Sunday, February 13, 2005
Torture, Continued
Here is still more evidence that Abu Ghraib was just an “isolated incident:”
Mamdouh Habib still has a bruise on his lower back. He says it is a sign of the beatings he endured in a prison in Egypt. Interrogators there put out cigarettes on his chest, he says, and he lifts his shirt to show the marks. He says he got the dark spot on his forehead when Americans hit his head against the floor at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
I guess, of course, that characterization depends on what the definition of “isolated” is. I’m not sure that Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and many other parts of the world quite qualify as “isolated,” however.
