torture report – The Muslim Times

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on December 15, 2014 ( Leave a comment )

Robert Fisk on the CIA ‘torture report’: Once again language is distorted in order to hide US state wrongdoing. Perhaps Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told his torturers he could fly through the air

Thank God for Noam Chomsky. Not for his lifetime of eviscerating assaults on our political hypocrisy, but for his linguistics. Long before I knew him, undergraduate Fisk laboured at his university linguistics course, where Chomsky’s work first alerted me to the pernicious use of language. Hence I condemn at once […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on December 10, 2014 ( Leave a comment )

It is our indignation, not that of the Arab world, that torturers fear. We are the bad guys too The Muslim world has been enraged about these crimes for years

by Robert Fisk, The Independent Up to the end, they wanted to keep it secret. And the vicious psychopaths and sadists that ran the CIA’s torture centres “on our behalf” […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on December 10, 2014 ( Leave a comment )

Religious Leaders On Senate Torture Report: ‘Complete Moral Bankruptcy’

Religious leaders have been at the forefront of the fight to end torture, and the Senate Intelligence Committee’s 500-page summary on the CIA’s treatment of terrorism suspects seems to have […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on December 9, 2014 ( Leave a comment )

The 20 damning report findings into CIA’s post-9/11 ‘torture’ programme

The US Senate Intelligence Committee has published its highly anticipated and divisive report into the CIA’s detention and interrogation programme employed after the September 11 attacks. Only the executive summary of the 6,700-page classified report has been published, including its 20 findings. The 20 conclusions are presented below, including particularly […]