Is Torture Ever the Right Thing to Do? ; Britain's Alleged Role in Cia 'Torture Flights', Often Bound to and From Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, has Been Condemned by the European Parliament in a Scathing Report. But Can Such Measures Ever Be Justified. Here Midland Consultant Dr Steve Curtis Explains the Issue Is Not As Cut and Dried As We Would Like to Think

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Right out of the blue, torture has made it back into the political arena. Until relatively recently, it was one of those things that was confined to the University campus and not a matter for mainstream debate.

But the conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan has seen the issue hurled headlong back on to the front pages and the political commentators of our times are having a field day.

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Is Torture Ever the Right Thing to Do? ; Britain's Alleged Role in Cia 'Torture Flights', Often Bound to and From Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, has Been Condemned by the European Parliament in a Scathing Report. But Can Such Measures Ever Be Justified. Here Midland Consultant Dr Steve Curtis Explains the Issue Is Not As Cut and Dried As We Would Like to Think

As always in these matters, most of us will fall back on the thoughts of the great and the good, but that isn't to say that the official version of events will always give you the clearest picture.

Sometimes we can learn more from the words of the nondescript bystander t...

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