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[ Presenting plain-text part of multi-format email ] The Fourth Geneva Convention on Human Rights is ignored by the US and Israel unless it suits their political purposes. Hooding is standard practice by the US's Israeli clients on detainees, arrestees and during torture. Hoods (usually filthy dirty ones, frequently reeking of urine and/or vomit) or the subject's shirt pulled up and tightly wrapped around their Arab victim's head is standard practice to intimidate and humiliate the Arabs (it is never used on Israeli Jews). Deprivation of sight, ear shattering noises, forced painful positions, denial of food, water and toilet are the lessor of Israel's standard torture techniques. "Hooding," i.e. sensory deprivation techniques were intensely studied by the CIA in an experimental "mind control" and "mind-altering" clinic they operated in Canada a few decades ago (see "Journey into Madness" by Gordon Thomas). The CIA agent who died in Beirut, Lebanon, while in custody of kidnappers (blowback of the U.S.-backed Israeli invasion, siege of Beirut and war against Lebanon) was the U.S.'s top expert in sensory deprivation/torture. Some of the fruits of these studies are currently being utilized against the "unlawful combatants" in the U.S. cages in Panama. Look for the American Occupiers of Bush's "West Bank and Gaza Strip" (aka Iraq) to duplicate many of the Israeli practices of mass arrests and imprisonments, population relocations, and brutal military oppresssion during the coming occupation of the "Liberated Iraqis." nels =========================================== VnStroope@aol.com wrote: > I have seen many Iraqi POW's with hoods on their heads, tied around their throats. This seems >wrong. I have perused the Geneva Convention and found nothing explicit on this, but implicitly it >seems as if 13,14 and 17 should apply. Do any of you know if there have been legal >interpretations which explicitly state that depriving prisoners of their sight is a violation of >GC law? > > Roger Stroope > "the choice, non-violence or nonexistence" > Austin College > > _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk