{"id":1494,"date":"2005-06-24T14:27:02","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T18:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2005-06-24T14:27:02","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T18:27:02","slug":"un-source-us-acknowledges-torture-at-gitmo-iraq-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"UN SOURCE: U.S. Acknowledges Torture at Gitmo, Iraq &#038; Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It must be Friday. Just <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/unustortureguantanamo;_ylt=AlQvZ5a7.s2_37thBTBnSlKWwvIE;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NGRzMjRtBHNlYwMxNjk5\" target=\"_blank\">breaking from the AFP&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Washington has for the first time acknowledged to the UN that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistand and Iraq, a UN source said. <\/p>\n<p>The acknowledgement was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee against Torture, said a member of the ten-person panel, speaking on on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The US mission to the UN institutions in Geneva was unavailable for comment on the report late Friday..<\/p>\n<p>UN sources said it was the first time the world body has received such a frank statement on torture from US authorities.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile&#8230;Dick Cheney remains in Fantasy Land and wants us to know that there&#8217;s nothing to worry about, since Gitmo prisoners are <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/20050624\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/cheney_guantanamo_1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;well fed&#8221; and &#8220;living in the tropics&#8221;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We can only hope that Mr. Cheney finds himself taking advantage of such enjoyable digs himself some day.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Hat tip Desi for the usual keen Friday eye!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be Friday. Just breaking from the AFP&#8230; Washington has for the first time acknowledged to the UN that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistand and Iraq, a UN source said. The acknowledgement was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee against Torture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}