Syria blasts 'hypocritical' US for its addition to torture blacklist

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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iKsBkuxZjW-9sOiib-qg9KpUoEGw

DAMASCUS (AFP) — Syria accused the United States of hypocrisy on Wednesday after it added the Damascus regime to a blacklist of "the world's most systematic human rights violators."

The foreign ministry said that the history of abuses by US personnel in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the allegations surrounding the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba denied Washington any right to set itself up as an arbiter of human rights.

"The assessment made by the United States in its report is not objective and is based on political considerations," a ministry statement said.

Washington was itself responsible for "flagrant human rights violations... in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib," the ministry said.

[Junkdrawer]

1. That's no way to treat a vendor.

The US should be ashamed...

[Buzz Clik]

2. Ah, yes. The Bush legacy.

Will they have a torture wing in his new megabuck library?