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  • Britain’s secret torture centre : The interrogation camp that turned prisoners into living skeletons
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    German spa became a forbidden village where Gestapo-like techniques were used
    by Ian Cobain
    Despite the six years of bitter fighting which lay behind him, James Morgan-Jones, a major in the Royal Artillery, could not have been more specific about the spectacle in front of him. "It was," he reported, "one of the most disgusting sights of my life."
    Curled up on a bed in a hospital in Rotenburg, near Bremen, was a cadaverous shadow of a human being. "The man literally had no flesh on him, (…)

  • Document proves European Union agreed to CIA rendition flights
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Marsden
    Attempts by European governments to deny knowledge their airports were used by the CIA to fly detainees to facilities where they could be tortured has unravelled. A document obtained by the civil rights group Statewatch confirms that the European Union (EU) agreed to such flights as part of a wider programme of joint security operations with the Bush administration in 2003.
    Minutes of confidential talks held in Athens on January 22, 2003, prove that EU officials agreed (…)

  • America kidnapped me
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Khaled El-Masri
    KHALED EL-MASRI, a German citizen born in Lebanon, was a car salesman before he was detained in December 2003.
    THE U.S. POLICY of "extraordinary rendition" has a human face, and it is mine.
    I am still recovering from an experience that was completely beyond the pale, outside the bounds of any legal framework and unacceptable in any civilized society. Because I believe in the American system of justice, I sued George Tenet, the former CIA director, last week. What (…)

  • Report | The Constitution in Crisis
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By House Judiciary Committee Minority Staff
    The Downing Street minutes and deception, manipulation, torture, retribution, and coverups in the Iraq war.
    Full Report: www.truthout.org/3.122005ConRes.pdf
    Executive Summary
    This Minority Report has been produced at the request of Representative John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee. He made this request in the wake of the President’s failure to respond to a letter submitted by 122 Members of (…)

  • The Price of the Death Penalty
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At last count, there were more than 100 prisoners aged 60 and older on America’s death rows.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
    Clarence Ray Allen is old, sick, and disabled. He suffers from just about every physical ailment imaginable. But Allen is a condemned killer, and he could be executed at California’s San Quentin prison on January 17.
    Septuagenarians are not aberrations on America’s death rows. A reporter who interviewed death row prisoner Stanley Tookie Williams shortly before his (…)

  • Democracy: Hacked Votes, Torture, Internal Spying and Corruption.
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Galde
    We need to ask ourselves one essential question. Are we really living in a Democracy that is deserving of that noble title?
    When machines are devised by corporations and used by our government that can be purposefully hacked without a trace to alter the Democratic process, are we living in a true Democracy? The Diebold Corporation doesn’t make mistakes like that by accident. Let us not forget that they are the ones who make the ATM machines that you get your pocket (…)

  • (Lists) CIA Planes, Europe Joint Ventures/Agreements: Shows Europe Complicit
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    CLIP AND SAVE THE LIST OF PLANES, BELOW. It will make following the news (lawsuits, prosecutions, investigations) a lot easier.
    At a meeting in Athens, Greece, on January 22, 2003, the European Union states gave the United States permission to kidnap Muslims off the street (renditions) and use European airports and airspace.
    The minutes of the meeting are at the above link. That’s all the proof you need. Here is the relevant part of the linked file:
    "Both sides [EU, US] agreed on (…)

  • BUSH FOOLS AMERICANS BY APPEARING TO ACCEPT MCCAIN’S BAN ON TORTURE
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D. December 16 , 2005
    In Washington politics, things are seldom what they appear to be - especially when devious Machiavellians are running the White House. And we often end up getting a fairy-tale version of reality because the USA’s government-corporate-media complex prefers to ignore unpleasant-but-true stories while it promotes pleasant-but-false stories.
    For instance, the mainstream media is burying a major Bushite deception right now, so as to (…)

  • Censored document reveals increased transit facilities for the USA to use EU airports to move people
    18 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    EU-USA: Rendition and removing refugees raise the same issue: Censored document reveals increased transit facilities for the USA to use EU airports to move people around the world
    There has been an informal agreement between the EU and the USA that flights to and from the USA can stop-over in transit at EU airports since around 1998 (see EU docs no: 13554/97 and 6541/1/98). The USA requested these "facilities" into order to send people back to Africa, the Middle East and Asia. No figures (…)

  • EU concealed deal with US to allow ’rendition’ flights
    18 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Justin Stares in Brussels and Philip Sherwell in Washington (Filed: 11/12/2005)
    The European Union secretly allowed the United States to use transit facilities on European soil to transport "criminals" in 2003, according to a previously unpublished document. The revelation contradicts repeated EU denials that it knew of "rendition" flights by the CIA.
    The EU agreed to give America access to facilities - presumably airports - in confidential talks in Athens during which the war on (…)