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Nya citat 2005-07-24
It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed ective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost. There are no rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of "fair play" must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.
The Doolittle Report, witten by a 1954 White House commission 
Subject is brought into the facility blindfolded and handcuffed and should remain so during the entire processing ... Subject is completely stripped and told to take a shower. Blindfold remains in place while showering and guard watches throughout. Subject is given a thorough medical examination, including all body cavities.
CIA, "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual - 1983"
The following are the principal coercive techniques of interrogation: arrest, detention, deprivation of sensory stimuli through solitary confinement or similar methods, threats and fear, debility, pain, heightened suggestibility and hypnosis, narcosis, and induced egression.
CIA, "KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation - July 1963"
Allowing a subject to receive carefully selected letters from home can help create an effect desired by the 'questioner'; for example, the subject may get the idea that his relatives are under duress or suffering. A suggestion at the proper time that his cooperation or confession can help protect the innocent may be effective.
CIA, "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual - 1983"
[Terrorism:] the unlawful use of force or violence committed by a group or individual, who has some connection to a foreign power or whose activities transcend nationa1 boundaries, against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
FBI definition of terrorism
Specific tasks will be assigned to others, in order to create a 'martyr' for the cause, taking the demonstrators to a confrontation with the authorities, in order to bring about uprisings or shootings, which will cause the death of one or more persons, who would become the martyrs, a situation that should be made use of immediately against the regime, in order to create greater conflicts.
CIA, "Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare", 1984, a manual designed for the US-backed Contra forces in Nicaragua
[In producing and disseminating this manual, the United States] encouraged the commission ... of acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law [including the Geneva Conventions of 1949].
The World Court on the CIA manual "Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare" from 1984, used by the Contras fighting in Nicaragua
Shock Troops. These men should be equipped with weapons knives, razors, chains, clubs, bludgeons) and should march slightly behind the innocent and gullible participants.
CIA, "Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare", 1984, a manual designed for the US-backed Contra forces in Nicaragua
It is possible to neutralize carefully selected and planned targets, such as court judges, mesta judges [justices of the peace], police and State Security officials, CDS [Sandinista Defense Committees] chiefs, etc.
CIA, "Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare", 1984, a manual designed for the US-backed Contra forces in Nicaragua
When terrorists attack, they're terrorizing. When we attack, we're retaliating. When they respond to our retaliation with further attacks, they're terrorizing again. When we respond with further attacks, we're retaliating again.
Norman Solomon
We are left on our own to cope with the remnants of the Afghan war, which include arms smuggling ... drugs and ... [religious] zealots who were leaders at the time of the Afghan war.
Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan Prime Minister, 1996, on the results of Pakistans cooperation with the U.S. in supporting the Afghan resistance against Soviet occupation
You can't plug billions of dollars into an anti-Communist jihad, accept participation from all over the world and ignore the consequences. But we did. Our objectives weren't peace and grooviness in Afghanistan. Our objective was killing Commies and getting the Russians out.
US diplomat in Pakistan in 1996
Your government participated in creating a monster
Algerian sociologist on the U.S. support to islamic fundamentalist resistance in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation
I have seen no evidence in my 24 years in Congress of one instance where because of American military involvement with another military that the Americans have stopped that foreign army from carrying out itrodties against their own people. No evidence, none.
Senator Tom Harkin (D.-Iowa), 1999
The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect.
Motto of Dan Mitrione, an employee of the US Office of Public Safety, who taught the Uruguay regime more efficient methods of torture in the late 1960s
The first jolt was so bad I just wanted to die.
Goria Esperanza Reyes, speaking of her torture in Honduras, where electric wires were attached to her breasts and vagina
All of the victims were black or Latino, so far as we've seen, and the people who were doing the torturing were white officers.
Attorney on the case of the systematic torture used by Chicago police officers between 1973 and 1986
No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for torture.
The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Article 2, S2
They always asked to be killed. Torture is worse than death.
José Barrera, Honduran torturer
...for encouraging the success of democratic processes in Honduras.
The stated reason why the Reagan administration awarded Gen. Gustavo Alvarez Martinez the Legion of Merit in 1983. Alvarez was the director of Battalion 316, which kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of Honduran citizens.
When you get what you want, and I always get it, it may be good to prolong the session a little to apply another softeningup. Not to extract information now, but only as a political measure, to create a healthy fear of meddling in subversive activities.
Dan Mitrione, an employee of the US Office of Public Safety in Uruguay in the late 1960s
[US police forces have been guilty of] violating international human rights standards through a pattern of unchecked excessive force amounting to torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
Amnesty International
Hundreds of prisoners have listened to the little speech given by Inspector Basil Lambrou, who sits behind his desk which displays the red, white, and blue clasped-hand symbol of American aid. He tries to show the prisoner the absolute futility of resistance: "You make yourself ridiculous by thinking you can do anything. The world is divided in two. There are the communists on that side and on this side the free world. The Russians and the Americans, no one else. What are we? Americans. Behind me there is the government, behind the government is NATO, behind NATO is the U.S. You can't fight us, we are Americans.
James Becket, an attorney sent to Greece by Amnesty International, 1969
Torture might last a short time, but the person will never he the same.
Amnesty International report
I belonged to a squad of twelve. We devoted ourselves to torture, and to finding people whom we were told were guerrillas. I was trained in Panama for nine months by the [unintelligible] of the United States for anti-guerrilla warfare. Part of the time we were instructed about torture.
Former member of the El Salvador National Guard, testifying in a 1986 British television documentary
American policy on the torture question as expressed in official statements and official testimony has been to deny it where possible and minimize it where denial was not possible. This policy flowed naturally from general support for the military regime.
Amnesty International on the U.S. position on the torture in Greece
- I headed for the bedroom to get dressed, but Medine ... went straight to the window and jumped.
- My daughter, you see, preferred death to being tortured once again.
Medine's younger sister and mother, about the day in July 1999 when Turkish police broke into their home to take the two sisters in for questioning. Medine was 14 years old, and Kurdish.
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