Thursday, June 24, 2004
Has Egypt been watching the TV reports on the US' behaviour at Abu Ghraib and taking notes? In what may be the first concrete example of the effects of the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal in Iraq, lawyers and human rights groups in Egypt, a major U.S. ally in the Middle East, say that local police are increasingly resorting to new torture tactics similar to those used by U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
The phrase 'major U.S. ally in the Middle East' ensures that if this were true then the US administration aren't going to do anything about Egypt's human rights record, no regime change for them despite evidence of torture or prosecuting people for being gay. Mind you, that's probably giving Dubya ideas.
The phrase 'major U.S. ally in the Middle East' ensures that if this were true then the US administration aren't going to do anything about Egypt's human rights record, no regime change for them despite evidence of torture or prosecuting people for being gay. Mind you, that's probably giving Dubya ideas.
