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Originally Posted by 12clicks
how is it that trash has time to filter the news for the slightest hint of inpropriety by the US but can never seem to see the terrorist crimes blazened across the news?
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Here is another one for you, democracy spreading dickhead
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U.S. tells UN Guantanamo inmates off-limits
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
The United States has turned down a UN human rights panel's request to provide information about its detention centers in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a report showed Tuesday.
Washington declined to include information on detention facilities outside U.S. territory in its report submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee.
The committee, made up of 18 independent experts elected by the UN General Assembly, in July 2004 pressed Washington for information about its overseas military detention centers.
However, according to the U.S. response last month, these fall outside the committee's remit because they are "governed by the laws of war." Like the other 153 signatories of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the United States is bound to submit regular reports to the committee on its implementation of what is the UN's core human rights accord.
Washington reaffirmed its stance that the covenant only applies on U.S. territory - something the committee has disputed in the past.
"The obligations assumed by the United States under the covenant apply only within the territory of the United States," said the report.
"The United States has sought to respond to the committee's concerns as fully as possible, notwithstanding the continuing difference of view between the committee and the United States concerning certain matters relating to the import and scope of provision of the covenant," it added.
The UN committee also gathers information from non-governmental sources.
Released detainees and advocacy groups have made regular allegations of human rights violations at the U.S. military's foreign detention centers, stoked by the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal in Iraq.
Last week, Washington announced that it would invite three UN human rights experts to visit the base for a day, with the goal "to broaden understanding of U.S. detention operations and to demonstrate that detainees at Guantanamo are treated humanely."
rest of liberating article lol
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Liberators ....
Hoooooo Whooooooo .... Iran is so bad ....
The difference is that Iran, or N-K, or China don't claim to spread peace and democracy ...
!2shits, how goes ?