Red Cross Hit Hard By Suicide Bombers (Camp X-Ray Alert)

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Red Cross Hit Hard By Suicide Bombers

The bombing of the Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad raises a number of serious questions about the role of the international humanitarian organization in modern conflicts.



Exclusive to American Free Press

By Christopher Bollyn



GENEVA, Switzerland—When a powerful car bomb exploded outside the Baghdad headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) the first question was: “Why?”

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When asked about U.S. compliance with the 3rd Geneva Convention (1949) concerning the treatment of prisoners of war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the ICRC “watchdog” appeared to be muzzled.

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The reported conditions at Guantanamo, however, would constitute violations of the Geneva Convention, and the way in which the detainees were transported from Afghanistan was seen as “inhumane.”

Alif Khan, an Afghan detainee who was later released, described the trip: “They put cuffs and tape on my hands, taped my eyes and taped my ears. They gagged me. They put chains on my legs and chains around my belly. They injected me. I was unconscious. I don’t know how they transported me. When I arrived in Cuba and they took me off the plane they gave another injection and I came back to consciousness. I did not know how long the plane was flying for. It might have been one day or two days. They put me onto a bed on wheels. I could sense what was going on. They tied me up. They took me off the plane into a vehicle. We to a big prison and there were cages there. They built it like a zoo.”

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