“In the name of fighting terrorism you don’t become a terrorist”
Published: 24 August, 2009, 10:10
Edited: 29 April, 2010, 04:42
UNITED STATES, GUANTANAMO NAVAL BASE: US Army military police escort a detainee to his cell in Camp X-Ray at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, January 2002 (AFP Photo / US Navy / Shane T. McCoy)
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As a CIA report is expected to reveal details of interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay, RT spoke to Moazzam Begg who spent two years at the camp and was released without charges ever being brought against him.
Before been sent to Guantanamo, Begg spent a year in several U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan. He says that “the U.S. military machine was capable of detaining people to neutralize them that was the term they used, ‘you are neutralized, we know that you have not committed a crime but you fit a profile and that profile enables us to carry out this neutralization.”
“British intelligence also questioned me and said ‘there is nothing we can do to help you’ and ‘you need to co-operate with the U.S.” he added.
 Moazzam Begg |
While in Guantanamo prison he was interrogated over 300 times and most of the question asked concerned the UK, because as Begg puts it “I have never been to the US, the US came to me.”
24.08.2009, 08:49
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Let's not forget all of the crimes commuted by USA during the cold war against people in Latin America, all of those innocent peasants and children and workers who were murdered by dictators imposed by USA. Those people murdered wanted to create a just society and social wefare for all, but they were labeled "communists". The dogs of USA really took a bite of crime and thus I put the USA as guilty of terrorism of the highest degree.
The man is not alone in his thinking on the twin towers collapsing like a controlled demolition . I cant comment I don't know enough . How does one know who to believe . Some say dropping those nuclear bombs on Japan saved a lot of lives , both American and Japanese . No doubt it was terrorism to the highest degree . Now I have just read for the first time the Japanese had been trying to surrender before the bombs were even dropped . This means I should not be holding Truman up as one of my best presidents . But who should I believe . I spent considerable effort finding out what was going on in the war against Yugoslavia , and the trails of the Orthodox christian Serbs in the Hague . I found out I no longer believe NATO , England , France ,Germany or the United States on their version of what happened in Yugoslavia . I know whom I believe , and it is not the United States , NATO , or even the main stream media . I believed Milosevic way more than his prosecution , He used numerous western witnesses too credible to discount . Canadian Generals , German high officers , Spanish pilots . Milosevic destroyed the charges against him and the Hague court itself , Yet the western news media never got this information to us . instead they just brought us more and more lies .
Zak, It was not genocide as the USA didn't yet intend to annihilate the Japanese people. I'll go with test and war crime though. And yet, not ONE person has come out, even anonymously, that was involved in the 9/11 investigation in any way, to say that something doesn't add up. Not one person. It is beyond illogical to believe it is possible for ANY government to have a 100% success rate of keeping the truth from being revealed from the thousands of FBI agents, firefighters, demolition experts, scientists, CIA, rescue workers, police, airline pilots, NSA, the majority of the House of Representatives, air traffic control, high-level military contractors, and the entire Bush administration. Noam Chomsky even spoke on how illogical it is for what you claim. Let's not forget that there was no need for a controlled demolition; the attempted attack would be all that is needed for the US to go on to do exactly what it did. The WTC towers did not need to be destroyed to accomplish this. And the claim of insurance being paid out as a reason doesn't hold out since the insurance paid out ~3.8 billion dollars and as of FY 2006, 5.6 billion has been spent on rebuilding, cleaning out, property taxes, et al. So there goes the only reason the towers needed to be destroyed, and there goes the chair you were standing on. There's plenty of real stuff that the US did, you don't have to make other things up.