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Consortium News
August 10, 2017
... to expose torture and extraordinary rendition related to the war in Iraq. .... The security services required a strong terrorist threat in order toÃÂ ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
August 7, 2017
What about those abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, Guantanamo Bay and "extraordinary rendition" of terrorist suspects? Or the 2008-09 greatÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
August 2, 2017
In essence, 'extraordinary rendition' is about the kidnapping of a ... Thirdly, according to one of the prisoner's lawyer, the U.S. would also haveÃÂ ...
Northwestern University NewsCenter
July 17, 2017
... widespread agreement that the program of extraordinary rendition, .... and our national security team could lead to a major terrorist attack.
The Asian Pacific Post
July 11, 2017
Extraordinary rendition to torture sites was a disaster. ... including his father who conscripted him into a terrorist group, and his mother who let itÃÂ ...
CNN
March 1, 2017
... as extraordinary rendition, which occurred during President George W. ... court for their role in seizing the suspected terrorist in Italy in 2003.
Consortium News
December 31, 1999
... prosecutors investigating the extraordinary rendition of Abu Omar. .... he is a political prisoner and must be released and compensated for allÃÂ ...
The Hill (blog)
December 31, 1999
The Qataris had a history of terrorist sympathies and one cabinet member ... therefore, to do an 'extraordinary rendition,' a snatch by a US team,ÃÂ ...
Open Democracy
March 19, 2017
Egypt, for example, was a key partner in the CIA's extraordinary rendition programme during the Bush-era War on Terror.
The Guardian
March 15, 2017
So too did the International Committee of the Red Cross. Meanwhile, British government ministers were repeatedly denying that anyone captured by British forces in Iraq had been subjected to extraordinary rendition; the then foreign secretary, Jack ...
New York Times
March 15, 2017
WASHINGTON - In December 2005, Congress handed President George W. Bush a significant defeat by tightening legal restrictions against torture in a law called the Detainee Treatment Act. Soon afterward, Neil M. Gorsuch - then a top Justice Department ...
News & Observer
March 15, 2017
Zelter holds a photo of a detainee who is one of the cases detailed in a lengthy report from the UNC law school outlining what a team of lawyers and law students there believe are violations of state and federal laws by the employees of Aero ...
The Marshalltown
March 10, 2017
Though there's no official definition, extraordinary rendition is described in a 2013 report by The Open Society Justice Initiative as 'the transfer - without legal process - of a detainee to the custody of a foreign government for purposes of ...
The Canary
March 9, 2017
... is legal and likely. This is also known as 'extraordinary rendition'. ... They have denied wrongdoing, for example, by claiming the acts involved foreign states and actors, such as in the well-known case of Libyan prisoner, Abdel Hakim-Belhaj. But ...
The Independent
March 5, 2017
French society is fractured with stark economic, social and ethnic divisions and is still reeling from a number of terrorist attacks, which have resulted in a perpetual state of emergency (as in the US) - all of which plays into the hands of Marine Le ...
The Guardian
March 4, 2017
The government has been accused of attempting to bury the truth about Britain's role in the CIA's extraordinary rendition process by seeking to have a case, brought by two men detained by the US, heard in secret. It is the first time that a civil claim ...
Lankaweb
March 3, 2017
When a prisoner was hit on the head with a sledge hammer he falls down and then goes in to seizure with violent body movements says Rohitha Munasinge who witnessed such events.
Just Security
March 1, 2017
Italy commuted the sentence of former CIA officer Sabrina de Sousa, opening the way for her to serve her sentence outside of prison and bringing a resolution to a ten-year legal battle over the extraordinary rendition of a terrorism suspect by US ...
Litchfield County Times
March 1, 2017
I hear them calling me a "biological terrorist," an unusual combination of two different E.coli bacteria cells. One even referred to me as a "conspiracy of mutants.
NPR
March 1, 2017
The United States used "extraordinary rendition" to grab and transport hundreds of people thought to be connected to terrorism in the years after the Sept.
The Wire
February 27, 2017
The strikes largely obviated the need for the controversial extraordinary rendition program that whisked suspects off to secret sites for interrogation and torture.
Lawfare (blog)
February 23, 2017
Sabrina De Sousa, who holds dual American and Portuguese citizenship and moved to Portugal in 2015, was one of 26 Americans convicted in absentia by the Italian judicial system for the 2003 extraordinary rendition of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also ...
Gulf Today
February 22, 2017
Trump's favourable view of torture may mean that fewer Americans would oppose the re-establishment of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" programme, an idea the administration floated in a draft of an executive order and later backed away from.
Huffington Post UK
February 22, 2017
In a 300-word statement, a spokesman for Mail newspapers said: "To accuse the Daily Mail newspaper of hypocrisy in this case is monstrous.
Gulf Today
February 22, 2017
Trump's favourable view of torture may mean that fewer Americans would oppose the re-establishment of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" programme, an idea the administration floated in a draft of an executive order and later backed away from.
Fair Observer
February 22, 2017
The strikes largely obviated the need for the controversial extraordinary rendition program that whisked suspects off to secret sites for interrogation and torture.
