Extraordinary Rendition

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• Saudi Arabia denies it participated in e…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 550
  Saudi Arabia denies it participated in extraordinary rendition to the US of Iranian scientist. a
  2 days ago

• Saudi Arabia participates in extraordina…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 550
  Saudi Arabia participates in extraordinary rendition during Hajj, ‘hands missing Iran nuclear scientist to US.’ Scientist was kidnapped while going on Mecca pilgrimage. An Iranian nuclear scientist who went missing in Saudi Arabia has been “handed over by Riyadh to Washington,” Mehr news agency reported on ...
  3 days ago

• Human Rights Maps (74): The War on Terror, Extraordinary Renditions and Secret Detentions

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 504
  ( source , click on the image to enlarge) More on rendition , arbitrary arrest and habeas corpus . More human rights maps here . Posted in human rights maps, terror, torture Tagged: 9-11, al-Qaida, anti-terrorism, arbitrary arrest, extraordinary rendition, habeas corpus, map, maps, rendition, terrorism, ...
  3 days ago

• Extraordinary rendition - Another British case?

  
  Barnacle Bill — Authority: 136
  The Beeb reports that another case of extraordinary rendition involving Britain has come to light, in the case of two men handed over by British forces in Iraq, with them ending up being held by American forces in Afghanistan. Extraordinary rendition became the "I was only obeying orders" excuse of Americas war on ...
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• A Petition for ‘ The Disappeared’, as in United States Military Veterans

  
  Constitutionalert — Authority: 126
  . A group made by deported veterans and supporters to network, inform, and advocate for all members of all branches of the U.S. Military who serve or have served our nation who face deportation or have been deported by our government. 1. To advocate for the amendment of the Immigration and Nationality Act to include ...
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• UK Judges Compare Binyam Mohamed’s Torture To That Of Abu Zubaydah

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 565
  Binyam Mohamed is a British resident, seized in Pakistan in April 2002, who was held in Pakistani custody, supervised by US agents, until July 2002, when he was sent by the CIA to be tortured for 18 months in Morocco, and was tied in with a “dirty bomb plot” that never even existed . After his ordeal in Morocco, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Back to Afghan-Paki-stan-BKA [Afghanistan] With More Troops Off to Be Murdered, Maimed and Aflicted With PTSD, Merci OBAMA!

  
  Constitutionalert — Authority: 126
  Iraq Veterans Against War - Winter Soldier "We Dont Torture", Sociopath in Chief quote. Young Teen Flees from a Car Bombing. THAT OR THIS DOES IT?? AT LAST>>>>>>>>>>>>> Then Senator Barack Obama really got our grassroots asses moving, huh? Never donated to a ...
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• GAME PERMIT VIRTUAL WAR CRIMES————WTF?

  
  Constitutionalert — Authority: 126
  Games ‘permit’ virtual war crimes MPs rowed over scenes in Modern Warfare 2 in which civilians were killed.   Video games depicting war have come under fire for flouting laws governing armed conflicts. Human rights groups played various games to see if any broke humanitarian laws that govern what is ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, The Madness of the Military Commissions

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 565
  With just over two months to go until President Obama’s deadline for the closure of Guantanamo , the administration has finally woken up to the necessity of actually doing something to facilitate the prison’s closure by announcing on Friday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other prisoners accused of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lawyers Allege Ongoing ‘Dragnet’ Surveillance

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  Attorney General Eric Holder (WDCpix) On October 30, the Justice Department for the first time applied its new “state secrets” policy to a case charging the government with breaking the law. Open government advocates hoping for a significant change in the government’s stance toward secrecy in national security ...
  4 weeks ago

• Extraordinary Rendition, The Story of Abu Omar, Ctd.

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 504
  This post is by guest writer Robert Nijssen who also has his own blog . Abu Omar is an imam from Egyptian origin, who was kidnapped by the CIA from the streets of Milan. For more information on his kidnapping please refer to my original post here . Last week the Italian trial against the involved CIA operatives was ...
  4 weeks ago

• Editorial: A National Disgrace

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 456
  Two courts, one in Italy and one in the United States, ruled recently on the Bush administration’s practice of extraordinary rendition, which is the kidnapping of people and sending them to other countries for interrogation — and torture. The Italian court got it right. The American court got it miserably wrong. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Extraordinary rendition of a U.S. citizen - it could happen to you...!

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 133
  note: mr. meshal was never charged ... "U.S. officials repeatedly threatened Mr. Meshal with torture, forced disappearance, and execution in order to coerce him to confess to wrongdoing in which he had not engaged and to associations that he did not have," according to the lawsuit [the suit, brought on behalf of ...
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• Editorial: A National Disgrace

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  A court’s overt disregard for the central role of judges in policing executive branch excesses has frightening implications for safeguarding civil liberties.
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• American Sues F.B.I., Saying He Was Detained in Africa

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Amir Meshal said he was detained and mistreated in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia in 2007 with the approval of the United States.
  4 weeks ago

• Craig Murray and John Pilger on the “War on Terror”

  
  chtodelat news — Authority: 464
  The Fabulous Craig Murray , “ Uzbek Terror and the UK/USA” (interview on The Real News ; watch Craig’s recent talk on the same grim topic here and here ) John Pilger , “Breaking the Australian Silence” (Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech): Last July, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said ...
  4 weeks ago

• Italy’s calling ‘extraordinary rendition’ illegal puts onus on U.S.

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 133
  Los Angeles editorial “Extrajudicial detentions” and “extraordinary renditions” were nicely scrubbed terms for the Bush administration’s policy of capturing suspects in one country and spiriting them away to another, where they were harshly interrogated and even tortured. Now an Italian court has called ...
  4 weeks ago

• CIA agents guilty of Kidnapping

  
  G2 Visual Design Salad and Other Healthy Appetizers — Authority: 141
  This is a story that hasn’t received anywhere near as much attention as it should have:An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans – all but one of them CIA agents – and two Italian secret agents for the 2003 kidnap of a Muslim cleric.BBC Article for a good medium length summary.The CIA personnel were involved ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mixed week on renditions accountability

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 479
  This week saw two contrasting results emerging from courts in the United States and Italy regarding extraordinary rendition : ► In the United States, the case of Maher Arar (right) was once more rejected by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. (prior IntLawGrrls posts here ) ► In Italy, however, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and ...
  5 weeks ago

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