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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

[chottala.com] THE WORST CRIME OF THE 20TH CENTURY



 

 

THE WORST CRIME OF THE 20TH CENTURY

                                     -- Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND and Elissa Meininger

In America and in the West, the public is conditioned to believe that modern (allopathic) medicine is the supreme healing modality. Propaganda machines that rely on media in need of content and not necessarily truth eagerly spread this notion. Scientific journal articles promoting drugs are little more than press releases by pharmaceutical companies signed by doctors for hire.

 

In the midst of the recent "outing" of unsafe drugs by whistleblowers; the thousands of law suits against drug companies for drug damage; and a plethora of books and articles enumerating the side effects of drugs and the hundreds of thousands of lives lost because of it, we see drug companies and the World Trade Organization determined to control dietary supplements through Codex and international trade agreements in their global quest for power.

Why is this happening? Simply because most of the world does not use modern medicine and the 'powers that be' want to control those other forms of medicine to make way for a seamless, worldwide assembly-line style of health delivery by government decree favoring the highly-profitable, patented products and services of modern (allopathic) medicine.

One of the forms of medicine that is being targeted for control is homeopathy. Both Elissa and I have a deep and abiding love of homeopathy and we speak up for it whenever we can.

Homeopathy is one of those systems of medicine that is all encompassing and could be a life-long project of study. I wanted to make it my prime modality after medical school and began learning it during my naturopathic training. That might have had something to do with genes because my grandmother was a nurse and a homeopath. My father, while still in high school, was on the lists to enter Boston University School of Medicine, which, at the time, was a homeopathic medical school. I found, however, that I'm much too eclectic to stay in one place for too long, but I stayed long enough to see some miraculous cures take place. In the hands of a skilled homeopath, it is one of the best existing modalities for all conditions. I recommend it to parents as the best form of medicine for children, the best for most acute conditions and I advise people to have a homeopathic kit on hand to treat emergencies.

Elissa's reasons are even more personal. After a lifetime of ill health due to a missed diagnosis of mercury poisoning from her dental fillings (a disease that is not recognized by either the American dental community or modern [allopathic] medicine), Elissa was diagnosed by a homeopath and from the first dose of a homeopathic remedy, she found her salvation. Up until then, she had experienced not just debilitating symptoms of serious chronic illness, but numerous extreme adverse reactions from such things as penicillin and Tylenol. To find out why she was misdiagnosed all those years and why she was never referred to homeopathy, a medical philosophy that has specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of medically-induced mercury poisoning for 200 years prompted Elissa to become the health policy expert she is today. She earned her expertise by delving into the depth and breadth of the history of American medicine and how politics and the clever actions of several self-interest groups, over time, created today's modern medical monopoly folly.

The story of how homeopathy first came to America, became the second most practiced healing art by public demand and then was virtually destroyed by Big Pharma and its allies, the AMA and the practitioners of modern (allopathic) medicine, is why we have called our article "The Worst Crime of the 20th Century." This history bears witness to how the self-interest of just a handful of people, by creating an allopathic medical monopoly, continues to cause the needless deaths of millions of people and the ongoing suffering of millions more.

As the story goes, back in the mid-1800s, homeopathy had arrived on our shores from its homeland, Germany, and the public eagerly flocked to homeopathic physicians. No wonder! The "modern (allopathic) medicine" of the day included draining people of up to 32 ounces of blood and dosing them with lethal amounts of mercury in a product called "calomel." Calomel caused profuse salivation and doctors measured the amount of saliva by the pint as a means of determining the success of the treatment. Calomel was considered the all-purpose elixir for most ailments along with the bleeding, so you can see why homeopathy spread rapidly. Homeopaths found allopathic treatment barbaric.

What confounded the practitioners of "modern (allopathic) medicine" of that era was that homeopaths were well-educated and had quickly fallen into favor with the educated, politically powerful and wealthier clientele, as well as the masses. Worse yet, while their medical philosophy confounded the average practitioner of "modern (allopathic) medicine," every time an allopath actually took an honest look at how homeopathy was practiced, another convert to homeopathy was born. In fact, in many cases, practicing homeopaths were actually converts from "modern (allopathic) medicine."

