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[Mail Picture] http://www.picasa.com/ http://www.irfanview.com/ Mildly cloudy: Up 5:45, a bit loss of sleep. 10-1pm continue cleaning to moving my original table around to face backyard window, Jyun's table and documents. Emails to some topics from AlterNet left until now after rather quick lunch at 2:37pm. No news from mom. Too complicated so give up topics for the time being. Jyun back, to Kinko's and correct twice then fax, home 5:50-10pm clean lower counter under computer table. Only a few emails & topics here. Mom tel B. is almost gone, then our children should go too. Very sleepy, Jyun outside, bed 2:20! 0) Torture from the USA: (1) "Land of the Detained", by Dan Frosch, AlterNet. Posted May 5, 2005: ""Wolff Marsan sold a $20 bag of coke to an undercover cop. He was deported, jailed and tortured in Haiti, escaped, and now faces deportation a second time. His story illustrates the arbitrary cruelty of the immigrant deportation process."" http://www.alternet.org/rights/21929/ "" Another Thursday night at the Hudson County Correctional Center in northern New Jersey and everyone knows the routine. It starts with the line of people--overwhelmingly black and Hispanic--snaking out of the jail's front doors all waiting for an hour to clear the one metal detector. Then there's the half hour stuffed into a drab waiting room, before visitors are brought in shifts to an adjacent series of booths where inmates and loved ones laugh and cry over a phone for 30 minutes--separated by a thick glass partition clouded with years' worth of dust and parting kisses. "" (2) "Inside Guantanamo", by Amy Goodman [[ " Amy Goodman is the host of the nationally syndicated radio news program "Democracy Now!" ]], AlterNet. Posted May 5, 2005: ""Former army sergeant Erik Saar served as a translator at Guantanamo Bay. What he witnessed included sexual abuse, mock interrogations, the use of dogs, and worse."" http://www.alternet.org/rights/21936/ "" We begin today by continuing our extensive look into the abuse and outright torture of prisoners held by the U.S. government since the onset of the so-called war on terror. Three years ago, most people in this country or around the world had never heard of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba or the Abu Ghraib prison, two places that have now become global symbols of the U.S. war on terror. Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the breaking of the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. To date, no senior military officials have been held accountable for the systematic abuse of prisoners held by the U.S. military. Lawyers for the rank-and-file soldiers who have been prosecuted say that their clients are cogs in a much bigger wheel that goes higher up the chain of command. This weekend, The New York Times reported on a high-level military investigation into accusations of detainee abuse at the Guantanamo Prison camp. While its findings fall far short in describing the extent of the abuse that human rights groups and released prisoners allege are taking place there, it did reveal some significant details. It concluded that several prisoners were mistreated or humiliated, perhaps illegally, as a result of efforts to devise innovative methods to gain information. The report on the investigation is still a few weeks from being completed and released. The Times says it will deal with accounts by FBI agents who complained after witnessing detainees subjected to several forms of harsh treatment. The FBI agents wrote in memorandums that were never meant to be disclosed publicly that they had seen female interrogators forcibly squeeze male prisoners' genitals, and that they had witnessed other detainees stripped and shackled low to the floor for many hours. This comes as a former U.S army linguist who worked as an Arabic translator at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo is speaking out. Erik Saar was stationed at the camp from December 2002 to June 2003. He has just written a new book called Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo, in which he describes a wide range of practices and techniques used by U.S. military officers at Guantanamo and condoned by senior officers. Erik Saar joins us today in our Boston studio. ""