WikiLeaks: Egyptian 'torturers' trained by FBI

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Telegraph

WikiLeaks: Egyptian 'torturers' trained by FBI
The US provided officers from the Egyptian secret police with training at the FBI, despite allegations that they routinely tortured detainees and suppressed political opposition.

By Steven Swinford 9:00PM GMT 09 Feb 2011

According to leaked diplomatic cables, the head of the Egyptian state security and investigative service (SSIS) thanked the US for “training opportunities” at the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia. The SSIS has been repeatedly accused of using violence and brutality to help prop up the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. In April, 2009, the US ambassador in Cairo stated that “Egypt’s police and domestic security services continue to be dogged by persistent, credible allegations of abuse of detainees.

“The Interior Ministry uses SSIS to monitor and sometimes infiltrate the political opposition and civil society. SSIS suppresses political opposition through arrests, harassment and intimidation.”

In October, 2009, “credible” human rights lawyers representing alleged Hizbollah detainees provided details of the techniques employed by the SSIS. The cable states: “The lawyers told us in mid-October that they have compiled accounts from several defendants of GOE torture by electric shocks, sleep deprivation, and stripping them naked for extended periods.

“The lawyers believe the accounts to be credible.”

A dispatch in January, 2010, states: “While the GOE and its supporters claim that police brutality is unusual, human rights lawyers believe it continues to be a pervasive, daily occurrence in prisons, police station and interior ministry state security headquarters.”



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[dipsydoodle]

1. What's the problem of a bit of "suppressing political opposition"

between friends like the US and Mubarak. :sarcasm:

[Joanne98]

2. Man the Telegraph has been kicking butt lately.

[EvilMonsanto]

3. This is NOT an Egyptian Dictatorship

It is an American dictatorship!!!!!!
We are funding and training this dictatorship
We have ensured it's existance for 31 years!!

I was listening to this idiot on the train today talking about how crazy egyptians are after seeing protests
He said these people are animals..

Oh how little does he know!
Ignorance will always be the root of hatred!!!!!!!!!!

[ave]

4. 28 hours in the dark heart of Egypt's torture machine

A correspondent of The Guardian just wrote a report about his recent experiences while being detained in Cairo.

(…)
I had "disappeared", along with countless Egyptians, inside the bowels of the Mukhabarat, President Hosni Mubarak's vast security-intelligence apparatus and an organisation headed, until recently, by his vice-president and former intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, the man trusted to negotiate an "orderly transition" to democratic rule.

Judging by what I witnessed, that seems a forlorn hope.
(...)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/09/egypt-torture-machine-mubarak-security?intcmp=239

[Divine Discontent]

5. I woulda put money on that anyhow. Reagan and his good ol Americans taught a lot to those in the

countries most of us would think of as suspect.

[Demeter]

6. But of course Wikileaks posts NOTHING of Significance

if you just don't give a S*** what this country says, does or spends money on....:sarcasm:

[marasinghe]

7. nice to see the g-men keeping up old traditions & sharing them with less-developed countries.

and the vacuum-cleaner man gone, but not forgotten.

[Solly Mack]

8. K&R

[DeSwiss]

9. K&R

Children Of Tomorrow

Children of tomorrow
I apologize to you
On behalf of those in my time
For the things we didn't do
We didn't stop the tyrants
So your fate could be prevented
We watched them steal our freedom
By our silence we consented
We didn't choose to circumvent
The doom you've not escaped
While the Bill of Rights was murdered
And the Constitution raped

Some of us were lazy
Others too afraid
To think about our children
The ones we have betrayed
I guess we were too busy
To be concerned or care
To try to ease the burden
Of the chains we made you wear
We could have been good shepherds
When the wolf got in the fold
But we watched the flame of freedom die instead
And left you cold

I'm sorry we were timid
My selfish generation
We left you but a remnant
Of a free and prosperous nation
I'm sorry for our actions
Like cowards we behaved
We could have left you freedom
Instead you are enslaved
Children of tomorrow
Descendants of our land
I'm sorry we allowed this
The fate you now with stand

- Anonymous