Proof that homeopathy worked was widespread. Every epidemic in Europe and America starting with the cholera epidemics in the 1840s became an advertisement for the virtues of homeopathy. Homeopaths saved lives in large numbers and compared to the competition it was obvious that allopathic methods were a complete failure. In rapid order, the practice of homeopathy became widespread in New England, the Middle Atlantic States, and the Midwest. True to form, while the South had been slow to catch on, the 1878 yellow fever epidemic converted many patients and doctors there, too.

The formation of the American Medical Association in the 1840s was in direct response to the onslaught of a superior medical system. From the beginning, the AMA stood firm with a hostile "them or us" attitude about members consorting with the competition. Well-educated homeopaths, often graduates of Harvard, Yale and other such schools, were banned from joining the AMA. In AMA meetings, any discussion about homeopathy was banned. If any member of the AMA, or its state chapters, were seen consorting with a homeopath, that doctor was expelled.

Voluminous and vicious literature was written and circulated about the worthlessness of homeopathy. When the drug industry emerged as an economic force in the 1870s, flush with its profits from selling mercury medicinals to the Union Army, the AMA found the sugar daddy of its dreams that could fuel and finance an all out war against its most serious competition. This polemic propaganda continues today because the 1500 or so effective homeopathic remedies that have been developed over 200 years represent serious competition for Big Pharma. Furthermore, homeopathic remedies have proven to have no dangerous side effects, are not patentable, can be manufactured and sold for pennies and have a very long shelf life.

Those who practice medicine in the allopathic tradition, then as now, know instinctively that homeopathy, by its very principles, is a rejection of the assumptions held near and dear to modern medicine. In fact, it is important to know that homeopathy is actually the invention of a German medical genius named Samuel Hahnemann. It comes from Hahnemann's rejection of what he was taught as an allopathic physician in his days, 200 years ago.

What Hahnemann saw was a failure to truly heal people. As a linguist with knowledge of many ancient and modern languages, including several from the Arab world, Hahnemann made a good deal of his living translating scientific and medical texts. This gave him access to some of the greatest minds in the world's medical traditions and it was when he was questioning the conclusions of British doctor, William Cullen, regarding the use of Peruvian bark to treat malaria, that Hahnemann experienced a flash of insight that fostered homeopathy.

At the height of its popularity in America, homeopathy was second only to allopathy in the number of practitioners. It had its own schools, its own pharmacies and even had a monument erected to honor Hahnemann in Washington, D.C., considered by many to be one of the great geniuses in the history of medicine.

At the time this monument to Hahnemann was unveiled, there were 22 homeopathic medical schools in America. One of the more interesting ones was The New England Female College founded in 1850 as the world's first women's medical school. During its time, it graduated the first black woman doctor and after it was absorbed into Boston University to become Boston University Medical School in 1873, it became America's first coed medical school. In 1897, the new school graduated its first black doctor, who went on to become America's first black psychiatrist.

Ironically, four years after the monument was erected, and 10 years before the publication of the Flexner Report, the blueprint of the allopathic medical monopoly, the trustees of Boston University were told by AMA officials that if they didn't convert the medical school curricula to all-allopathic, their graduates would have difficulty taking and passing state medical licensing examinations. At the time, there were 645 practicing homeopaths in Boston alone.

So, what allopathic assumptions does homeopathy reject? At its core, homeopathy is based, not on a biochemical or mechanistic model like allopathy, but on the idea that each person has a vital force, a resonating frequency, if you will. This vital force, called Qi or Chi in Asian healing arts, is basically the energy or essence of the person that can be observed and measured. In the simplest terms, when you are ill, according to homeopathic philosophy, your frequency changes and symptoms occur as a result of your body trying to restore you to a healthy frequency. The symptoms serve as the means by which restoration of health can be achieved. The very symptoms that allopaths suppress are the ones the body uses to get well and that a homeopath surveys to find the appropriate remedy to help the body heal.

