Jordan accused of torturing suspects for U.S.

[struggle4progress]

Jul. 23, 2006. 07:45 PM

LONDON (AP) — ... The report said its investigators had identified about 10 suspected cases of men subjected to rendition from U.S. custody to interrogation centers in Jordan, a close U.S. ally in the Middle East.

"Jordan appears to be a central hub in a global complex of secret detention centers operated by the U.S. in coordination with foreign intelligence agencies," said Malcolm Smart, director of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa unit and an author of the report ...

The Amnesty report called on Jordan to end its practice of holding suspects in secrecy, reduce the powers of the General Intelligence Department, promptly investigate and punish any cases of torture and stop participating in U.S. renditions.

In June, a Council of Europe investigator concluded that most European states had facilitated the rendition of terrorism suspects from U.S. custody to interrogation centers in Jordan and at least three other countries: Egypt, Poland and Romania ...

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[Kagemusha]

1. Jordan has long been admired for breaking family members of terrorists

People have always looked at Jordan as a country that gets it right when it comes to fighting terrorists. I'd heard of that before the Bush admin. I just never assumed that following 9/11 that the US would seek to emulate Jordan's brutal example.

Well chalk me up as naive for that one.

[NVMojo]

2. the fecking sick shit just continues with this facist regime, doesn't it?

time to overthrow!

[Monkeyman]

3. Whan are the people going to impeach this ------

[Disturbed]

5. I wonder what happened to the female failed

suicide bomber?

[Just Me]

4. That information truly saddens me because I viewed Jordan,...

,...as a center advocating decency in spite of the capitalistic endeavors it embraces.

I think,...I'll hold judgment on this one.

[Kagemusha]

6. I don't think they do this because they enjoy it or anything. But...

Jordan's monarchy is not in a hurry to get overthrown. The old King Hussein was a kid when the sitting king was assassinated. His country almost got taken over by the PLO in the 70's if it wasn't for a really brutal crackdown. They have a lot of terrorists who'd love to take it down.

So behind the scenes where no one sees, they get very, very brutal in a targeted fashion.

Unlike the US, they then largely leave everyone else alone. That's a key part of the monarchy's survival there.