UN Calls on Al Qaeda to Open Detention Facility
Making fun of news that’s already a joke, Scott Ott reports:
(2006-05-20) — A day after releasing a report accusing the United States of torture, and demanding closure of its terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the United Nations anti-torture panel called on Al Qaeda to “open a detention facility anywhere, hold prisoners for years without charges, and subject them to controversial interrogation techniques.â€
“The U.S. is a super power that has violated the 1984 Convention Against Torture,†said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, “But Al Qaeda is still is a developing power, so we must have different expectations and goals for Mr. Bin Laden.â€
The panel’s report laid out a process designed to move al Qaeda in “baby steps†from its current practice of beheading and blowing up innocent civilians, to taking them prisoner and torturing them, to eventually running a clean, safe, modern prisoner-of-war camp in full compliance with the United Nations protocols.
Meanwhile, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the Pentagon is considering a plan to transfer its 460 ‘Gitmo’ detainees to the U.N., “where a group of international thugs, still awaiting charges, would not attract so much attention.â€
UPDATE:
This comes on the heels of the U.N. voting on new members to its “Human Rights Council.” Now there’s something else to laugh at.
GatewayPundit provides the coverage.
May 20th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
I stopped reading when the reporter mentioned that some prisoners attempted suicide by “hoarding” their anti-anxiety medications and taking them all at once. Gosh, I guess the doctors didn’t want them to be so anxious about being tortured.