To a homeopath, an office call is basically devoted to systematically interviewing the patient to determine what makes them tick as well as gathering as much information about each of their symptoms as possible. Then, after analyzing this information, the homeopath has available 1500 or so catalogued remedies that are inventoried according to symptoms and constitution.

The information in these reference manuals is drawn from data on literally thousands of patients who have been treated successfully. Homeopathic remedies themselves are developed by a process called "potentization" which renders them not only non-toxic but leaves only a minute vibration in the water of the original substance. These potentized remedies, when they enter the person's body as a frequency, not a chemical substance, basically help revitalize the person's own harmonious frequency.

To modern (allopathic) medical practitioners, a symptom is a bad outcome of an illness and suppressing the symptom is the first thing a doctor tries to do to make the patient feel better. Suppression of symptoms is not the same as healing the person.

Each homeopathic remedy is developed by first testing it on healthy people based on an idea called "the law of similars." The law of similars comes from an old idea that a substance that can create a symptom in a healthy person can cure a sick person suffering the same symptom. The law of similars confounds the scientific assumptions of the biochemically-based allopathic medical community and until you experience the healing process yourself, you will probably scratch your head, wondering what these homeopaths are talking about. Hahnemann came to name his new school of thought homeo (Greek for "similar"), pathy (Greek for "suffering). He then named the old school of thought allo (Greek for "other"), pathy.

These opposing views on the meaning of symptoms and what a doctor does about them is the sharpest of many ideological divisions between homeopathy and allopathy.

For most of the 1800s, allopaths were called allopaths but when the AMA orchestrated the publication of the Flexner Report in 1910, to outline their new medical monopoly, the first order of business was to make sure the word "allopathy" no longer defined them. They wanted ALL practitioners of all "cults" or "dogmas" as they insultingly referred to their competition, to give up their differing medical ideas and "surrender" to modern science.

The Flexner Report was used to convince the financial backers of non-allopathic medical schools, particularly homeopathy, to cease providing funding. Within 20 years, all but one homeopathic school had been closed or forced to convert to allopathic teaching only.

It came to our attention that Citizens for Health, one of the major national health freedom groups, in conjunction with the National Center for Homeopathy, had organized a writing campaign to the Center For Disease Control to include homeopathic research as part of its agenda for the next decade.

This campaign, with the deadline of January 15, 2006, is now over. However, we have mixed feelings about how the modern medicine dominated CDC, or the National Institute for Health or any other of the usual research organizations could possibly conduct honest and relevant research on homeopathy, given the fact that modern medicine is based on such vastly different assumptions.

We also have concerns because of recent revelations about the corruption in science in all venues as well as the faking of scientific papers being published in prestigious medical journals. We have concerns about the political and economic agendas of those in control of directing what research shall be done and that, somehow, homeopathy will be tainted keeping it in the same false and negative light it has been held for most of the 20th century.

We suggest that there are ample books written by practicing homeopaths about the success of homeopathy for any open-minded person to see its worth. In any case, we are foursquare behind restoring homeopathy to its former position as the second largest medical system in America and give you practical resources at the end to pursue your own investigation of homeopathy.

To sum up the worldview on homeopathy we recently read an article in the New India Press, dated December 24, 2005, titled, "WHO Recognition for Homeopathy." We thought you might like to read some excerpts from this article to give you a flavor of how homeopathy is discussed in a country where it is widely accepted and used.

"Deviating from the trend of rejecting homeopathy treatment and medicine as mere placebos, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that homeopathy is the second-most used medical system internationally.

Clinical trials have proved that this method of treatment has been successful if the practitioners have taken into account the individual holistic nature of the patient before opting for homeopathy.' Says Dr. T N Sreedhara Kurup, Assistant Director In-Charge of the Central Research Institute for Homeopathy.

