London Police Accused Of Waterboarding Suspects

Times Of London:

Metropolitan Police officers subjected suspects to waterboarding, according to allegations at the centre of a major anti-corruption inquiry, The Times has learnt.

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Comments

[NewYorkStateofMind]

woah

that is pretty serious

[BabblingBrooks]

Just from a purely objective standpoint, the Eastern European women may be the most beautiful, on average, in the world.

[chedar]

Japanese chicks are better.

[MedinaM]

But Ethiopians are the best!

[GiovanniJones]

I work with two girls from Croatia and they're both absolutely beautiful.

[ragtag]

It's just a matter of time before water-boarding becomes an accepted method of interrogation by police here in Amerika. It's astonishing to see how complacent we've become as a country. I'm actually more afraid of the various law organizations in this country than I am of terrorism - and I'm a law abiding white guy.

Those that fought to create this great country would be ashamed at the current state of affairs.

[GunneraGirl]

Yeah, and one of the lawyers who wrote the legal memos for Bush/Cheney supporting the legality of waterboarding is currently an APPELLATE JUDGE!!!!! We should be trembling in our shoes over that fact.

[rabiddog6708]

Some Texas c0p just tasered a 72 year old woman who would not sign her traffic ticket. How did we ever reach a point where this officer ever considered this as an acceptable response?

[jsgaetano]

Don't worry about it- it's Texass.

There are reasons most of America doesn't care if Texass secedes.

[jsgaetano]

And we don't need to go out of our borders to find terrorists. Republicans have more than enough of them to find right (far right) here at home.

[Ravenback47]

Black folks have been telling us that since slavery.

[Coinyer101]

agreed. and don't have long hair and smoke reefer. the 'crewcuts' already love abusing them/us.

[Sentientbeing09]

We will find these terrorist pot smokers.

[Coinyer101]

I always thought I was pretty mellow....­.,

[gbrooks]

I hope the Brits rally for prosecutions and shame us into doing the same thing.

[dems08]

Cannabis sativa is an annual herb that grows in soil, and has flowers and seeds, like all flowering plants.

GP TORTURED prisoners over a plant,

which is even more evidence than cheney had....

[andycan]

Soon waterboarding will considered along with the great achievements of civilization - agriculture, writing, the wheel, the computer..­.... now water-boarding.

The English like to take the best the world has to offer and make it their own. What a smart, intelligent choice by the London police.

[probo]

I blame the Queen, with all her whips and chains, she's nasty and brutal when she gets p.o'd.

[NoblesseOblige]

Don't forget the Tower. That's been in operation for almost a thousand years. If only the walls could talk.

[mayfly0]

The met has always been know for pushing the window. But atleast there is an investigation!

[ObamAtomic]

We will be next,calling all the Sheriff's ,please refrain from temptation.

[Lee Andrew]

This is exactly what I feared... Sheriff Joe Aprio of Maricopa County Arizona getting the amber light.

[banja]

Cheney has a cousin in London ?

[PSM42]

The fellow chained to a wall in Morocco having his @#$# slit with a razor, repeatedly for many weeks, was being asked questions by the British. I don't think they need a cousin of Ch. en. ey. ymmv.

[PSM42]

Life of Brian version - You lucky luck @#$@#$ - Graham Chapman - @4:30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxxElwgyIlg

[TJCole]

Are you kidding the British excel at torture, ask any Irish Catholic..­!

[mayfly0]

The only Irish catholics I ever knew, their parents move from Belfast , too England, so they could be free and talk too who they wanted. So allowing their catholic children too have a normal childhood, something the secterian violence in Belfast would not allow.Siob­han said," one day we could walk both sides of the street, and have protestent friends, the next day we could not". The IRA cause that!

[TJCole]

The British still used lots of torture against not just the IRA...

Britain made an industry of torture, more than any nation they built huge torture machines they still have them, there was an entire documentary on it....

[brandnewstuff]

Is Scotland Yard going to be better than the DOJ?- my goodness to copy cat an illegal american program - disgraceful

[KickerBoard]

Along with the murder of the Brazilian, de Menezes (killed for being brown while carrying a backpack), torture is part of the legacy of grinning war criminal, Tony Blair - 21st century Crusader and all-round Bush doormat. Thank heavens he's gone away - but he should be on trial for initiating fake wars that killed real people, including British soldiers.

[GunneraGirl]

Isn't it fairly common knowledge that IRS members were held and tortured in an undisclosed location in Northern Ireland during the early 1970s? And during the Mau Mau rebellion Kenyans were also tortured, Obama's grandfather among them. I'm not saying that it is built into the British culture, but that maybe, historically, the blame can't be laid at that particular door(mat).

[Sentientbeing09]

Did you mean the IRA?

torturing the IRS is wishful thinking maybe.

[mayfly0]

Doubt any member of the IRA were tortured, otherwise the Irish Americans that were funding them , would have got,' their nickers in a twist'. As the British would have been going against international treaties. For heavens sake the USA, would not even freeze the funds from what I remember! See any double standards here, and I am British. These were the first that struck me here, when the war on terrorism came up, for years people had scream freeze the terrorist funds, any terrorist, too no avail, then 9/11. The rest is history.