretaps of U.S. citizens. Georgetown Law Professor David Cole wrote, "Few lawyers have had more influence on President Bush’s legal policies in the 'war on terror’ than John Yoo."
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Source: Information Clearing House

[Festivito]

11. There were kids tortured in front of parents, this would obscure that.

The evidence has not been released yet, Hersh noted having seen it. It's a RW tactic to make stories similar so that a more egregious story becomes mute.