'Different patients will receive different treatments for the same disease making it difficult to conduct randomised control trials,' he said. 'Homeopathy is that stream of medicine, which prescribes medicines suitable to the individual and the cost of treatment is affordable when compared to Allopathy. Besides, it is claimed that homeopathic medicines are devoid of any harmful side-effects,' says Dr. Ravi M Nair, a homeopathy specialist."

In all, the New India Press estimates that "about 500 million people rely on homeopathy treatment in the world. As a system of medicine, it draws support from hundreds of thousands of doctors, teaching institutions and universities where homeopathy is taught."

We conclude that as allopathic medicine is relegated to its proper place –surgery and emergency medicine, homeopathy and other natural healing arts will once again flourish and inspire.


RESOURCES: www.homeopathic.com www.healthyhomeopathy.com

ACT FOR HEALTH FREEDOM NOW: Go to www.friendsoffreedominternational.org view and purchase the new movie on Codex and Free Trade called "We Become Silent" by Kevin Miller

Also purchase " Death by Modern Medicine." Proceeds from the sale of these products are crucial to help us fund our health freedom action. For state action go to: www.nationalhealthfreedom.org.

Dr. Carolyn Dean is a medical doctor, naturopathic doctor, herbalist, acupuncturist, nutritionist, as well as a powerful health activist fighting for health freedom as president of Friends of Freedom International. Dr. Dean is the author of over a dozen health books, the latest of which is "Death By Modern Medicine".

Elissa Meininger, is Vice President of Friends of Freedom International and co-founder of the Health Freedom Action Network, a grassroots citizens' political action group. She is also a health freedom political analyst and can be heard on the natural health radio show SuperHealth, broadcast weekly on station WKY (SuperTalk AM 930) in Oklahoma City.

Website: www.deathbymodernmedicine.com Website: www.carolyndean.com

 





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[chottala.com] Is any one doing such stupidity ?




It is stupidity if someone wants to make solution of oil and water.
Similarly , it is stupidy if someone wants to make a united and strong party accomodating both
opportunists(so called reformists) and dedicated leaders and workers,particularly when the opportunists are exposed after 1/11?
 
 
Is any one doing such stupidity ?
The test of patriotism is not a one-off event for anyone, let alone the political quarters, that once passed is passed for ever. It is rather a perpetual process, especially for the ruling political quarters that have to pass it every moment- Nurul Kabir , Editor , The NewAge



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[chottala.com] Keep America Safe - Visit web site & watch the NBC News video



Visit web site &  watch the NBC News video:
 
Keep America Safe:
 
 
 
 
[Chenny: the next generation neocon]

Keep America Safe

By Scott Horton

If you enjoy fear-mongering, here's a not-for-profit organization for you: Keep America Safe. William Kristol and Liz Cheney are the dynamic duo behind it. Cheney is just off a Sunday talk show appearance in which she explained that awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the president of the United States—a decision that coincides with new polls showing America suddenly resurgent as the most admired nation in the world—actually reflects the loss of American leadership and a disdain for America. That was just a taste of the Bizarro World that also appears in a video issued by Keep America Safe. It appears to be stitched together from segments broadcast by Fox News, few of which stand up to fact-checking. (For instance, it suggests that Obama has stripped the defense budget, when in fact this year's budget is $40 billion larger than last year's. Charles Krauthammer tells us Obama hasn't decided what to do about Afghanistan. In fact, Obama has already rejected the idea of a draw-down, so the only question that his team is deliberating is how large the new contingent of troops will be. That contrasts with the Bush-Cheney team, which received a comparable appeal for more troops from its Afghanistan commanders in April 2008, and decided to ignore it.) So, considering that the major departures Obama has made from Bush strategy actually involve more robust use of the military—especially in Afghanistan and in the Pakistani border region—what is it that Obama has done that makes America unsafe?

I'd reduce the real purpose of Keep America Safe to this: "Please don't prosecute my father!" It's increasingly clear that Dick Cheney was the author of the Bush-era torture policies, and my hunch is that when the Justice Department releases the OPR report on the torture memos, we're going to find more evidence of the invisible hand of Dick Cheney behind the whole project. Any fair-minded federal prosecutor looking into the matter would shortly be preparing to do what Patrick Fitzgerald probably wishes now he had done: indict Dick Cheney.

