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There is something wrong if your gut is not churned by this

And it’s a Grave Breach under the Geneva Conventions (Articles 50, 51, 130, 147, and the Additional Protocol l of 1977 (Art. 11 and Art. 85), specifically the “unlawful deportation or transfer” or “unlawful confinement” of protected persons.

What is it the American Terror Warriors do to commit these Grave Breaches? “They picked up the wrong people” then,

the Rendition Group follow[s] a simple but standard procedure: Dressed head to toe in black, including masks, they blindfold and cut the clothes off their new captives, then administer an enema and sleeping drugs. They outfit detainees in a diaper and jumpsuit for what can be a day-long trip. Their destinations: either a detention facility operated by cooperative countries in the Middle East and Central Asia, including Afghanistan, or one of the CIA’s own covert prisons — referred to in classified documents as “black sites,” which at various times have been operated in eight countries, including several in Eastern Europe.

Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake: German Citizen Released After Months in ‘Rendition’

Dana Priest, Washington Post; Sunday, December 4, 2005; Page A01

For Condoleezza Rice to claim this all “saves lives” is frankly monstrous. Maximum lives — American as well as those of citizens of other countries who have had to endure this American savagery will be saved if the architects of these vile policies — including Ms. Rice –stand before an international tribunal and are held responsible for these crimes.

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