Secret European prisons! Guantánamo forced feedings! Is it tortue? A Roman Catholic Ursuline nun endured a similar CIA-horror
Secret European Prisons
The Bush administration refuses to come clean about secret prisons in Europe. However, the Swiss claim to have evidence of “secret CIA-run prisons in Europe.” The Swiss claim to have an “Egyptian government message naming countries” where the prisons were kept. The secret prisons included “23 terror suspects at a military base in Romania,” and “similar US detention centres in Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria.”
Forced Feedings in Guantánamo
Cap. John Edmondson, hospital commander at Guantánamo, admits, “hunger strikers are tied down and fed through nasal tubes.” Edmondson says the procedure “requires that a foreign body be inserted into the body and, ideally, remain in it… a nasogastric tube is never inserted and moved up and down. It is inserted down into the stomach slowly and directly, and it would be impossible to insert the wrong end of the tube.” But, Edmondson admits it’s “painful.”
Sr. Dianna Ortiz – 1989 Guatemala
In 1989, Republican George H. W. Bush was President. That year, Sr. Ortiz, an Ursuline nun from New Mexico, was working in Guatemala. She was “kidnapped,” shuttled-off to a “secret prison” and “repeatedly raped and tortured by troops commanded by General Hector Gramajo (a CIA asset and graduate of the U.S. Army School of the Americas)” According to Sr. Ortiz, "U.S. personnel were present in interrogation and torture rooms.”
Torture? You decide.
The Bush administration refuses to come clean about secret prisons in Europe. However, the Swiss claim to have evidence of “secret CIA-run prisons in Europe.” The Swiss claim to have an “Egyptian government message naming countries” where the prisons were kept. The secret prisons included “23 terror suspects at a military base in Romania,” and “similar US detention centres in Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria.”
Forced Feedings in Guantánamo
Cap. John Edmondson, hospital commander at Guantánamo, admits, “hunger strikers are tied down and fed through nasal tubes.” Edmondson says the procedure “requires that a foreign body be inserted into the body and, ideally, remain in it… a nasogastric tube is never inserted and moved up and down. It is inserted down into the stomach slowly and directly, and it would be impossible to insert the wrong end of the tube.” But, Edmondson admits it’s “painful.”
Sr. Dianna Ortiz – 1989 Guatemala
In 1989, Republican George H. W. Bush was President. That year, Sr. Ortiz, an Ursuline nun from New Mexico, was working in Guatemala. She was “kidnapped,” shuttled-off to a “secret prison” and “repeatedly raped and tortured by troops commanded by General Hector Gramajo (a CIA asset and graduate of the U.S. Army School of the Americas)” According to Sr. Ortiz, "U.S. personnel were present in interrogation and torture rooms.”
Torture? You decide.
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