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Published: Tuesday April 8, 2008
The CIA secretly transported at least 14 war on terror detainees to Jordan between 2001 and 2004, making it the top “rendition” destination at that time, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
http://www.atlargely.com/…
Yes, I have no idea what this means and yes, I have a very bad feeling about this death:
“MANCHESTER, England (AP) - A city police chief who led an investigation into charges that Britain cooperated with secret CIA flights to transport terrorism suspects without formal proceedings has been found dead, his deputy said Tuesday.
Manchester Chief [...]
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By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Posted on March 11, 2008, Printed on March 11, 2008
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband issued an embarrassing apology to members of Parliament last month. Despite “earlier explicit assurances” to the contrary, he admitted, two planes carrying prisoners of the U.S. “war on terror” had landed on the British-owned island of Diego Garcia [...]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/…
Indian Ocean atoll Diego Garcia was used to hold US suspects, human rights investigator claims
This article appeared in the Observer on Sunday March 02 2008 on p6 of the News section. It was last updated at 01:19 on March 02 2008.
Britain’s denials that its territories have been used for ‘extraordinary rendition’ were dramatically undermined last [...]
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By Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate
Posted on February 28, 2008, Printed on February 29, 2008
On the Sunday following Sept. 11, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney told the truth. On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he said regarding plans to pursue the perpetrators of that attack: “We have to work the dark side, if you will. [...]
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Think Progress~Ben
Jack Cloonan, who spent 25 years as an FBI special agent and interrogated members of al Qaeda, recently told Foreign Policy that he has “been hard pressed to find a situation where anybody” can say “that they’ve ever encountered the ticking bomb scenario” when interrogating terrorists. He said it is a “red herring” and [...]
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Satyam
Earlier today, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said to the country’s Parliament that he was “very sorry” for previous denials from British officials about U.S. “rendition flights” refueling on British bases. Today, the United States apologized for providing false information to Britain:
“We came up with fresh information that in short order we shared with [...]
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CIA Confirms That Secret Flights Carrying Terror Suspects Refueled in British Territory
PAMELA HESS
AP News
Feb 21, 2008 14:00 EST
CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged Thursday that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory, despite repeated U.S. assurances that none of the secret flights since the Sept. 11 attacks had used British airspace or soil.
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by ohwilleke
Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 09:32:12 PM PST
Promoted from the diaries, with minor editing ~ smintheus
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California held yesterday in the case of Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. that the state secrets doctrine bars all suits against anyone involving “allegations of covert U.S. military or [...]
By Maya Harris, ACLU Northern California
Posted on February 10, 2008, Printed on February 11, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/76543/
Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian citizen and legal resident of the United Kingdom, was abducted in 2002 by masked men and flown, blindfolded, from Pakistan to Morocco. For 18 months, Mohamed was regularly beaten into unconsciousness by his interrogators. After a scalpel [...]
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them…George Orwell
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