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UK provided more support for CIA rendition flights than thought, says study

by News Sources 05.23.2013

The Guardian reports: The UK’s support for the CIA’s global rendition programme after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US was far more substantial than has previously been recognised, according to a new research project that draws on a vast number of publicly available data and documentation. Evidence gathered by The Rendition Project – [...]

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CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries ‘offered covert support’

by News Sources 02.05.2013

The Guardian reports: The full extent of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme has been laid bare with the publication of a report showing there is evidence that more than a quarter of the world’s governments covertly offered support. A 213-page report compiled by the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), a New York-based human rights organisation, [...]

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Milan appeals court convicts 3 Americans in CIA kidnap case, throwing out earlier acquittals

by News Sources 02.01.2013

The Associated Press reports: A Milan appeals court on Friday vacated acquittals for a former CIA station chief and two other Americans, and instead convicted them in the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan street as part of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program. The appeals court sentenced former CIA Rome station [...]

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Tony Blair has ‘no recollection’ of Libyan dissident’s rendition

by News Sources 04.12.2012

The Guardian reports: Tony Blair, prime minister at the time MI6 rendered Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a prominent Libyan dissident, to the Gaddafi regime in 2004, has said he had “no recollection” of the incident. But he said he was sure the operation would be investigated “as it should be”. Interviewed for BBC Radio 4′s World [...]

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Rendition ordeal that raises new questions about secret trials

by News Sources 04.09.2012

The Guardian reports: Just when Fatima Bouchar thought it couldn’t get any worse, the Americans forced her to lie on a stretcher and began wrapping tape around her feet. They moved upwards, she says, along her legs, winding the tape around and around, binding her to the stretcher. They taped her stomach, her arms and [...]

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Too many victims of the war on terror remain imprisoned across the world

by News Sources 01.10.2012

Mary Fitzgerald writes: It didn’t take long before one of the incentives offered to coax the Taliban to the negotiating table came to light: last week the Guardian carried reports of American plans to release several high-ranking Taliban leaders from Guantánamo Bay. They include Mullah Khair Khowa, a former interior minister, Noorullah Noori, a former [...]

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Inside Romania’s secret CIA prison

by News Sources 12.08.2011

The Associated Press reports: In northern Bucharest, in a busy residential neighborhood minutes from the center of Romania’s capital city, is a secret that the Romanian government has tried for years to protect. For years, the CIA used a government building — codenamed Bright Light — as a makeshift prison for its most valuable detainees. [...]

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CIA kidnapped, tortured “the wrong guy,” says former agency operative Glenn Carle

by News Sources 10.23.2011

Jason Leopold reports: Rob Richer, the No. 2 ranking official in the CIA's clandestine service, paid a visit to Glenn Carle's office in December 2002 and presented the veteran CIA operative with an urgent proposal. "I want you to go on a temporary assignment," Carle recalls Richer telling him. "It's important for the agency, it's [...]

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US detention post-9/11: Birth of a debacle

by News Sources 09.08.2011

Lisa Hajjar writes: Days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration started making decisions that led to the official authorisation of torture tactics, indefinite incommunicado detention and the denial of habeas corpus for people who would be detained at Guantánamo, Bagram, or “black sites” (secret prisons) run by the CIA; kidnappings, [...]

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In records of court case lie details of secret airlifts of terror suspects to CIA-run prisons

by News Sources 09.03.2011

The Associated Press reports: The secret airlift of terrorism suspects and American intelligence officials to CIA-operated overseas prisons via luxury jets was mounted by a hidden network of U.S. companies and coordinated by a prominent defense contractor, newly disclosed documents show. More than 1,700 pages of court files in a business dispute between two aviation [...]

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The CIA’s ties to the Gaddafi regime

by Paul Woodward 09.03.2011

The Wall Street Journal reports: The Central Intelligence Agency and Libyan intelligence services developed such a tight relationship during the George W. Bush administration that the U.S. shipped terror suspects to Libya for interrogation and suggested the questions they should be asked, according to documents found in Libya’s External Security agency headquarters. The relationship was [...]

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CIA prisons in Poland ‘illegal’

by News Sources 05.31.2011

SAPA reports: Secret prisons operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Polish territory violated international law and the Polish constitution according to legal experts, reported the daily Gazeta Wyborcza on Monday, citing sources close to an investigation. The CIA held terror suspects inside a military intelligence training base in Stare Kiejkuty, north-eastern Poland [...]

