torture
02/04/2008 > USA
Torture is "self-defense" according to the Pentagon
In 2003 the U.S. Justice Department sent a memo to the Pentagon in which it conceived torture as a "self-defense" for the purpose of interrogating an "enemy combatant". An Iraqi deputy and a French colonel specialised in the Algerian War react to the document, declassified yesterday and published here in full. Read more...
The contributors
25/02/2008 > UNITED STATES
Don’t try this at home: waterboarding
Controversy over the US stance on the interrogation method called waterboarding, considered by many as torture, has caused bloggers to try out the method for themselves. See the videos here…
Filmed by Hameed Ahmed Farooquiat at an anti-war march in Washington
on Jan. 27 last year

















