Stripped of Natural Rights

A torture house with mass graves was discovered on December 8th, 1007. The torture chamber was found fully equipped with and electrical torture device, rubber hoses, boxing gloves, ski masks, barbed wire, blood covered swords and knives, mines, pipe bombs, rocket-propelled grenades, mortar tubes and rounds and 130 pounds of homemade explosives. There was evidence of murder, torture, and intimidation against local villagers found throughout the area. Eventually, 26 unidentified bodies were dug up from a mass graveyard next to what seemed to be an execution site since some bodies had their hands tied behind their backs. The identification of the victims is virtually impossible since their bodies were mutilated and advanced in the stages of natural decomposition. The finding of a bullet-riddled police car nearby does imply that some of the victims could have been Iraqi police. The area had been known to occupy Al Qaeda groups.

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After stripping certain individuals of numerous rights, the CIA has detained many people without due process at Guantanamo Bay. One of the detainees claims that the CIA tortured him severely after he was taken into custody in 2003. Since the court did not require the preservation of evidence, “there is substantial risk that the torture evidence will disappear”, thus affecting the detainee’s challenge to his detention. Already the CIA claims that it had stopped videotaping by 2002, which means videotapes of the detainee’s torture could not have existed. The CIA also claims that it does not torture detainees because “ the United States does not conduct or condone torture”. Did the torture ever actually take place? Perhaps the detainee made up the whole story as delusional as he was since he mysteriously suffers from “severe physical and psychological trauma” after stepping out of the CIA prisons. He also seems to think that he “admitted anything his interrogators demanded of him, regardless of truth, in order to end his suffering”.
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