Here's a Countdown segment reviewing the new Cheney-Kristol initiative and putting it in appropriate perspective:

 
 
 
 
YouTube Videos:
 
KEEP AMERICA SAFE!!!
 
Keep America Safe Board Member Debra Burlingame On "Your Word w/Neil Cavuto"
 
Liz Cheney And Keep America Safe Drive The Left Nuts
 
 


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[chottala.com] Advise about human rights



Dear All,
What types of human rights those Europian Ambassadors are asking to implement in our country Bangladesh? When Western countries bombed in Iraq, Afganisthan and many other third world countries killing thousands and thousands of children, women and people of those countries at that time where were their human rights. They did not bother to tell America, Britain and other Western countries to follow human rights at that very moment. Now they are advising us to follow human rights. They have tested their latest model arms and ammunitions utilysing it in those innocent people of helpless countries indiscriminately. Where were their human rights at that time. We would like to request them not to try to poke their nose into other's affairs. Our country is not violating any human rights rather trying to save the innocent people from violating human rights by some uncontrolled miscreants.
Dowllah.



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Re: [chottala.com] Re: A victim of U.S. torture : Free Aafia Siddiqui By Sara Flounders New York:



 
Mr. Nader Chowdhury
 
You are showing "holier-than-thou" attitude and trying to be more American
than the Americans themselves are. There is no anti-US propaganda here in
Chottala. (PERIOD)
 
America is not a gulf-state sheikhdom: America maintains a high degree
of freedom of speech which is  constitutionally guaranteed.
There are many points and comments in Ms Sara Flounders' article
which are plausible. Bear in mind that Ms Flounders is a New Yorker,
an American by-birth. She has presented the facts and views from the
stand point of an American who is skeptic about the covert actions and
differs with US-adminstration's position on world-wide hegemony-ism.
 
America has it's good, bad and ugly. The ugly side of it's imperial outreach
disturbs many American and Ms Sara Flounders' writeup reflects that
 
The Bush doctrine was inherently flawed and consequently led
to expediency and heavy handedness in it's ground level implementation.
Dr. Aafia's case is the just tip of the iceberg of such expediency and
heavy handedness, not anyone's personal animosity with her.
[an example of scapegoating]
 
About your "guarantee" aspersion, there is no guarantee in human behavior.
And that applies to you, me, Tom, Dick, Harry, and everybody else.
 
As we all know, covert actions are done 'by the way of deceptions',
under kinds of masks:
The recent news items on  9/11 purpetrator casts doubt on original
Bush-adminstration version, which was used to justify pre-emptive
strikes etc. ..... On the eve of the eighth anniversary of the Afghan war, a
Pashtun regional commander and former prime minister has said that no
Afghan was involved in the 9/11 attacks on the United States and accused
Washington of using a pretext to launch its war on the south-west Asian
country. Please read Chottala message # 10432  in this connection
based on a report published in The Washington Times.  (USA)
 
Also, Renowned Hollywood star Charlie Sheen is charging that the
administration of former president George W. Bush was behind the 9/11
attacks, calling for an independent investigation into the tragedy.
 
Further discussion on this is beyond the scope of current thread.
 
As we all know, free discussions are always welcome in our
Chottala forum !!!!!  Let us all get used to different points of view
and news from all different sources. Let the readers judge by
themselves... All attempts to styme others by putting labels
or scare tactics should be discouraged.
 
I totally disagree with your comment that the posting of an
article by Ms Sara Flaunders is anti US propaganda.
So, at the least, let us AGREE to DISAGREE.
 
No hurt feeling !
 
Thanks for everyone's patience !
 
 
Syed Aslam
 
 
On 10/6/09, naderchowdhury <naderchowdhury@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have written about this issue before too. I am disturbed by this anti US propaganda
here in Chottala.

