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By John Byrne

Bush Administration memos released by the White House on Thursday provide new insight into claims that American agents used insects to torture the young children of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22440.htm



Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 'waterboarded 183 times'

A 2005 Justice Department memorandum revealed that the simulated drowning technique was used on Mohammed 183 times in March 2003.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6130165.ece



No Amnesty for Torturers

By Dave Lindorff

The issue is, do we as a nation now subscribe to the idea that the way to deal with evil perpetrated by ourselves is to bury it? [. . .] Isn't that precisely what we have been for decades accusing the Germans and the Japanese of doing: burying in the mists of time their criminal behavior as a people and as a nation? [. . .] the president is wrong. Darkness does not go away when the fog comes. It just gets darker.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22443.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Alleged 9/11 Mastermind and 4 Other Gitmo Prisoners to Stand Trial in NY Federal Court
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/11/13-0

ACLU: 9/11 Defendants To Be Tried In Federal Court
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/13



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