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May 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“These killings appeared to have amounted to extrajudicial executions,” the
group said.
Amnesty also hit out at human rights violations committed by former president
George W Bush’s administration and condemned the “impunity” with which his
officials operated.
The global rights monitor also criticised Canada for failing to arrest Mr Bush
when he visited in October, “despite clear evidence that he was responsible
for crimes under international law, including torture.”
“There was no accountability for human rights violations committed under the
administration of president George W Bush as part of the CIA’s program of
secret detention and rendition,” Amnesty said, referring to the transfer of
individuals from one country to another without access to legal process.
Attorney General Eric Holder in June 2011 launched a criminal investigation
into the deaths of two detainees in CIA custody but dropped probes into the
vast majority of alleged interrogation abuses.
Amnesty regretted President Barack Obama’s failure to shut down Guantanamo,
noting that at the end of 2011, nearly two years after his self-imposed
closure deadline, “171 men were still held at the base, including four who
had been convicted by military commission.”
The number of detainees at the US detention center in Cuba currently stands at
169.
The report lamented that five suspects accused of planning the September 11,
2001 attacks “had been held incommunicado for up to four years in secret US
custody before being transferred to Guantanamo.”
Amnesty also criticised conditions in American prisons, in particular the high
number of hours some detainees were confined in isolated cells, and the
execution of 43 men last year, all by lethal injection.
“This brought to 1,277 the total number of executions carried out since the US
Supreme Court lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in 1976,” the report
said.
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