School of the Americas rebadged for comfort

2000 The School of the Americas (SOA), in Fort Benning, Georgia, a USA army facility that critics have labelled a school for dictators, torturers and assassins, closed under that name, to reopen on January 17, 2001 as the 'Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation'.

It is widely believed that much of the torture and humiliation of prisoners as documented in America's crusades in Afghanistan and the Middle East, came from techniques taught in School of the Americas (first tried out in Latin America) ...

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