{"id":73217,"date":"2014-12-11T05:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=73217"},"modified":"2014-12-10T22:09:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T22:09:47","slug":"afghanistan-decries-cia-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=73217","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan decries CIA ‘violations’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afghan President Asraf Ghani has said the CIA’s brutal interrogation programme “violated all accepted norms of human rights in the world”.<\/p>\n

He is among many world leaders condemning how the agency imprisoned and questioned al-Qaeda suspects.<\/p>\n

A US Senate report on the programme has said the harsh methods did not lead to unique intelligence that foiled plots.<\/p>\n

The report also concluded the agency misled politicians and public about the 2001-2007 programme.<\/p>\n

The CIA has defended its actions in the years after the 9\/11 attacks on the US, saying they saved lives.<\/p>\n

And President Barack Obama has said it was now time to move on, despite acknowledging some of the CIA’s actions amounted to torture.<\/p>\n

None of the countries where the prisons were located has been identified in the report, but several countries suspected to have hosted sites reacted strongly to the publication.<\/p>\n

In a press conference on Wednesday, Mr Ghani, who became president in September, called the report “shocking”.<\/p>\n

“There is no justification for such acts and human torturing in the world.”<\/p>\n

He vowed to investigate how many Afghans had suffered abuse at US detention centres.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, US military officials said the final prisoners had left Parwan Detention Center, bringing to an end the US operation of any prisons in the country after more than a decade of war.<\/p>\n

Poland’s former president has publicly acknowledged for the first time his country hosted a secret CIA prison.<\/p>\n

Aleksander Kwasniewski said that he put pressure on the US to end brutal interrogations at the prison in 2003.<\/p>\n

“I told Bush that this co-operation must end and it did end,” Mr Kwasniewski told local media.<\/p>\n

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Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius called on the US to say whether CIA used his country to interrogate prisoners.<\/p>\n

A previous Lithuanian investigation found the CIA set up and ran a facility near the country’s capital but could not determine if prisoners were held there.<\/p>\n

Germany’s foreign minister also criticised US actions on Wednesday in the Bild newspaper, saying “what was then considered right and done in the fight against Islamist terrorism was unacceptable and a serious mistake”.<\/p>\n

But Frank-Walter Steinmeier praised Mr Obama for releasing the information, calling it a clear break with his predecessor.<\/p>\n

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Ben Emmerson said that senior officials from the administration of George W Bush who planned and sanctioned crimes must be prosecuted, as well as CIA and US government officials responsible for torture such as waterboarding.<\/p>\n

“As a matter of international law, the US is legally obliged to bring those responsible to justice,” Mr Emmerson said in a statement made from Geneva.<\/p>\n

And Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth said that the CIA’s actions were criminal “and can never be justified”.<\/p>\n

\"Senator<\/div>\n
John McCain said that the abuse of prisoners produced more bad than good intelligence<\/div>\n

Correspondents say that the chances of prosecuting members of the Bush administration are unlikely.<\/p>\n

The US justice department has said that it has already pursued two investigations into mistreatment of detainees since 2000 and concluded that the evidence was not sufficient to obtain a conviction.<\/p>\n

Mr Obama said on Tuesday that he hoped that the publication of the report would “help us leave these techniques where they belong – in the past”.<\/p>\n

He banned harsh interrogation techniques after taking office in 2009.<\/p>\n

Some Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee released a minority report, accusing the Senate report of having a “flawed analytical methodology”, “inadequate objectivity” and “political considerations”.<\/p>\n

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Barack Obama said some of the techniques amounted to torture<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Influential Republican Senator John McCain, who was once held as a prisoner of war, argued that torture “rarely yields credible information”.<\/p>\n

The CIA has argued that the interrogations had helped save lives.<\/p>\n

“The intelligence gained from the programme was critical to our understanding of al-Qaeda and continues to inform our counterterrorism efforts to this day,” director John Brennan said.<\/p>\n

However, the CIA also acknowledged mistakes in the programme, which was known internally as Rendition, Detention and Interrogation and took place from 2002-07.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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