Larisa Alexandrovna: The Evil Men Do... (GRAPHIC IMAGES WARNING)

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Larisa Alexandrovna: The Evil Men Do... (GRAPHIC IMAGES WARNING)

http://www.atlargely.com/2007/12/the-evil-that-m.html

The evil that men do...

Well, I will leave it to you to decide what it is that we have become.

There are two stories today that will make your blood boil - if you have a conscience that is, and your patriotism really mean something if you get up and say enough is enough - if you are patriotically inclined beyond just the symbols of freedom.

From our ally, Britain, and what we have done to one of their own (emph mine):

The photographic evidence will be vital to clear Binyam Mohammed, 27, who the Americans want to bring before a Military Commission on charges of terrorism, say his lawyers.

Last week it emerged that Britain had negotiated the release of four detainees who have British residence status but Mr Mohammed, who speaks with a London accent, and at least three others are being held back.

In a letter sent to the Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Britain is urged to ask the US to stop the CIA destroying the pictures.

Clive Stafford-Smith, the legal director of Reprieve representing Mr Mohammed, said that he also knows the identity of the agents who were present when his client was allegedly beaten and tortured. Writing to Mr Miliband, he said: "Given the opportunity, we can prove that the evidence was the fruit of torture. Indeed, we can prove that a photographic record was made of this by the CIA. Through diligent investigation we know when the CIA took pictures of Mr Mohammed's brutalised genitalia, we know the identity of the CIA agents who were present including the person who took the pictures (we know both their false identities and their true names), and we know what those pictures show."

He added: "I have been privy to materials that allegedly support the finding that Mr Mohammed should be held, and while I cannot discuss some here (due to classification rules), I can state unequivocally that I have seen no evidence of any kind against Mr Mohammed that is not the bitter fruit of torture."

BELOW ARE VERY GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING PHOTOS. DON'T CONTINUE IF YOU WISH TO AVOID THEM.

Release the names of the interrogators, because they have no place in any society. What did they do that caused this man's genitalia to be "brutalized?" Somehow, I think, that the people who were doing the brutalizing were likely contractors. Sex crimes are not usually the turf of professionals, not unless there is a whole new monster working the halls of our various intelligence and military organizations and departments.

If you think this is isolated, then consider what my good friend and the most important journalist of this era has said on the topic of torture and the victims in US custody.

And I would � debating about it (long pause). Some of the worst things that happened that you don�t know about. OK? Videos. There are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at (Abu Ghraib), which is about 30 miles from Baghdad � 30 kilometers, maybe, just 20 miles, I'm not sure whether it's � anyway. The women were passing messages out saying please come and kill me because of what�s happened. And basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children, in cases that have been (video) recorded, the boys were sodomized, with the cameras rolling, and the worst above all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking. That your government has, and they�re in total terror it�s going to come out. It�s impossible to say to yourself, how did we get there, who are we, who are these people that sent us there.

Aside from questions of child pornography being made as these kids are raped (you can call it evidence of interrogations if you want, i call it child porn) is the obvious question, who the hell is raping these children? Would professionals in any branch of our government actively partake in this type of activity? If so, why would their names require protection or their crimes the cover of national security?

We also know that these are not the first sexual horrors conducted on the imprisoned victims of this administration. Below are photos bravely released by Salon which show incredibly horrific things. I warn you in advance.

The below picture is said to be of a mentally retarded man who is forced to sodomize himself with a banana.

These two men are both naked and chained together, photographed with their genitals exposed.

This is a photo of a female prisoner forced to show her breasts.

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These are photos that have been allowed to see the light of day. Imagine what we have yet to see.

The second story is about a contractor you may have heard of, Halliburton:

"A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.

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"Don't plan on working back in Iraq. There won't be a position here, and there won't be a position in Houston," Jones says she was told.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its then-subsidiary KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave.

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Finally, Jones says, she convinced a sympathetic guard to loan her a cell phone so she could call her father in Texas.

"I said, 'Dad, I've been raped. I don't know what to do. I'm in this container, and I'm not able to leave,'" she said. Her father called their congressman, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas.

"We contacted the State Department first," Poe told ABCNews.com, "and told them of the urgency of rescuing an American citizen" -- from her American employer."

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Legal experts say Jones' alleged assailants will likely never face a judge and jury, due to an enormous loophole that has effectively left contractors in Iraq beyond the reach of United States law."

Now why would the DOJ not investigate this matter? Clearly there appears to be a culture of sexual violence that not only exists inside the prison walls, but also outside of them. Moreover, the sexual crimes are not restricted to gender, age or nationality. I wonder how many other women have been raped and not come forward out of fear.

Then of course there is the question of what happens to these rapists, torture jocks, and prison pornographers once they get back home. Do they just go back to their day job? Do they live next door to you or me? Do we have a right to know if a child rapists is living among us? Does it matter if happens to wear a uniform or have an American flag on his lapel? You see my point, don't you? These are criminal acts that are outside of the pro-war/pro-peace argument. Rape is not interrogation. Simulated rape using foreign objects is also not interrogation. Forcing prisoners to expose their genitals for the camera is also not interrogation. These would all fall under sex crimes, would they not?

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