Mr Syed Aslam, can you please address these few points.ý

1.Do ýUS government has any personal animosity with Dr Afia Siddique?
2.Don't you think US government have more inside knowledge than you (and me)ý
3. Is there any guarantee that neo surgeon from MIT will never be a misguided ýand a terrorist?ý
4. Is there any guarantee that mother of 3 will not attack US ýsoldiers?

On top of everything, Chottala is not a platform for anti US propaganda.ý If she is innocent let her face the court and prove that. i think you have faith on US legal system.

Hope I have clarified my position. We don't like to see more of Afia Siddique coverage here and NO anti US propaganda at all.

Nader Chowdhury

--- In chottala@yahoogroups.com, Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@...> wrote:

Dear All

The article *"A victim of U.S. torture* -* Free Aafia Siddiqui"*
is written by By Ms Sara Flounders who is a New Yorker.
And there are obviously good reasons that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui
is getting world wide coverage ....and has become
a cause de célèbre to many ....

Aafia Siddiqui is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis
University. She is a deeply devout Muslim, who had been
supportive of Muslim charities in Boston that benefitted many
Bangladeshi immigrants in Massachusetts too.
Everyone one wants that Dr. Aafia Siqqiqui gets a fair trial

As Ms Sara Flounders contends:
 "This is a Guantánamo case outside of Guantánamo. ... Dr. Siddiqui has been treated worse than the detainees at Guantánamo ...
 We are confident that the evidence in this case will show that
Dr. Siddiqui harmed no one. To the contrary, this 90-pound mother of
three was shot and wounded herself, the alleged circumstances of which
are not supported by evidence. Dr. Siddiqui harmed no one.
She is innocent of these charges.†This is a case that must be taken up
in full solidarity by the entire progressive movement, including the women’s
movement, the movement for immigrant rights and the broad movement
against U.S. racism and war."

The Aafia Siddique's detention exposes an ugly facet of USA's
imperial outreach vis-a-vis Pakistani intelligences heavy handedness.

I do not think that there any reason for a Bangladeshi for getting
impatient or personally annoyed that "Aafia Siddiqui getting a big
coverage" Readers who do not like Dr. Aafia Siddique's prominance or

think that the "alleged torture" on her is justified should ignore the posts on her or
present his/her points of view in regards to the post within the context.
I believe that free discussions are always welcome in our
Chottala forum !!!!!  

Syed Aslam


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> On 10/1/09,* <siraj uddowllah <siraj_58@...>* wrote:
Dear All,
For years together we are seeing in this chottala group about a Pakistani lady Dr. Aafia Siddiqui getting a big coverage about her life history and
torture in American detention. There are so many in American detentions up
till now but why this lady is getting some special attention and sympathy.
 What interest our Bangladesh have about this Pakistani lady as she is
getting so much big, time killing coverage in our chottala group regularly?
Dowllah.

 
 
 

 

