Pixelated Semantics

A schizotypical inventory

Spray and slay

The Independant documents the appalling characteristics of what it openly calls the 'Dirty War' in Iraq - where Coalition involvement is charged in:

• Endemic torture of prisoners
  
• Use of napalm and phosphorus
  
• Extra-judicial killings
  
• Indiscriminate 'spray and slay'

There is an interesting quote from a 'British officer' who said 'You hear about the militias infiltrating the police. But they did not have to. We invited them to join.' It also separately reports on the killing of civillians by Marines, including the 'shooting and killing of a British TV crew'.

Meanwhile Amnesty International is holding a conference in London which brings together the biggest gathering of former 'war on terror' detainees - and the transcripts of their accounts of the Gitmo experience are sober, compelling indictments of the systematic dehumanising use of torture.

Moazzam Begg: 'The use of torture has in the 21st century become a topic of debate. Should we or should we not. And I think that it's just such a terrible statement ... on the state of us as human beings on the planet today.

The people who claim to be the upholders and defenders of freedom are debating now whether it is legitimate to use torture. After all of what the world has been through arguing against the fact. And if it does in one way or another become legitimised, either mental torture or physical or psychological, which has been clearly used by several countries, then I think the world will spiral into something that nobody will be able to control.'

And speaking of unreliable evidence, the United Nations inquiry into the murder of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafiq Hairri was headed by the same man who provided the 'irrefutable proof' (later considered to be fake) of Libyan guilt in a nightclub bombing in Germany, which then justified Ronald Reagan's bombing of Libya.

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