"confessin" the "blues":
MM"Were those your words?"
"Yes," he answered.
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Britain's efforts to secure the release of fifteen sailors detained in Iran bog down amidst protests and televised "confessions."
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The British government has vehemently denied that its personnel entered Iranian waters, and has said the confessions appear coerced.
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Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi of Yemeni descent, is the second "high value" detainee to contend he was tortured while being held in secret CIA prisons prior to transfer to the detention site in Cuba last September.
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A British official has confirmed that work is going on "behind the scenes"
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All 15 UK personnel 'confess', claims Iran
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...what it said were two of the 15 captured British sailors, admitting they had entered Iranian waters
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British officials have questioned the conditions under which the apparent confessions have been made
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The Pentagon released a transcript yesterday according to which Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, long believed to be the man behind the Sept. 11 attacks, confessed at a military hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba this past Saturday.
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Iran said footage of the "confessions" would not be broadcast
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Mohammed is being held in a secret detention system run by the CIA after being moved from secret CIA prisons to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay last year
Attacks Mohammed confessed in range from the suicide hijackings of Sept. 11, 2001 - which killed nearly 3,000 - to a 2002 shooting on an island off Kuwait that killed a U.S. Marine and the 1993 World Trade Center truck bombing in which six people died.
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Iranian media reports said footage of the "confessions" would not be broadcast, following unspecified "positive changes"
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A detainee accused of being Al Qaeda's Persian Gulf operations chief said in court that his U.S. captors tortured him for years and forced him to falsely confess to the bombing of the U.S. destroyer Cole and to many other terrorist plots, according to a Pentagon transcript released Friday.
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...its decision to parade them before the cameras for forced confessions and "apologies."
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Leurs "témoignages" n'etaient pas audibles, mais selon la television, ils ont "avoue" avoir penetre dans les eaux iraniennes en venant du cote de l'Irak
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Mohammed said he also thought about assassinating former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and planned bombings of buildings such as the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Empire State Building in New York and Big Ben in London, England.
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A suspect in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen said he was tortured into admitting responsibility for that attack and others, according to a hearing transcript the Pentagon released Friday.
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Last week [mid March] senior al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed reportedly confessed during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) at the US prison in the US Naval Station, Guantanamo, Cuba to having planned virtually every al-Qaeda attack on the United States. But during the military tribunal proceedings, he also said he was tortured during his four year confinement in CIA secret prisons. Senators Levin and Graham viewed the Guantanamo proceedings over a special video link into the US Senate. Afterwards, Senator Levin said that Sheikh Mohammed’s allegations of torture by US officials must be investigated.
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Iranian television last night showed "confessions" of two of the 15 British sailors and marines held in Iran, heightening tensions between the two nations and drawing a rebuke from officials in London
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Two weeks after Khalid Mohammed confessed to everything, right back to hiding Lord Lucan, comes the news that David Hicks, the only Australian in Guantanamo Bay, has pleaded guilty to charges of assisting al-Qaida in terrorist operations.
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Britain's delicate diplomatic efforts were set back by U.S. President George W. Bush, who made a statement Saturday in which he characterized the imprisoned sailors as "hostages" - a phrase that Britain has been carefully avoiding to prevent the crisis from becoming a broader political or military conflict
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Despite the earlier rulings, none of the roughly 385 detainees has yet had a hearing in a civilian court challenging his detention because the administration has moved aggressively to limit the legal rights of prisoners it has labeled as enemy combatants.
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Torture and other abuses against detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq were authorized and routine, even after the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal, according to new accounts from soldiers in a Human Rights Watch report released today. The new report, containing first-hand accounts by U.S. military personnel interviewed by Human Rights Watch, details detainee abuses at an off-limits facility at Baghdad airport and at other detention centers throughout Iraq.
