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Religions > Atheism |
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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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16 Nov 2005 04:51:22 AM |
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Is _this_ Christian America? |
Spanish police expose more CIA links to secret flights of detainees
· 42 operatives traced going through Palma airport
· Names unearthed match Italian and German inquiries
Giles Tremlett in Madrid
Tuesday November 15, 2005
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1642829,00.html
Spanish police have traced up to 42 suspected CIA operatives believed to
have taken part in secret flights carrying detained or kidnapped Islamist
terror suspects to interrogation centres and jails in Afghanistan, Egypt
and elsewhere.
A Spanish police report seen by the New York Times provides the names of
the mainly American crew and passengers of a dozen suspect flights that
landed in Palma de Mallorca in 2003 and 2004. The flights were allegedly
part of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" programme, in which, say human
rights groups, suspected extreme Islamists are taken to be interrogated in
countries where US human rights rules on torture do not apply.
The police report was drawn up at the request of a local magistrate after
some citizens asked for an investigation into the mysterious flights
landing at Palma airport. The magistrate has now asked Spain's powerful
national court whether it wants to take over the inquiry.
Germany and Italy are already investigating similar flights, with Rome
having formally requested the extradition of a dozen alleged CIA operatives
allegedly involved in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003. The
aircraft that went through Palma reportedly included a Boeing 737 and two
Gulfstream jets. The report names Tennessee-based Stevens Express Leasing
as the aircraft operator. It said one crew had followed a route that
matched one described by an alleged detainee, Binyam Muhammed. At least 18
people in the police report left addresses in Virginia, near to CIA
headquarters.
"We have to demand an explanation from the US state department and ban the
entry of these flights to Spain," Miguel Roselló of the United Left party
told journalists yesterday.
Prosecutors in Munich have reportedly asked Spanish police for a copy of
their report. They are looking into the kidnapping of a German citizen,
Khaled al-Masri, who was snatched in Macedonia in January 2004 and taken to
a jail believed to be in Afghanistan. Al-Masri says he was shackled,
beaten, injected with drugs and questioned persistently about his alleged
links with al-Qaida. He was returned to Albania six months later,
apparently after his kidnappers realised they had the wrong man.
One flight from Palma reportedly travelled on to Skopje, the Macedonian
capital, on the date of the kidnapping. It then flew to Baghdad and
Afghanistan.
Spain's Civil Guard police were able to trace the crews through the names
and addresses left behind at two luxury hotels in Palma. They spent their
spare time playing golf, the Diario de Mallorca reported.
Some names reportedly match those of suspected CIA operatives being
investigated by Italian police for the kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Abu
Omar, who was snatched in Milan in February 2003. In both the Italian and
Spanish cases it seems the flight crews made little effort to cover their
tracks, although it is by not certain that the names they provided were
real.
Italian police tracked them through the mobile phones used when Omar was
bundled into a van. Some calls were made to Virginia. They suspect the
cleric was taken to a US air base at Aviano before being taken on to Egypt.
The aircraft which landed at Palma may also have been used in transporting
prisoners to secret detention centres in eastern Europe. The Boeing 737
that landed several times at Palma reportedly travelled on a separate
flight from Afghanistan to Poland in 2003. This is when the US was
allegedly moving groups of high-profile prisoners out of Afghanistan.
Poland has denied running secret detention centres for the US.
Deputies from Spain's United Left party called on the defence minister,
José Bono, to explain why the flights were allowed into Spain. "It is still
not proven that Spanish airports have been used by the CIA for illegal
kidnappings," the government said in a recent parliamentary reply.
The Guardian has established that some 210 flights involved in the
"extraordinary rendition" operation have also passed through British
airports.
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Yes, George W. Bush is a mass murdering Christian butcher. GET OVER IT!!!
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Is _this_ Christian America? |
18 Nov 2005 10:34:15 PM |
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On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:51:22 GMT, (Fredric L.
Rice) wrote:
Spanish police expose more CIA links to secret flights of detainees
Why, yes, it is that vaunted Christian Morality®.
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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