The UN investigators said photographic evidence - corroborated by testimony of former prisoners - showed detainees shackled, chained and hooded. Prisoners were beaten, stripped and shaved if they resisted, they said.
The report's findings were based on interviews with former detainees, public documents, media reports, lawyers and questions answered by the US government, which detailed the number of prisoners held but did not give their names or the status of charges against them.
Some of the interrogation techniques - particularly the use of dogs, exposure to extreme temperatures, sleep deprivation and prolonged isolation - caused extreme suffering.
"Such treatment amounts to torture, as it inflicts severe pain or suffering on the victims for the purpose of intimidation and/or punishment," the report said.
The UN experts who wrote the report had sought access to Guantánamo Bay since 2002. Three were invited last year, but refused in November after being told they could not interview detainees.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the UN report "clearly suffers from their unwillingness to take us up on our offer to go down to Guantánamo to observe first-hand the operations."
2007-12-18 00:39:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
FOX/GOP-TV only carries stories that support PRO-Bush, PRO-NeoCon, PRO-war, PRO-rightwing, PRO-christian, PRO-republican and PRO-military worldviews.
2007-12-18 00:48:05 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, because if you ever watch Fox News you can notice right away just like with any other corporate news outlet that they are biased and plus they also run adverts for all sort of companies and candidates and stuff like that meaning they are run by the corporates and that is automatically not fair and balanced! I have watched all the news channels and I can safely say that none of them have fallen anywhere near the left and they cannot because of their corporate sponsorships and the people who blabber on, like Glenn Beck or Geraldo Rivera or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or Keith Olbermann or any of the other talking heads they have. You could make up polls about anything and try and make silly claims like that, a lot of polling agencies do that and plus a lot of them also get corporate money so it really doesn't matter because if you look at the strings controlling the puppets you will see that the puppet master couldn't be farther from the left and most certainly is never fair or balanced or a real news person!
2016-05-24 21:26:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. The very words you quote show that the report does not contain one shred of facts. The people interviewed had every incentive to lie and they did just that.
First, torture is a perfectly acceptable way to get needed information to save American lives.
Second, torture did not happen anyway. It should have, but did not.
Any news agency should require proof before they report. I am actually surprised that Fox did not report it. They have become just as liberal as ABC, CBS, and NBC.
2007-12-18 00:44:12 · answer #3 · answered by A Human Bean 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why would Fox or anyone else give a crap about what the anti USA UN says? Rhio9 needs another bag of crack.
2007-12-18 00:59:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Any statement by the UN should be taken with a grain of salt.
2007-12-18 00:44:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
How do you know it wasn't?
2007-12-18 00:43:12 · answer #6 · answered by DOOM 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