mercoledì 20 agosto 2014

The secret prisons

They called him "Dusty" (dusty) and has long been one of the most powerful men in the American secret services. A prophetic name for Kyle D. Foggo, the CIA's number three long, that in the dust, in fact, has come to fall through because of a corruption scandal.
Dusty, having earned promotion on the field for directing the construction of three secret prisons in Eastern Europe and Morocco became "caught" taking bribes in all details.
In exchange for travel in fabulous hotels and other favors, in fact, Foggo CIA has hijacked some purchases to the company of an old friend, Brent Wilkins, who sold materials at inflated prices.
Dusty, is currently in prison, and just be there, he started telling details secret and not exactly edifying secret prisons.
In the first place these prisons (one in Morocco, one near Budapest, and the third in another country of the former Warsaw Pact), were designed to accommodate a few prisoners, all rigorously kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. And now the air was not much better: the detainees were covered with black masks similar to those slopes to prevent not only to communicate but also to recognize.
From the architectural point of view the prisons have been built in such a way as to appear identical to disorient the prisoners, and not let him know where they were.
Confused then, the story about the construction of cells and interrogation rooms. Everything would have been thought through a system without edges and made of flexible padding and flooring, to prevent injury to detainees during interrogation despite the beatings.
Practices to which must be added the waterboarding, or simulated drowning, repeatedly denounced by Amnesty International as a recurrent practice used by the United States to torture terrorists of Al-Qaeda.
The secret prisons, however, were not only the three built by Foggo. According to the New York Times, there were also in the Middle East, in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Not forgetting the all too familiar Guantanamo prison, dubbed Strawberry Fields, (from the Beatles song), to evoke the "forever" chorus: those who arrived in the prison, they loved to joke CIA officials, we would stay forever.

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