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"It is not their patriotism, it is their judgment that has been so sorely lacking."
--Zell Miller 2004 RNC Keynote Address
UK/BM-176 TO UK/BM-180 TRANSLATION
PRISONS AND DETENTION CENTERS
IF AN INDICTMENT IS ISSUED AND THE TRIAL, BEGINS, THE BROTHER HAS TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING:
1 . At the beginning of the trial, once more the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by State Security [investigators ]before the judge.
2. Complain [to the court] of mistreatment while in prison.
3. Make arrangements for the brother ’s defense with the attorney, whether he was retained by the brother ’s family or court-appointed.
4. The brother has to do his best to know the names of the state security officers, who participated in his torture and mention their names to the judge.[These names may be obtained from brothers who had to deal with those officers in previous cases.]
5. Some brothers may tell and may be lured by the state security investigators to testify against the brothers [i.e. affirmation witness ], either by not keeping them together in the same prison during the trials, or by letting them talk to the media. In this case, they have to be treated gently, and should be offered good advice, good treatment, and pray that God may guide them.
6. During the trial, the court has to be notified of any mistreatment of the brothers inside the prison.
7. It is possible to resort to a hunger strike, but i t is a tactic that can either succeed or fail.
8. Take advantage of visits to communicate with brothers outside prison and exchange information that may be helpful to them in their work outside prison [according to what occurred during the investigations]. The importance of mastering the art of hiding messages is self evident here.
posted by BohemianLikeYOU at 5/17/2005 10:13:00 PM
2 Comments:
As Uncle Zell rightly observes, the heart of the problem for the liberal MSM is not perfidy but a stubborn blindness to the real state of the world if that reality is at odds with their cherished values. If they were simply fabricating stuff out of whole cloth, it would be easier to detect, dismiss and even prosecute. But errors of judgment, even repeated and fatal in its - I'll be charitable here -unintended consequences can be rationalized and defended on the ground that "we may have been wrong on process but we are still right about the core principles." This is why the CBS-Rather and Newsweek apologies were weak and missing real contrition. It will take a lot more than a few bad stories based on unreliable unnamed sources to change the fundamental culture of mainstream journalism. It will take a cultural revolution which I pray is already underway. If not, let the coup begin!
I hadn't seen that AlQaeda manual. That's fascinating.
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