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Israel, extraordinary rendition and the strange case of Dirar Abu Sisi

by News Sources 04.22.2011

Richard Silverstein reports: On a cold Ukrainian winter night in mid-February 2011, a Gaza civil engineer named Dirar Abu Sisi was lying in bed in a railroad sleeper car traveling to Kiev to visit his brother, Yousef, whom he hadn’t seen in 15 years. Abu Sisi had come to Ukraine as a refugee applying for [...]

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Globalized kidnapping backed by the US

by News Sources 01.24.2011

Christian Science Monitor reports: They came for Ismail Abubakar at nightfall on Aug. 9, 2010, plucking him from an outdoor market near the mosque where he had just finished teaching young Kenyans how to read the Quran. The plainclothes Kenyan police shoved him into a car, took away his cellphone, hooded him, and drove him [...]

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Julian Assange’s fight to remain in the free world (outside the US)

by News Sources 01.12.2011

The Guardian reported yesterday: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, could be at “real risk” of the death penalty or detention in Guantánamo Bay if he is extradited to Sweden on accusations of rape and sexual assault, his lawyers claim. In a skeleton summary of their defence against attempts by the Swedish director of public [...]

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‘Disappeared’ Pakistanis — innocent and guilty alike — have fallen into a legal black hole

by Paul Woodward 12.31.2010

Without a single reference to President Obama’s drone war in Pakistan, extrajudicial detention of prisoners at Guantanamo, the torture of suspected terrorists, CIA-run secret prisons, rendition, presidential authorization to assassinate US citizens, or the United States’ long history of supporting governments that use their power to suppress political dissent by making their opponents “disappear,” the [...]

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Grave injustice: Maher Arar and unaccountable America

by Paul Woodward 06.27.2010

At Middle East Report Online, Lisa Hajjar writes: On June 14, the Supreme Court buried the prospect of justice for Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen of Syrian origin who was “extraordinarily rendered” by the United States (via Jordan) to Syria in 2002. Arar was suing the US officials who authorized his secret transfer, without charge, [...]

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Whatever happened to the CIA’s black sites?

by Paul Woodward 11.27.2009

Whatever happened to the CIA’s black sites? By David Corn, Mother Jones, November 24, 2009 Whatever happened to the so-called “black sites,” where suspected terrorists were held overseas by the CIA and submitted to harsh interrogations that included torture? On April 9, CIA chief Leon Panetta issued a statement notifying CIA employees that the agency [...]

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CIA detainees again an issue in Lithuania

by Paul Woodward 11.20.2009

CIA detainees again an issue in Lithuania By Craig Whitlock, Washington Post, November 20, 2009 Twice in the past three years, the Lithuanian Parliament investigated reports that the CIA secretly imprisoned al-Qaeda leaders in this Baltic country. Both times, legislators concluded that there was no evidence. Now the Parliament is investigating a third time, and [...]

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CIA secret ‘torture’ prison found at fancy horseback riding academy

by Paul Woodward 11.19.2009

CIA secret ‘torture’ prison found at fancy horseback riding academy By Brian Ross and Matthew Cole, ABC News, November 18, 2009 The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week. Where [...]

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Italy convicts 23 Americans for CIA renditions

by Paul Woodward 11.05.2009

Italy convicts 23 Americans for CIA renditions By Rachel Donadio, New York Times, November 5, 2009 In a landmark ruling, an Italian judge on Wednesday convicted a base chief for the Central Intelligence Agency and 22 other Americans, almost all C.I.A. operatives, of kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003. The [...]

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Is Bagram Obama’s new secret prison?

by Paul Woodward 09.16.2009

Is Bagram Obama’s new secret prison? By Andy Worthington, Antiwar.com, September 16, 2009 On Monday, one day after the New York Times and the Washington Post reported that the Obama administration was planning to introduce tribunals for the prisoners held in the U.S. prison at Bagram airbase, Afghanistan, the reason for the specifically timed leaks [...]

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U.S. tried to soften treaty on detainees

by Paul Woodward 09.08.2009

U.S. tried to soften treaty on detainees By R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post, September 8, 2009 From 2003 to 2006, the Bush administration quietly tried to relax the draft language of a treaty meant to bar and punish “enforced disappearances” so that those overseeing the CIA’s secret prison system would not be criminally prosecuted under [...]

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New CIA docs detail brutal “extraordinary rendition” process

by Paul Woodward 08.30.2009

New CIA docs detail brutal “extraordinary rendition” process By Scott Horton, Huffington Post, August 28, 2009 Deep among the documents released to the ACLU on Monday afternoon was a curious memo dated 30 December 2004 and directed to Dan Levin, then acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. The fax cover sheet [...]

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