CIA TOTURE VIOLATED MEDICAL ETHICS
CIA interrogators are accused of having used a range of techniques on detainees, including physical threats, mock executions, choking to the point where detainees lost consciousness, and even using a stiff brush to scrub a detainee's skin raw.
Source: The Agencies
- Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) warned that such spy agency techniques - and monitoring by doctors to gauge their effectiveness - "approaches unlawful experimentation" on human subjects.
- The group called for a separate investigation of the medical experts involved to determine whether "criminal and unprofessional conduct" took place and said those who violated medical ethics rules should lose their licenses.
- The US-based medical rights advocacy group condemned the activities.
- "Such medical participation in torture is a clear violation of medical ethics," said PHR.
- The group also said the health experts "were complicit in selecting and then rationalizing these abusive methods, whose safety and efficacy in eliciting accurate information have no valid basis in science."
- Meanwhile, in response to a request, the CIA declared it cannot turn over more details of its interrogations of terror suspects without spilling classified government secrets.
- A report released last week shed new light on alleged CIA abuses. The agency faced a Monday court deadline to turn over more papers, but the CIA responded by telling the federal judge in the case that dozens of remaining documents must stay secret.
ISRAEL WILL FALL IN 20 YEARS
A study conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has cast doubt over Israel's survival beyond the next 20 years.The CIA report predicts "an inexorable movement away from a two-state to a one-state solution, as the most viable model based on democratic principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial Apartheid while allowing for the return of the 1947/1948 and 1967 refugees. The latter being the precondition for sustainable peace in the region."
The study, which has been made available only to a certain number of individuals, further forecasts the return of all Palestinian refugees to the occupied territories, and the exodus of two million Israeli - who would move to the US in the next fifteen years.
"There is over 500,000 Israelis with American passports and more than 300,000 living in the area of just California," International lawyer Franklin Lamb said in an interview with Press TV on Friday, adding that those who do not have American or western passport, have already applied for them."So I think the handwriting at least among the public in Israel is on the wall which suggests history will reject the colonial enterprise sooner or later," Lamb stressed.
He said CIA, in its report, alludes to the unexpectedly quick fall of the apartheid government in South Africa and recalls the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, suggesting the end to the dream of an 'Israeli land' would happen 'way sooner' than later.
The study further predicts the return of over one and a half million Israelis to Russia and other parts of Europe, and denotes a decline in Israeli births whereas a rise in the Palestinian population.Lamb said given the Israeli conduct toward the Palestinians and the Gaza strip in particular, the American public which has been voicing its protest against Tel Aviv's measures in the last 25 years may 'not take it anymore'.
Some members of the US Senate Intelligence Committee have been informed of the report.
Courtesy: Press TV
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