“‘US-Style’ torture”
This phrase appears in a piece by the Asia times regarding US involvement in Muslim insurgencies in southern Thailand. The relevant part?
US and Thai officials will no doubt continue to try to disassociate the CIA’s torture prisons with the Thai military’s controversial tactics in southern Thailand, including the implementation of what some rights advocates refer to as “US-style” torture techniques. It is telling, they say, that the US has in the main remained silent about their Thai allies’ sustained and by now well-documented use of torture while interrogating Muslim militant suspects.
Read the article here
It’s a pretty good article, though I confess I haven’t read much on the US using Thailand as a stop off on the whirlwind US torture tour. Note: I first found mention of this article on Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish blog, who got it from The Crossed Pond. Both sites mistakenly used the term “American-style torture.”