Hick's father Terry, who finally got to meet John Howard even if it was by accident, says his son will be focussing on rehab. It's now been confirmed for all intents and purposes that the Howard government was given video-taped evidence of Hick's torture.
Details of the faxed document sent from the US embassy on April 4, 2002, were obtained under Freedom of Information legislation. The AFP has refused to release the letter, saying the information in it was provided by an overseas agency on the condition it not be passed on.Meanwhile, the Iraqi parliament still has not passed a law legitimizing the presence of foreign troops beyond this year. Aside from the US and UK, who have pledge to remove troops by July 2009, the only countries with troops remaining in Iraq are El Salvador, Romania, Estonia and... Australia.
AFP officers and ASIO agents travelled to Guantanamo Bay several times to question Hicks and Mr Habib.
The Washington Post reported this year that the Bush administration had in 2002 and 2003 advised all foreign governments it would videotape the interrogation of their nationals.
Documents obtained by the Post show identical cables sent to foreign governments, which read: "The United States will videotape and sound record the interviews between representatives of your government and the detainee(s) named above ... "
The CIA has admitted possessing interrogation tapes that do not involve US officials. It is understood the tapes were forwarded to the CIA from countries that conducted interrogations of terrorist suspects under the US rendition program.
Meanwhile, another mysterious double cable cut off the coast of Egypt.
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Such a contradiction -- realPresident Cheney is saying "What we did was legal and necessary" but they're afraid to release the video of those legal and necessary things they did. They know it would revolt the world's conscience. It's a good thing for them that they don't have the ability to be introspective. Because they'd have to kill themselves, like an honourable Japanese war criminal in WW II. Only these chickenshits don't have the guts to seppuku out their own.
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