Guest Archangel Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 "Canada's foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, today said [it] would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured," Reuters reports: Both nations expressed unhappiness after it emerged that they had been listed in a document that formed part of a training course manual on torture awareness given to Canadian diplomats. . . . Under ''definition of torture'' the document lists US interrogation techniques such as forced nudity, isolation, sleep deprivation and blindfolding prisoners. As an aside, note that Reuters, which is careful not to use the word terrorism outside scare quotes, has no objection to using torture as if it were a regular, unloaded word. But also, blindfolding is torture? We can see where one can at least make an argument that, say, waterboarding is, but if blindfolding is torture, what isn't? Archangel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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