Bush Administration Planning $60 Million Dollar Afghan Prison

By Bob Kendall

Eric Schmitt and Tim Golden of the New York Times revealed the latest Bush administration plan for a larger prison for suspected terrorists.

A New York Times syndicated article appeared in the May 17 Seattle Times containing these revealing facts:

"The Pentagon is proceeding with plans to build a new 40-acre detention-complex on the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan.

"Officials (of the Pentagon) said in a stark acknowledgement that the United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come."

The administration recognized the three presidential candidates - McCain, Obama and Clinton have indicated they most likely would close the Guantanamo, Cuba prison.  

Therefore it appears this has triggered Bush to act hastily to transfer Guantanamo prisoners to a new $60 million prison the Pentagon is rushing to build in Afghanistan.

The lawyer who designed the U.S. torture policy is the son of immigrants from South Korea.  His legal opinion has justified U.S. interrogators using techniques many consider nothing short of torture.  

"Water boarding" is the name designated to describe shoving a suspected terrorist under water, holding him there, creating the horrifying sensation of drowning.  In some cases electrical jolts were added to the drowning sensation.

Israel abandoned interrogation torture tactics, recognizing that reliable information cannot be obtained this way.

If a human being is subjected to a life threatening situation, like thinking he will drown and die, while suffering electrical jolts, he might say anything to save his life.

It would be interesting if John Yoo, whose "torture memo" set this chain of torture events into motion could list every nation in the world submitting terrorist suspects (so called) to his approved U.S. torture menu specialties, he should be asked this question:

Does South Korea, where your parents came from, torture suspected terrorists?

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