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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2005
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Countries disagrees on torture
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gela Merkel said the United States had admitted making a mistake in the case of al-Masri, a German who contended in a lawsuit in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday that the CIA wrongly imprisoned and tortured him.
BY WILL LESTER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Most Americans and a majority of people in Britain, France and South Korea say torturing terrorism suspects is justified at least in rare instances, according to AP-Ipsos polling.
Officials with the European Union and in at least a half-dozen European countries are investigating reports of secret U.S. interrogations in Eastern Europe.
The United States has drawn criticism from human rights groups and many governments, especially in Europe, for its treatment of terror suspects. President Bush and other top officials have said the U.S. does not torture, but some suspects in American custody have alleged they were victims of severe mistreatment.
on whether torture is ever justified. Most people opposed torture under any circumstances in Spain and Italy.
The poll, conducted in the United States and eight of its closest allies, found that in Canada, Mexico and Germany people are divided
"I don't think we should go out and string everybody up by their thumbs until somebody talks. But if there is definitely a good reason to get an answer, we should do whatever it takes," said Billy Adams, a retiree from Texas.
In America, 61 percent of those surveyed agreed torture is justified, at least on rare occasions. Almost nine in 10 in South Korea and just over half in France and Britain also felt that way.
Accusations of torture, reports of secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe and claims of shadowy flights carrying terror suspects have further strained U.S. relations with some European countries.
"Human beings, as well as their rights, have to be defended, no matter what individuals are suspected of, or charged for," said Mariella Salvi, who works for a humanitarian organization in Rome.
The disagreements make cooperation on law enforcement and counterterrorism more difficult, said Lee Feinstein of the Council on Foreign Relations, a group of scholars and other specialists in foreign policy.
During a visit to Germany on Tuesday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was peppered with questions about U.S. anti-terrorism policies, including the five-month detention of Lebanese-born Khaled al-Masri and reports of secret CIA prisons and use of European airports and airspace to move terror suspects. German Chancellor An-
Rice aggressively defended U.S. tactics against terrorism as tough but legal. She has refused to comment publicly on the reports of secret CIA prisons.
In the poll, about two-thirds of the people living in Canada, Mexico, South Korea and Spain said they would oppose allowing U.S. officials to secretly interrogate terror suspects in their countries.
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