Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Friday, May 19, 2006
UN Tells US To End Torture and Close Guantanamo
The Times of London reports that the UN tells America to end torture and close Guantanamo. The ten members of the UN Committee Against Torture will release an 11 page report today calling for the shutdown of Guantanamo and for an end to the use of torture and cruel treatment. "The panel has no legal power to enforce the US to abide by any of its demands but it wields considerable moral authority." Apparently some of the charges if true, might be in violation of international law. I don't know which countries are members of the panel. Thank you Bush. Bleech.
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