Cross off Jordan
So what do they expect? Roses?
Fuck Jordan. Jordan is not a democracy. It is a hereditary patriachal dictatorship. An absolutist totalitarian state that practises torture. It needs killing. It's shitty little King needs killing.
Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate, or GID, has surpassed Israel's Mossad as America's most effective allied counter-terrorism agency in the Middle East. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, its cooperation with the CIA has grown even closer.Jordan's intelligence partnership with the U.S. is so close, in fact, that the CIA has had technical personnel "virtually embedded" at GID headquarters, said a former CIA official in the Middle East. One former CIA official said he was allowed to roam the halls of the GID unescorted.
Most recently, Jordan has emerged as a hub for "extraordinary renditions," the controversial, covert transfer of suspected extremists from U.S. custody to foreign intelligence agencies.
GID personnel are characterized as highly capable interrogators by Frank Anderson, a former CIA Middle East division chief. "They're going to get more information [from a terrorism suspect] because they're going to know his language, his culture, his associates — and more about the network he belongs to," he said.
But in two previously undisclosed cases, citizens of Yemen say they were detained in Pakistan and Afghanistan, then transported to Jordan and held by the GID, their lawyers said. One of the detainees said he was tortured by the Jordanian service and then handed back to American authorities.
The State Department praised Jordan for combating terrorism in one report this year and accused it of human rights abuses in another.
The latter report is particularly sensitive as the Bush administration justifies its war in Iraq, in part, as an effort to bring democracy to the Middle East. Washington's intelligence partner in Jordan has been criticized for its role in the human rights violations and in political repression.
Jordan’s General Intelligence Department, prisons and ordinary police stations all have known records of abuse.
There is still torture in Jordan, especially with regard to security suspects.
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/08/16/jordan11628.htm
What is all this bullshit about spreading democracy in the region?
For pictures of burning palaces and links to international anti-monarchist sites see
http://www.throneout.com/
The Anglo-sphere does not protect me from the terrorists - the Anglo-sphere ARE the terrorists.
Fuck Jordan. Jordan is not a democracy. It is a hereditary patriachal dictatorship. An absolutist totalitarian state that practises torture. It needs killing. It's shitty little King needs killing.
Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate, or GID, has surpassed Israel's Mossad as America's most effective allied counter-terrorism agency in the Middle East. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, its cooperation with the CIA has grown even closer.Jordan's intelligence partnership with the U.S. is so close, in fact, that the CIA has had technical personnel "virtually embedded" at GID headquarters, said a former CIA official in the Middle East. One former CIA official said he was allowed to roam the halls of the GID unescorted.
Most recently, Jordan has emerged as a hub for "extraordinary renditions," the controversial, covert transfer of suspected extremists from U.S. custody to foreign intelligence agencies.
GID personnel are characterized as highly capable interrogators by Frank Anderson, a former CIA Middle East division chief. "They're going to get more information [from a terrorism suspect] because they're going to know his language, his culture, his associates — and more about the network he belongs to," he said.
But in two previously undisclosed cases, citizens of Yemen say they were detained in Pakistan and Afghanistan, then transported to Jordan and held by the GID, their lawyers said. One of the detainees said he was tortured by the Jordanian service and then handed back to American authorities.
The State Department praised Jordan for combating terrorism in one report this year and accused it of human rights abuses in another.
The latter report is particularly sensitive as the Bush administration justifies its war in Iraq, in part, as an effort to bring democracy to the Middle East. Washington's intelligence partner in Jordan has been criticized for its role in the human rights violations and in political repression.
Jordan’s General Intelligence Department, prisons and ordinary police stations all have known records of abuse.
There is still torture in Jordan, especially with regard to security suspects.
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/08/16/jordan11628.htm
What is all this bullshit about spreading democracy in the region?
For pictures of burning palaces and links to international anti-monarchist sites see
http://www.throneout.com/
The Anglo-sphere does not protect me from the terrorists - the Anglo-sphere ARE the terrorists.
posted by professor rat at 9:52 PM
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