Outlawed!
Written by Haitham Sabbah on 19. September 2006, 0853hrs // Part of Haitham Sabbah's adventure in 911, Human Rights, Terrorism, USA, Video // Other posts by Haitham Sabbah
Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the “War on Terror”
El Masri is NOT the same German person who was released from Gitmo recently…. he is a German citizen who was kidnapped in Europe and brought to a secret prison, months later dropped off in a forest somewhere: they had made a mistake in identity…..[Hat tip: Editerette13]
Human rights groups and several public inquiries in Europe have found the U.S. government, with the complicity of numerous governments worldwide, to be engaged in the illegal practice of extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and torture.
The U.S. government-sponsored program of renditions is an unlawful practice in which numerous persons have been illegally detained and secretly flown to third countries, where they have suffered additional human rights abuses including torture and enforced disappearance. No one knows the exact number of persons affected, due to the secrecy under which the operations are carried out.
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September 20th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Here are some more articles on this subject:
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/10761
For Kimmy and others:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060912/wl_canada_nm/canada_security_canada_rendition_col
Interview with former CIA officer. Michael Scheuer, involved with the rendition program, concerning Europe’s involvement
begun under CLINTON, http://www.counterpunch.org/kleine01072006.html
Rice defends the rendition program (defense, the US does not torture suspects, HA!!! We just have other nations do it for us, interestingly Syria is a participant but we don’t even talk to them HA!!)
http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/Archive/2005/Dec/05-436751.html
Letter from Human Rights Watch to foreign ministers
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/14/usdom13738_txt.htm
“Torture by Proxy”
http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/articles/050214on_onlineonly01
Under US law, torture is illegal SUPPOSEDLY, yet we have politicians and others openly supporting the use of torture as a means to obtain intelligence. Gitmo is a fine example of a “nice detention center”. It is presented to the American public as a model program when we all know just how many people have been imprisoned there unjustly and released after years of detention with no legal hearings because we’ve gotten around that little legality also. With rendition, we use third countries to torture and even try to change the meaning of the Geneva restrictions on this practice. The world sees this and what do they say? Well, that all depends on whether you are a potential victim or a potentional user of this method. Does it work? It works in one significant manner, to further degrade America’s standing by proudly parading hypocrasy. It also works in another significant manner, it creates MORE terrorism thus keeping these fascist monsters in business because they use it as their justification.
Quite simply put, in my own humble opinion, it is America and America alone who is fueling this phenomena OPENLY. The Bush administration’s brazen policy is gobbled up by Americans who are in a constant fear-mode AND see America as non-complicent in the problem. This is the craziest damn ideology which completedly defies all logic. I don’t know what else to say, as an American I fear my own country more than I do a terrorist attack. How many more Khaled El Masris are there out there? I am absolutely sure there are many.