Many actors in the "War on Terror"

By Fiorella Bafundo

In today’s Counterpunch Magazine, Joanne Mariner, a human rights lawyer, talked about the undervalued and violations of human rights in the“War on Terror" carried out by the United States. In his view, the huge atrocities and methods used by the U.S during this war, such as torture during the interrogations, people disappeared, and imprisonment without trials and evidence, could not have been done without the assistance and collaboration of other governments besides the U.S government.
Therefore, he lists “some examples of this abusive collaboration,” including the governments of Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Indonesia and Jordan, which through their intelligence agencies, have collaborated with the CIA to get suspicious people from different countries around the globe, using torture and immoral methods to get information even when those detainees did not know anything relevant. Marnier also lists some names of detainees and their hard stories, most of who ended in the Guantamo Bay prison sooner or later.