* ** *Syed Aslam* (Syed.Aslam3@...) wrote:
A victim of U.S. torture* Free Aafia Siddiqui By Sara Flounders
New York Published Sep 13, 2009 10:13 PM
Now that the documents recording the systematic torture of thousands of
prisoners in secret U.S. prisons have been released to the world media in
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Aug. 24 report, the secret documents on the imprisonment and torture of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui must also be released. Days before Siddiqui, a woman weighing less than 90 pounds, was again forcibly brought into United States District Court in Manhattan on
contradictory charges of trying to murder FBI agents in Afghanistan, these
documents of what the FBI and CIA are really doing in Afghanistan and in
secret prisons around the world were referenced in major news stories for
all to read.Siddiqui has been held in secret detention since she was kidnapped in Pakistan at the age of 30. The now 36-year-old, U.S.-educated, Pakistani neuroscientist continues in court to say that she has been tortured. She has refused to accept visits even from appointed defense lawyers because the brutal and humiliating strip searches that she is subjected to are so personally and culturally degrading and excruciatingly painful.Siddiqui has wounds and scars from her sternum to her lower abdomen after being shot by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. Her charges of being tortured for years are hardly groundless. These acts are documented again and again on every page of the newly-released documents.
Tens of thousands of pages confirm in the most graphic details that CIA
interrogators threatened to kill the children of detainees; threatened
sexual assaults; threatened bound prisoners with guns and an electric drill;
used water boarding against one prisoner 183 times; used shocking into
> > unconsciousness, brutal strip searches, mock executions, confinement in a tiny box and continued slamming of the head.
Holder announced on Aug. 29 the appointment of a special federal prosecutor to investigate the interrogation practices of the CIA. These new documents represent the largest release of information about the Bush administration’s once-secret system of capturing terrorism suspects and interrogating them in undisclosed locations around the world. An ACLU lawsuit compelled the release of the CIA’s own 2004 Inspector General’s internal report on stomach-turning interrogations. These documents of “enhanced interrogation†tactics were heavily ‘redacted’ or censored with whole pages blocked out for “security reasons.â€
This 2004 report shows that the CIA kept detailed observational records on thousands of prisoners and the impact of their torture techniques on the
human psyche. They made systematic measurements of the prisoners’ reactions to torture. From the censured documents it is clear that medical doctors and psychologists betrayed their professions by monitoring calibrated,
incremental increases of torture to bring about excruciating pain, terror,
humiliation and shame. The documents make it clear that all tortures were designed to create a systematic emotional and psychological breakdown in the interrogated prisoners. *Held in secret prisons* Aafia Siddiqui is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis University. She is a deeply
devout Muslim, who had been supportive of Muslim charities in Boston. On
March 30, 2003, during a trip home to Karachi to visit her mother, she was
kidnapped and “disappeared,†along with her three children.
Human rights organizations had long demanded that U.S. and Pakistani
intelligence agencies account for her disappearance. Human Rights Watch, a year before she was shot and flown to the U.S., considered her among those held at a “CIA black site†â€"a secret prison.
U.S. officials denied any knowledge of her for five years. But as far back
as April 2003, the Press Trust of India reported that she had been arrested
in Karachi and was being questioned by the FBI. U.S. intelligence sources at
that time confirmed that Siddiqui was “essentially in the hands of the FBI
now.† Siddiqui’s family retained U.S. attorney Elaine Whitfield Sharp of
Massachusetts to try to discover her location and to serve as their
spokeswoman to the media. She had been filing cases seeking information in U.S. courts ever since Siddiqui’s disappearance.
Millions of people in Pakistan and throughout the Muslim world, along with
many human rights groups, always believed that the U.S. government forces
and the Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan had captured and tortured
her and were holding her in secret prisons in Pakistan or Afghanistan. Many
believe that she was the prisoner described as the Grey Lady of Bagram
Prison at the U.S. Air Base in Afghanistan. Prisoners released from secret
detention at Bagram described hearing the continuing howls of a woman
prisoner being repeatedly raped and tortured. According to The Daily Times
of Pakistan, “The cries of this helpless woman echoed with such torment in the jail that it prompted prisoners to go on hunger strike.†(July 7, 2008)
 A growing number of media in the region began reporting that Siddiqui had
been in Bagram for the last five years, and calls for her release were
escalating. *Contradictory charges* On Aug. 4, 2008, the U.S. government suddenly announced that Siddiqui had
