Anwar Sadat Quotes
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
Anwar Sadat, 1918-1981, President of Egypt, Nobel Peace Laureate, Attributed
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Two years later the CIA adopted an official formal policy against inhumane treatment during interrogation and the manual was changed.
On a tour of America, Dickens visited Eastern State Penitentiary, a Pennsylvania prison opened in 1829 which was supposedly a “modern” reform in law enforcement. Rather than work gangs or mandatory factory work and filthy living conditions, this was the first “penitentiary” in America. The guilty convicts would be in a small clean but bare cell for all but 1 hour or less a day, and the only thing in the cell other than soap and a toothbrush was a Bible. The convict was supposed to spend his entire sentence reading the Bible and being penitent for his crimes. It destroyed most inmates mentally until the Supreme Court ruled in 1890 that total solitary confinement was unconstitutional.
At that time in American History, the George W. Bush Justice Department had a small team of lawyers who wrote a legal brief that defined torture in such a way that many of the most common forms of torture were no longer legal torture, even though they had been torture in American law and were again torture after this embarrassing episode of American history. The renamed techniques were called “enhanced interrogation” and a few terrorist suspects were subjected to it before the rules and laws were changed and the “legal opinions” nullified. The FBI and military intelligence did not use the so called enhanced interrogation techniques as they felt that torture produced unreliable intelligence as the victim will say anything the questioner wants to hear to end the torture. They also thought the Justice department memo was sloppy and defective legal work. Senator McCain was a particular expert on torture in that he had, during the Vietnam War, been captured and imprisoned for 7 years during which he had been tortured on several occasions.
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian politician who served as the third President of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. In 1978, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter, for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize.
