US attacks UN official on 'jails' (BBC News)

Thursday, 8 December 2005, 02:56 GMT

US attacks UN official on 'jails'

Washington has rebuked UN human rights commissioner Louise Arbour for criticising its anti-terror tactics as the row alleged secret jails goes on.

Ms Arbour said reports the US was using secret overseas sites to interrogate suspects harmed its moral authority and she wanted to inspect any such centres. The US said it was inappropriate and illegitimate for her to question US conduct on the basis of media reports.

The issue is dogging a European tour by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.She will meet Nato foreign ministers on Thursday for formal talks but at a dinner on Wednesday the jails allegation reportedly already surfaced.

"There were a number of frank interventions, always respectful of Condoleezza Rice as a person," a source briefed on the dinner was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying. On Wednesday, Ms Rice said American interrogators were bound by an international convention banning the use of torture, regardless of whether they were working in the US or abroad.

'Second-guessing'

Ms Arbour, a former Canadian Supreme Court justice, told reporters in New York on Wednesday that the global ban on torture was becoming a casualty of the US-led "war on terror". She singled out the reported US policies of sending terror suspects to other countries and holding prisoners in secret detention.

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" It was inappropriate and illegitimate for an international civil servant
to second-guess the conduct that we're engaged in
the war on terror,
with nothing more as evidence
than what she reads in the newspapers".

So, would that make Bolton an "international civil servant" too?:evilgrin:

such a bomb at one of his fundraisers? Not.

they're more like shit-flinging monkeys everyday. devolution in action.

Well, yeah, the reports are true, but you made a lucky guess! So there!

Dolton is real confused if he thinks he can shut this woman up.

I'd love to see a flare up between him and a strong woman because you just know the guy hates women.

I'm willing to wager she can handle the likes of an impotent twit like Dolton.

against Milosevic and was responsible for him being on trial at the Hague. She isn't going to back off for anyone, especially someone like Bolton.

Who knew? I thought she was a member of the Bush administration.

"There were a number of frank interventions, always respectful of Condoleezza Rice as a person...".

in denial of their hurtful destructive behavior on themselves or other people. (alcohol, crime, drugs, or abuse i.e.)
and they had an intervention
in order to confront the person of said behavior.

Strange wording,
which I thought meant something on that level

:evilfrown:

Now that you point it out, that's exactly what it sounds like.

how predictable

America's ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, said Ms Rice had already addressed the issue and he roundly criticised Ms Arbour.

It was, he said, "inappropriate and illegitimate for an international civil servant to second-guess the conduct that we're engaged in the war on terror, with nothing more as evidence than what she reads in the newspapers".

Isn't that the whole point of an investigation; to stop the second-guessing with nothing more as evidence than what is read in the newspapers?

PuhLEEEEEEEEEEASE

Oooh look someone has an actual media with real journalists and all

it's all just opinions anyway!

/$#&tard freeper