Priests Protesting Torture at Fort Huachuca Jailed for Justice
By Bill Quigley
▐ TUCSON, Arizona — October 17, 2007 — Louis Vitale, 75, a Franciscan priest, and Steve Kelly, 58, a Jesuit priest, were each sentenced today to five months in federal prison for attempting to deliver a letter opposing the teaching of torture at Fort Huachuca in Arizona. Both priests were taken directly into jail from the courtroom after sentencing.
Fort Huachuca is the headquarters of military intelligence in the U.S. and the place where military and civilian interrogators are taught how to extract information from prisoners. The priests attempted to deliver their letter to Major General Barbara Fast, /see the photo/ commander of Fort Huachuca. Fast was previously the head of all military intelligence in Iraq during the atrocities of Abu Ghraib. More here ....
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readers comments! There is more!"Good for these two priests! We should all take the courage of our convictions this far, and maybe we will
pretty soon. Trespassing is a nothing conviction, particularly under these circumstances. Will the Pope support them?""The US does NOT torture. They use “enhanced interrogation techniques”. Just ask Pres. Bush (”We don’t do torture.”) Oh, and by the way, the only country currently using chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction is, you guessed it, the good ol’ US of A."
