[Hopefully, the Bush regime is next. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rove need to spend a little time in Abu Ghraib, subjected to their own interrogation techniques. After all, we need to learn the extent of their involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - The head of Chile's secret police under Gen. Augusto Pinochet was sentenced to three years in prison for the killing of a teacher opposed to the dictator's regime.
Retired Gen. Manuel Contreras, who is already serving a 12-year term for a political killing, was sentenced Monday for the 1976 killing of Julia Retamal. Retamal was arrested in August 1976 and was last seen at a detention and torture center used by Contreras' feared secret police force.
Contreras, 79, served an eight-year prison term ending in 2003 for the 1976 bombing death in Washington of Orlando Letelier, a prominent opponent of Pinochet.
In January, he returned to prison after being convicted in the 1976 disappearance of another dissident.
He faces dozens of other criminal cases related to human rights abuses.
Pinochet, who has never been convicted, faces possible prosecution in two cases. One relates to the killing of 15 dissidents by Contreras' secret police; the other is on charges of tax evasion for multimillion dollar secret bank accounts he held abroad.
