News tagged with 'torture'. Found 26 tagged news.

McCain to join talk show

Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 23 days ago

John McCain, the defeated Republican presidential contender, will give his first post-election interview next week as a guest on Jay Leno's late-night talk show, NBC television said Friday. Vietnam veteran McCain has been invited to appear Tuesday in...

Tags: mccain, john mccain, election, mccain set, Jay Leno, Sen. John McCain, NBC, us presidential election, barack obama, torture, obama, war, president, veteran, barack, presidential election

President Bush was confused by what “Waterboarding” meant.

New York City :: NY :: USA | about 1 month ago

Posted by LeftFair.Com

According to The Washington Post George W. Bush explicitly endorsed the CIA's use of torture interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects, despite his repeated assertions that "The United States Doesn't Torture". Even though...

Tags: George Bush, George W Bush, GOP, Interrogation, Interrogation Techniques, President Bush, Republicans, Torture, W, Waterboarding

at last some one said something

Jerusalem :: Israel | about 1 month ago

Posted by mohannadtbeleh

Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli Minister Ami Ayalon has been declared a persona non grata in the Netherlands, after having a case filed against him in the Dutch courts accusing him of torturing Palestinian Khalid Al-Shami during his time...

Tags: criminal, Israel, torture, injured, prison, soldiers, Dutch, Gaza, Lawyer, Lawyers

8 years after October riots - more discrimination

Jerusalem :: Israel | about 1 month ago

Eight years have lapsed since the October 2000 riots, in which 13 Israeli Arab protesters were killed by police forces trying to quell the riot...The Shin Bet, they said, has been calling more and more Arab political and social activists in for interrogation....

Tags: israel, torture, dutch, lawyers, lawyer, Ami Ayalon, The Netherlands, Israeli, shin bet, spy chief

evilOpinion: Pay No Attention to the Man in the Big White House.

Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago

Posted by evilopinions

I wonder how many people were actually surprised to see George W. Bush making a couple speeches this week. "Hey anybody know who this guy in the big white house is on my television screen?" Seriously, I know Bush has taken more time OFF from being President...

Tags: bush, president, history, crimes, treason, guantanamo bay, torture, department of justice

Ancient Torture Devices Auctioned - Includes Brain Crusher

Berlin :: Germany | 2 months ago

Posted by wikiboy

A headcrusher, an Iron Maiden and a highway's coffin are among the grim implements recovered from the cellar of a German museum which are set to be auctioned later this month. The devices are believed to date from medieval times. They were discovered...

Tags: torture, auction

Will Bush Create International Incident to Help Republicans, McCain Win White House?

Columbus :: OH :: USA | 3 months ago

Posted by OhioNewsBureau

Russia’s Putin Says Skirmish in Georgia Devised by Bush to Benefit McCain OhioNewsBureau Opinion Editorial COLUMBUS, OHIO: Is the story run by the BBC Thursday about Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s speculation that the shooting...

Tags: Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, John McCain, Barack Obama, Russia, Georgia, Karl Rove, war, torture, White House, KGB, US Justice Department, Harriet Miers, Cuba, missile crisis

Weighing the integrity of “disease management”.

Toronto :: Canada | 3 months ago

Posted by KevinM

Weighing the integrity of “disease management”. A sound mind requires a conscious effort, to add information into their grown knowledge base or psyche. It is a balancing act you create for yourself in your own mind which justifies confidence...

Tags: Human rights abuse, Autonomy, Torture, Fascism, Oppression, Public Health, Industrial Socializm, Health Intervention, Stakeholders, Scoping, Framing

British MPs raise US torture concerns

London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago

The Foreign Affairs Committee says the two countries have clear differences in their definitions of torture. It recommended a change in policy following US admissions that waterboarding, or simulated drowning, had been used during interrogations. Labour...

Tags: torture, waterboarding, interrogation, UK Commons, Britain, U.S, face value, longer rely

Ashcroft Testifies About Guantanamo Interrogation Methods

Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago

Ashcroft is “somewhat on the hot seat,” according to Fox News:

Tags: interrogation, waterboarding, interrogation techniques, torture, John Ashcroft, attorney general, Justice Department, general john, ashcroft defend, House Judiciary Committee, terrorist attacks, legal opinion, interrogations technique, interrogations methods