US Court: Muslims aren't people, torture is fine.

Now just imagine if an American was treated this way in Iran!!

In Voiding Suit, Appellate Court Says Torture Is To Be Expected By Greg Gordon McClatchy Newspapers

Friday 11 January 2008

Washington - A federal appeals court Friday threw out a suit by four
British Muslims who allege that they were tortured and subjected to
religious abuse in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a
ruling that exonerated 11 present and former senior Pentagon officials.

It appeared to be the first time that a federal appellate court has
ruled on the legality of the harsh interrogation tactics that U.S.
intelligence officers and military personnel have used on suspected
terrorists held outside the United States since the terrorist attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001.

The detainees allege that they were held in stress positions,
interrogated for sessions lasting 24 hours, intimidated with dogs and
isolated in darkness and that their beards were shaved.

The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit ruled that the detainees captured in Afghanistan aren't
recognized as "persons" under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
because they were aliens held outside the United States. The Religious
Freedom Act prohibits the government from "substantially burdening a
person's religion."

The court rejected other claims on the grounds that then-Attorney
General John Ashcroft had certified that the military officials were
acting within the scope of their jobs when they authorized the tactics,
and that such tactics were "foreseeable."

"It was foreseeable that conduct that would ordinarily be indisputably
`seriously criminal' would be implemented by military officials
responsible for detaining and interrogating suspected enemy combatants,"
Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson wrote in the court's main opinion.

Judge Janice Rogers Brown dissented with parts of the opinion, saying
that "it leaves us with the unfortunate and quite dubious distinction of
being the only court to declare those held at Guantanamo are not
`person(s).'

'`This is a most regrettable holding in a case where plaintiffs have
alleged high-level U.S. government officials treated them as less than
human," Brown wrote.

Comments

[Cyrus]

"They" who?
Anyway according to the US Attorney General Gonzales, "torture" only means inflicting pain like chopping off a body part. Short of that, its not "torture". How's them apples?

[winston]

Did they not torture Americans in Iran for 444 days? Get a life, dude!