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29
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by QuestionGirl • 10:37 am
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So Bush loves torturing innocent people so much, he’s paying for the privilege. He should be paying for it by sitting in a jail cell. And so should every congress person who voted for his Detainee Retroactive Amnesty to Bush Bill. This nightmare just keeps getting worse by the day.
(CBS/AP) Pakistani authorities have abducted hundreds of people, accused them of terrorist ties and held them in secret locations or handed them over to U.S. authorities for American-offered rewards, Amnesty International claimed in a report issued Friday.
The routine U.S. practice of offering bounties running to thousands of dollars for unidentified terror suspects has led to illegal detentions of innocent people, said Claudio Cordone, senior director of research at Amnesty International.
Angelika Pathak, a London-based researcher for the Amnesty International, said such U.S. rewards led to terror arrests and rights abuses in Pakistan.
“Bounty hunters - including police officers and local people - have captured individuals of different nationalities, often apparently at random, and sold them into U.S. custody,” he said.
Read full article at CBS News
Filed: Bush, Terrorism, Torture





