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− | Extraordinary rendition is the forced transfer of individuals from one legal jurisdiction to another without recourse to legal proceedings such as [[extradition]]. It is carried out in by the [[CIA]] in secret, often combined with a kidnapping ( | + | Extraordinary rendition is the forced transfer of individuals from one legal jurisdiction to another without recourse to legal proceedings such as [[extradition]]. It is carried out in by the [[CIA]] in secret, often combined with a kidnapping (for example, [[Mordechai Vanunu]]), and applied to cases where the purpose of the transfer is to subject the individual to [[torture]] in connection with the so-called [[War on Terror]]. The number of cases is not publicly acknowledged, but is estimated to be at least several hundred. |
==== Extraordinary renditions and black sites in Europe ==== | ==== Extraordinary renditions and black sites in Europe ==== |
Revision as of 06:47, 24 August 2014
Perpetrators | CIA, Mossad |
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Exposed by | Dick Marty, Derek Pasquill, Dana Priest |
Interest of | Jeffrey Kaye |
Extraordinary rendition is the forced transfer of individuals from one legal jurisdiction to another without recourse to legal proceedings such as extradition. It is carried out in by the CIA in secret, often combined with a kidnapping (for example, Mordechai Vanunu), and applied to cases where the purpose of the transfer is to subject the individual to torture in connection with the so-called War on Terror. The number of cases is not publicly acknowledged, but is estimated to be at least several hundred.
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Extraordinary renditions and black sites in Europe
In January 2005, Swiss senator Dick Marty, representative at the Council of Europe in charge of the European investigations, concluded that 100 people had been kidnapped by the CIA in Europe — thus qualifying as ghost detainees — and then rendered to a country where they may have been tortured. Marty qualified the sequestration of Abu Omar in Milan in February 2003 as a "perfect example of extraordinary rendition."[2][3][4]
The Guardian reported on 5 December 2005, that the government of the UK is "guilty of breaking international law if it knowingly allowed secret CIA "rendition" flights of terror suspects to land at UK airports, according to a report by American legal scholars."[5][6]
“Extraordinary rendition” victims on Wikispooks
Title | Description |
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William Francis Buckley | CIA Station Chief in Beirut, captured by Hezbollah. |
Khalid El-Masri | Kidnapped for months by the CIA after a case of mistaken identity. His lawsuit was dismissed on grounds of "national security" |
Álvaro Gomez-Hurtado | Spooky Colombian diplomat who attended Le Cercle. Assassinated in 1995 |
Robert Nairac | British soldier who was abducted and killed by the IRA in 1977 while visiting a bar in South Armagh. |
Abu Omar | An Egyptian cleric who was kindnapped in Milan by the CIA in 2003 and sent to Egypt where he was subject to torture. |
Gul Rahman | Kidnapped and tortured to death by the CIA. |
Hanns Martin Schleyer | |
René Schneider | The commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army at the time of the 1970 Chilean presidential election, when he was assassinated during a botched kidnapping attempt. |
Aafia Siddiqui | American-educated Pakistani cognitive neuroscientist, tortured and raped for years by US forces, now serving a life sentence after a trial of a highly questionable nature. |
Ivan Stambolić | Retired Serbian politician killed for murky motives |
Mordechai Vanunu | The former Israeli nuclear technician who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986.He was captured by Mossad, kidnapped and subsequently imprisoned for 18 years, including 11 years in solitary confinement. He continues to be subject to harrassment and forbidden to speak to foreigners or to leave Israel. |
Abu Zubaydah | A prisoner of the deep state, subjected to torture, denied legal process, still in detention for over 20 years. |
Related Quotations
Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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Black site | “They would have had to all three tie their hands and feet together, shove rags down their throats, put a mask over their face, made a noose, hung it from the ceiling on the side of the cellblock, jumped into the noose, and hung themselves simultaneously. In a cellblock where guards are ordered to check on detainees every four minutes. They had a policy that if a detainee is hunger-striking, he cannot be interrogated, I believe the number-one mission in JTF-GTMO (Joint Task Force Guantanamo) at the time was, stop the hunger strikes at all costs. I think you get rid of the people that provoked the hunger strikes and you get rid of the problem. After the deaths, there were no hunger strikes for a long period of time.” | Joseph Hickman | 2015 |
Black site | “A small group of people in Johnston County NC are investigating their state’s role in the CIA's torture and rendition program. Last fall, they had a series of public hearings on the subject and on May 7th they're planning to meet with their commissioners in an effort to compel their county's very conservative board of commissioners to issue a ban on the use of public resources for rendition or torture, and to publicly acknowledge what they found: that a CIA contractor called Aero operating out of the local county airport, handled some 80% of rendition flights between September 2001 and March 2004.” | Vice News | 2018 |
Black site | “The European Parliament denounces the lack of co-operation of many member states and of the Council of the European Union with the investigation; Regrets that European countries have been relinquishing control over their airspace and airports by turning a blind eye or admitting flights operated by the CIA which, on some occasions, were being used for illegal transportation of detainees; Calls for the closure of [the US military detention mission in] Guantanamo and for European countries immediately to seek the return of their citizens and residents who are being held illegally by the US authorities; Considers that all European countries should initiate independent investigations into all stopovers by civilian aircraft [hired by] the CIA; Urges that a ban or system of inspections be introduced for all CIA-operated aircraft known to have been involved in extraordinary rendition” | European Parliament | 2006 |
Black site | “They always followed the same procedure. We were always told to keep away. The planes would stay at the end of the runway, often with their engines running. A couple of military vans from the nearby intelligence base would go up to them, stay a while and then drive off, out of the airport. "I saw several of these flights but never saw inside the vans because they had tinted windows and they never stopped at the terminal building” | Mariola Przewlocka | 2006 |
Craig Murray | “Can I just say how pleasant it is to be vindicated ten years after being sacked by Jack Straw for opposing the torture and extraordinary rendition programme – which Blair and Straw claimed I was inventing.” | Craig Murray | December 2014 |
Related Documents
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:Child Soldier Coerced Into Plea-Bargain | article | 7 October 2010 | Keith Jones | |
Document:My CIA Rendition | statement | 17 March 2011 | Abu Omar | |
Document:Secret detentions and illegal transfers of detainees involving Council of Europe member states: second report | webpage | 11 June 2007 | Dick Marty | |
Document:The Rendition of Abu Omar | article | August 2007 | John Foot | |
Document:Torture Inquiry must reveal the Truth | article | 7 July 2010 | Peter Oborne | |
File:CIA Shannon Report 9 2 09.pdf | report | 9 February 2008 | Edward Horgan | |
File:EU20060124Jdoc032006E.pdf | report | 24 January 2006 | Dick Marty | |
File:EUEdoc10957.pdf | report | 12 June 2006 | ||
File:EUResolutionMarty.pdf | legal document | 8 September 2011 | Dick Marty |
Convicted of Extraordinary rendition
Person | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
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Hüseyin Baybaşin | 25 December 1956 | Drug trafficker Deep state actor | A druglord with close and acknowledged ties to Turkish government leaders, who also worked as an informer for UK Customs & Excise. Now in prison | ||
Manuel Contreras | 4 May 1929 | 7 August 2015 | Chile | Spook | Chilean spymaster. |
References
- ↑ "Politycy nie pozwolili śledczym tropić lotów CIA – Rzeczpospolita". Rzeczpospolita (in (in Polish)). 17 April 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2010.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
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- ↑ "British Tory MP Blasts Extraordinary Rendition, Says Britain Broke International Law and "Complicit in Torture" if Flights Passed Through UK". Democracy Now. 5 December 2005. Retrieved 18 December 2005.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").