been arrested on July 17 and charged with attempted murder and assault of
U.S. officers and employees. She was then flown to the U.S. in the custody of FBI agents. Attorney Sharp told the New York Times, “We believe Aafia has been in U.S. custody ever since she disappeared.†(Aug. 5, 2008) In another interview with Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific, she said: “We do know she was at Bagram for a long time. According to my client she was there for years and she was held in American custody; her treatment was horrendous.†(www.asia-pacific-action.org, Aug. 7)
A series of contrary reports claimed that U.S. soldiers, trying to take her from Afghan police who had arrested her in Ghazni, a city in central
Afghanistan, had shot her after she managed to grab an M-4 rifle and shoot at two FBI agents. Neither agent was wounded.
How this 90-pound prisoner surrounded by both U.S. soldiers and Afghan
police accomplished this was never explained. Other reports were that she
was shot in the abdomen because U.S. soldiers feared she was a suicide bomber.
Neither the Afghan nor U.S. reports of how, when or even where Siddiqui was
captured correspond with each other. The U.S. version claims she had maps of New York City targets in her handbag. Afghan officials claim the maps were of Afghan targets. What is known is that Siddiqui has been horribly
brutalized and has been held in total isolation now for a year in U.S.
prisons with terrible, life-threatening injuries. The case has generated outrage all over the Muslim world. Dr. Siddiqui has become a symbol of the thousands of those who have “disappeared†and been tortured by expanding U.S. wars in the region. Dr. Siddiqui has been brought into court in a wheelchair. This writer heard her tell the court again on Sept. 3, in her weak voice that she was tortured. She has been kept in extreme isolation and forced to listen to threats on the lives of her children. She was shown a picture of her son lying in a pool of his own blood.Siddiqui’s 12-year-old son has recently been released to her family. Her 11-year-old daughter is still unaccounted for. It is believed that her youngest, an infant at the time of Siddiqui’s disappearance, died in custody.
Court hearings on Siddiqui’s sanity ruled that she was fit to stand trial,
although she was found to be delusional and depressed. U.S. attorney William Ruskin stated to the court that information about where she was for five years is “not relevant to these proceedings.â€
Pakistan’s parliament unanimously passed a resolution that demanded
 immediate information on the whereabouts of Siddiqui’s three children and demanded her immediate repatriation to Pakistan. A parliamentary delegation came to visit her. Facing growing mass outrage in Pakistan, the government allocated $2 million for U.S. lawyers to aid in her defense.
At a Sept. 3 court appearance, Siddiqui’s trial date was set for Nov. 2.
 The courtroom was full of Pakistani and other Muslim supporters. Activists
from the Pakistan USA Freedom Forum and other organizations have mobilized on days when Dr. Siddiqui is brought into court.
In addition to Elaine Sharp, the lawyer hired by the family, the lawyers
hired by the Pakistani government are Linda Moreno and Charles Swift.
Another lawyer, Chad Hadgar, will assist the team, as will the
court-appointed defense attorney, Dawn Cardi. Moreno was a lawyer for Dr.
Sami al-Arian, a Palestinian unjustly imprisoned in the U.S.
The legal team was appointed over Siddiqui’s rejection of all lawyers.
 Linda Moreno said in a Sept. 3 press briefing that she felt that the legal
team would have to earn Dr. Siddiqui’s trust because: “After what she has been through she has no trust for the whole system. What has been done to Dr. Siddiqui is disgusting, degrading and humiliating. This is a Guantánamo case outside of Guantánamo. ... Dr. Siddiqui has been treated worse than the detainees at Guantánamo. ... We are confident that the evidence in this case will show that Dr. Siddiqui harmed no one. To the contrary, this 90-pound mother of three was shot and wounded herself, the alleged circumstances of which are not supported by evidence. Dr. Siddiqui harmed no one. She is innocent of these charges.â€
This is a case that must be taken up in full solidarity by the entire
progressive movement, including the women’s movement, the movement for immigrant rights and the broad movement against U.S. racism and war.
The demand for Siddiqui’s freedom must be combined with the demand for the release of all the secret documents on Siddiqui’s long imprisonment. The 130,000 pages of documents released by Holder confirm that the most detailed records were kept, with Nazi-like meticulousness, on the wrenching torture and racist abuse of countless prisoners held in U.S. secret prisons. The case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui exposes the whole sordid torturous role of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and the widening war in Pakistan. Support for her freedom and return to her family in Pakistan is a basic demand for human rights and justice for a woman who has been horrendously abused. A rally to support Siddiqui is planned for Nov. 2 in front of U.S. District Court, 500 Pearl Street in Manhattan.

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