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American Torture

CIA Detention Practices Remain Largely Secret --Afghan prisoner's death took two years to become public, illustrating agency's lack of scrutiny on detainee treatment and allegations of abuse. In November 2002, a newly minted CIA case officer in charge of a secret prison just north of Kabul allegedly ordered guards to strip naked an 'uncooperative' young Afghan detainee, chain him to the concrete floor and leave him there overnight without blankets, according to four U.S. government officials aware of the case... By morning, the Afghan man had frozen to death. After a quick autopsy by a CIA medic -- "hypothermia" was listed as the cause of death -- the guards buried the Afghan, who was in his twenties, in an unmarked, unacknowledged cemetery used by Afghan forces, officials said. The captive's family has never been notified; his remains have never been returned for burial. He is on no one's registry of captives, not even as a "ghost detainee," the term for CIA captives held in military prisons but not registered on the books, they said. "He just disappeared from the face of the earth," said one U.S. government official with knowledge of the case.

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The Real Reasons for war in Iraq and Iran

The publicly stated reasons as to why the United States will go to war against Iran have nothing to do with its nuclear ambitions but everything to do with her decision to sell oil based on the euro just as Saddam Hussein did. This in fact was the reason why the U.S. invaded Iraq.

See "Revisited - The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War with Iraq: A Macroeconomic and Geostrategic Analysis of the Unspoken Truth," January 2003 (updated January 2004) http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/RRiraqWar.html

William Clark is the author of an award-winning essay published online in early 2003 entitled: 'The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War with Iraq: A Macroeconomic and Geostrategic Analysis of the Unspoken Truth.'