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14A • Sunday, July 11, 2010 • Lansing State Journal
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Psychologists take stand against torture Group condemns abuse of a CIA detainee in 2002
their professional group not to take part in torturing detainees in U.S. custody. Now the American Psychological Association has taken the unprecedented step of supporting an attempt to strip ASSOCIATED PRESS the license of a psychologist accused of overseeing the torCOLUMBUS, Ohio — ture of a CIA detainee. Psychologists in the United The APA has told a TexStates have been warned by as licensing board in a let-
ter mailed July 1 that the allegations against Dr. James Mitchell represent “patently unethical” actions inconsistent with the organization’s ethics guidelines. APA spokeswoman Rhea Farberman confirmed the contents of the letter obtained by The Associated Press. The letter is the first of its kind in the board’s history, she said.
Mitchell is a retired Air Force psychologist who participated in the 2002 CIA interrogation of detainee Abu Zubaydah, according to a 2008 Senate Armed Services Committee report on the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody. Mitchell is not a member of the American Psychological Association. Interrogators in Thailand
subjected Zubaydah to severe cold, food and sleep deprivation, confinement in a narrow box and, with Mitchell participating, a simulated form of drowning known as waterboarding, according to the complaint filed with the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists. “Obviously, I’m not free to discuss any work I may
have done for the CIA,” Mitchell told the AP. He called Cox’s complaint libelous and said it is “riddled throughout with fabricated details, lies, distortions and inaccuracies.” Sherry Lee, the Texas board director, said complaints are shielded under Texas law and she could not comment.
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Cleaning up: A 5.4 earthquake hit the area of Palm Springs, Calif., on Wednesday.
Increased quake activity predicted in Calif. RONG-GONG LIN II MCT News Service
LOS ANGELES — There is growing concern among seismologists that the 7.2 earthquake in Mexicali, Mexico, on April 4 placed more pressure on Southern California’s faults, resulting in increased quake activity over the last three months. The latest evidence was Wednesday’s magnitude 5.4 earthquake that rolled from the mountains south of Palm Springs, leaving no major damage but rattling nerves throughout the region. Wednesday’s quake was centered in the San Jacinto fault zone — Southern California’s most active — which runs 100 miles from the border northwesterly toward Riverside and San Bernardino.
No signs of ending
Scientists had warned for some time that the Mexicali quake had transferred pressure from the Mexican border area toward the San Jacinto fault and nearby Elsinore fault — which runs 110 miles and could cause major damage in urban areas — making quakes there more likely. “The probability of a larger earthquake on those faults could be high within the next year or two,” said John Rundle, a physics and geology professor at the University of California, Davis. Rundle said the aftermath of the Mexicali quake is turning out to be significantly different than the aftermath of the two other large quakes to hit Southern California in the last two decades. Both the 7.3 Landers quake in 1992 and the 7.1 Hector Mine quake in 1999 in the Mojave Desert resulted in aftershocks that dissipated relatively quickly. By contrast, the Mexicali quake has been followed by aftershocks and “triggered earthquakes” that are showing no signs of ending.
High activity
Experts are particularly concerned because the northern edges of the Elsinore and San Jacinto fault zones line up, respectively, near the Whittier fault, which runs into Orange and Los Angeles counties, and the San Andreas fault. Both faults could produce catastrophic quakes. Smaller earthquakes continue at an unexpectedly high level far north of the Mexicali quake in Southern California’s Inland Empire. “Under normal circumstances, you have a rather rapid die-off of activity after an earthquake. But in this case, the activity seems to be motoring along at a fairly high level,” Rundle said.
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