Bush Administration Planning $60 Million Dollar Afghan Prison 
A New York Times syndicated article appeared in the May 17 Seattle Times containing these revealing facts:
"The Pentagon is proceeding with plans to build a new 40-acre detention-complex on the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan.
"Officials (of the Pentagon) said in a stark acknowledgement that the United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come."
Therefore it appears this has triggered Bush to act hastily to transfer Guantanamo prisoners to a new $60 million prison the Pentagon is rushing to build in Afghanistan.
The lawyer who designed the U.S. torture policy is the son of immigrants from South Korea. His legal opinion has justified U.S. interrogators using techniques many consider nothing short of torture.
"Water boarding" is the name designated to describe shoving a suspected terrorist under water, holding him there, creating the horrifying sensation of drowning. In some cases electrical jolts were added to the drowning sensation.
Israel abandoned interrogation torture tactics, recognizing that reliable information cannot be obtained this way.
If a human being is subjected to a life threatening situation, like thinking he will drown and die, while suffering electrical jolts, he might say anything to save his life.
It would be interesting if John Yoo, whose "torture memo" set this chain of torture events into motion could list every nation in the world submitting terrorist suspects (so called) to his approved U.S. torture menu specialties, he should be asked this question:
Does South Korea, where your parents came from, torture suspected terrorists?
Regarding the style of U.S. soldiers' treatment in Afghan prisons, Schmitt and Golden wrote the following, "Harsh interrogation methods and sleep deprivation were used widely, and two Afghan detainees died there in December 2002, after being repeatedly struck by U.S. soldiers."
Perhaps the most shocking revelation in this New York Times expose article was this:
"Some detainees have been held without charge for more than five years, officials said."
The headline story in Esquire for June 8 shows a one page photo of John Yoo, the lawyer who claimed in his "torture memo" that the horrifying interrogation techniques used on terror suspects Yoo deemed torture as pain equivalent to "death or organ failure."
The headline above the Esquire article on John Yoo asks this question about him "Is this man a monster?"
That is a question only a trial at The Hague can answer satisfactorily.
KEYWORDS: John Yoo, Guantanmo Prison
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