Pakistanis torture 2 American citizens for months, FBI helps

[mburbank]

The Pakistani Government siezed two Pakistani American citizens living in Pakistan, kept them incommunicado for almost a year, denied they held them and tortured them regularly.

The FBI participated in interogation on several occasions and not only did not offer to enforce the captives rights as American citizens, it threatened to send them to Guantanamo if they did not cooperate with their captors. During this time the State department denied any knowledge of the whereabouts of these 'missing persons'.

Only through the agitation of Human Rights Watch where they recently released.

I've said this before, I'll say it again. If this can happen to American citizens, both abroad and at home (Jose Padilla has yet to be charged or produced) we're in deep shit. And if this is happening to American citizens, what do you suppose we are doing to people who are not our citizens?

The recently uncovered case of an Afghani cab driver beaten and hung from the cieling of his cell untill he died at a point where the majority of his interogators had concluded he was innocent springs to mind.

[AngPur]

When Iran holds our people against our will, we get pissed.

When an alleged ally does it and our own FBI helps, we turn a blind eye.

This is frightening.

[Ant10708]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4576767.stm