Raw Story
February 21, 2017
John McCain. Trump's favorable view of torture may mean that fewer Americans would oppose the re-establishment of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program, an idea the administration floated in a draft of an executive order and later backed away ...
Raw Story
February 21, 2017
John McCain. Trump's favorable view of torture may mean that fewer Americans would oppose the re-establishment of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program, an idea the administration floated in a draft of an executive order and later backed away ...
Los Angeles Times
February 19, 2017
Trump's favorable view of torture may mean that fewer Americans would oppose the reestablishment of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program, an idea the administration floated in a draft of an executive order and later backed away from. That ...
Huffington Post
February 17, 2017
The strikes largely obviated the need for the controversial extraordinary rendition program that whisked suspects off to secret sites for interrogation and torture.
Eurasia Review
February 16, 2017
I hear them calling me a "biological terrorist," an unusual combination of two different E.coli bacteria cells. One even referred to me as a "conspiracy of mutants.
Rewire
February 16, 2017
The time Gorsuch spent there on detention and detainee treatment issues, as well as his background in conservative religious jurisprudence, should raise raise flags for the years under President Donald Trump.
Just Security
February 15, 2017
It is still only early days of the new administration, but President Trump has already advanced policies that violate international law and threaten to disrupt longstanding alliances with partners that the U.S.
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
February 15, 2017
... between the reactionary right and terrorist groups like Isis. Each terrorist act killing hundreds of civilians in France, Germany and Spain especially in the last 10 years, drives more people into the arms of the right and facilitates the deepening ...
Open Democracy
February 15, 2017
The cases of Belhaj and Rahmatullah involved litigation of UK involvement in the US-led extraordinary rendition system. Image credit: Arun Kundnani.
Midland Daily News
February 10, 2017
An example of Extraordinary Rendition is the case of Amir Meshal, a U.S. born citizen of New Jersey. He was suspected of terrorist activity and disappeared for four months where he states he was threatened with torture and death. This is an example of ...
Geopoliticalmonitor.com
February 8, 2017
Despite Trump's oft-repeated quip that he would take out the families of terrorist suspects - a clear infringement of the Geneva Convention that amounts to nothing less than a war crime - there is one black swan event that could make him rethink the ...
Eurasia Review
February 8, 2017
Despite Trump's oft-repeated quip that he would take out the families of terrorist suspects - a clear infringement of the Geneva Convention that amounts to nothing less than a war crime - there is one black swan event that could make him rethink the ...
World Socialist Web Site
February 6, 2017
The Central Intelligence Agency announced February 2 that its new deputy director will be Gina Haspel, a 32-year CIA veteran who ran one of the first secret prisons where Al Qaeda suspects were subjected to torture in the period following the September ...
Common Dreams
February 3, 2017
played a direct role in the CIA's "extraordinary rendition program," under which captured militants were handed to foreign governments and held at secret facilities, where they were tortured by agency personnel.
Huffington Post Canada
January 30, 2017
On December 29, 2013, Egyptian security forces arrested award-winning journalist Mohamed Fahmy in a dramatic raid on Cairo's Marriott Hotel and imprisoned him on charges of being a terrorist, fabricating false news, and undermining state security. The ...
Just Security
January 26, 2017
Likewise, while the United States cannot be brought before European courts or the European Court of Human Rights, individuals who have been subjected to extraordinary rendition have successfully filed claims against European states that played a part ...
Reason (blog)
January 26, 2017
However, his Secretary of Defense James Mattis has vocally opposed such tactics, and for a time at least, seemed to have convinced Trump that there were more effective methods of securing a detainee's cooperation. ... Lake writes that Presidents ...
TIME
January 26, 2017
(LONDON) - It took more than a year's worth of beatings, sleep deprivation, psychological abuse and threats to his family before former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg said he cracked and confessed to being a member of the al-Qaeda terror network ...
Voice of America
January 26, 2017
Black sites and extraordinary rendition remain explosive issues for European governments, which were burned in a political backlash when their cooperation with the High Value Detainee Program became known publicly. Ministers in the government ofÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
January 24, 2017
The CIA became executor, under President George W. Bush's watch, of extraordinary rendition and torture. Now, the intelligence community is again creating its form of ... Counter-terrorist efforts are to be beefed up. But the greatest question there is ...
lareviewofbooks
January 24, 2017
DURING HIS CAMPAIGN to become president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump publicly asked himself: "Would I approve waterboarding?
Just Security
January 24, 2017
These include "enhanced interrogation" (which the Court has found constitutes torture) and "extraordinary rendition," which build on long-established case law and principles.
Red Flag
January 23, 2017
Echoing Netanyahu's slanders against the Palestinians, Assad says that indiscriminate mass killings in Aleppo are justified because anyone who opposes the regime is an Islamic terrorist. Just as Zionists do, the supporters of the Assad dictatorship say ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 2, 2016
It could be a terrorist attack within the United States. It could be ... The section also permits the military to carry out extraordinary rendition of U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military detention centers ...
