WikiLeaks: Egyptian 'torturers' trained by FBI

[EFerrari]

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.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8314475/WikiLeaks-Egyptian-torturers-trained-by-FBI.html

[xchrom]

1. recommend

i thought nothing important came out of wikileaks? i read that on DU.

[EFerrari]

2. The idea of the FBI training anybody is already frightening

all by itself.

[formercia]

4. I spent a couple of weeks at the FBI Academy

Actually, the food wasn't too bad. At the time, it was catered by Marriott, who also maintained the rooms.

The Fogarty Brothers Inc...are a hoot.

[EFerrari]

5. I did a little bit of translating for them and they always seemed very tense

like the sixties hadn't been over long enough, lol. Our office was about a foot away from the federal building in San Francisco. All kinds of interesting people all over the place.

[formercia]

6. Blues Brothers Period.

Obviously, they weren't trying to blend. :hi:

[leftstreet]

3. K&R

[Dystopian]

7. KandR.

peace~

[bobthedrummer]

8. ^