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  • RIGHTS: U.S. Flights Land Heavy on German Politics
    8 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Julio Godoy
    BERLIN, Dec 7 (IPS) - The U.S. military flights illegally transporting Muslim prisoners through Europe to secret detention camps are presenting a particular challenge for the German government.
    New reports indicate that the former coalition government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD, after its German name) and the Green party was informed of the illegal U.S. flights using German territory.
    Official documents both in Berlin and in Washington also show that the German (…)

  • The CIA’s Rendition Flights to Secret Prisons. The Torture-Go-Round
    8 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By LILA RAJIVA
    Dana Priest’s recent Washington Post article, "Anatomy of a CIA ’rendition’ gone wrong"(1) only confirms what those who have watched the torture scandal closely already know. Abu Ghraib was no anomaly but the most visible tip of a widespread but clandestine policy. Priest reveals details about a case in which the CIA used German, Macedonian, Albanian and Afghan authorities and European air space and terminals to "render" a German citizen snatched up abroad for interrogation (…)

  • EU hypocrisy on CIA secret prisons
    8 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By M. A. Saki
    Allegations of secret CIA flights in Europe and the establishment of secret prisons in some European countries have seriously dogged the European Union and have put its claims of being a defender of human rights under question.
    So far, the U.S. has neither dismissed nor confirmed the reports. In Washington on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to answer the question of whether the United States has established CIA-operated secret prisons, but added (…)

  • There is a Name for this Government-Corporation we call "The US Administration"
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Sibel Edmonds v. Department of Justice saga continues as the year 2005 draws to a close. The only breaking news to come from the ongoing drama is the implication, published in Vanity Fair, that Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of US Representatives, was the recipient of campaign contributions and assorted bribes from the Turkish-American community. That another US politician is on the take comes as no surprise. But more on that later. Sibel’s story may have quietly died from the (…)

  • Brass in Pocket, Blood on the Tracks
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Chris Floyd
    The only defense for the indefensible is to be offensive, it seems. The Bush Faction has obviously decided to stop refuting allegations about torture and just openly embrace the heinous practice instead. You’ve got Bush vowing to veto torture restrictions, you’ve got Cheney twisting arms on Capitol Hill to preserve the Faction’s inalienable right to beat people to death — and now you’ve got Condi Rice traipsing off to Europe to tell America’s allies to stop all their whining (…)

  • If it’s not torture, then it’s OK to use it on Cheney
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Kirk Caraway Nevada Appeal Internet Editor, kcaraway@nevadaappeal.com
    "We do not torture."
    That’s what President George W. Bush said, and we can believe him, right? After all, that whole water boarding thing is just a walk in the park. Here is how CIA sources described this technique to ABC News:
    "The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner’s face and water is poured over him.
    Unavoidably, the (…)

  • Rice signs US-Romania bases deal
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed a deal allowing the US to use military bases in Romania.
    It is the first such deal to be signed with a former communist country in eastern Europe.
    Ms Rice arrived in Romania from Germany, on the second leg of a European tour overshadowed by a controversy about CIA operations.
    She stressed that the US does not carry out or condone torture, but did not comment on alleged secret CIA prisons.
    She has defended the CIA practice of (…)

  • Ex-US diplomat blames Israel for Pakistani dictator’s death
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Declan Walsh
    A retired US ambassador has reignited the debate about one of south Asia’s greatest whodunits, the death in 1988 of Pakistan’s president General Zia ul-Haq, by saying that Israel was responsible.
    John Gunther Dean, then US ambassador to India, said he suspected Israel’s secret service Mossad of downing Gen Zia’s aircraft in an effort to stop Pakistan developing the nuclear bomb. But when he reported these suspicions to Washington, he was accused of being mentally (…)

  • AXIOMS OF THE WORLD
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda
    One frequent criticism of my articles for PRAVDA evolves from my propensity to reference my past articles in more recent ones. Some attribute this proclivity to vanity, laziness or some other ulterior motive.
    The truth, however, is not as complicated or self-serving. I simply want to remind readers that there were some, like myself, who recognized the corruption, venality, hypocrisy and mendacity of George W. Bush and his minions long before (…)

  • Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake German Citizen Released After Months in ’Rendition’
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dana Priest
    In May 2004, the White House dispatched the U.S. ambassador in Germany to pay an unusual visit to that country’s interior minister. Ambassador Daniel R. Coats carried instructions from the State Department transmitted via the CIA’s Berlin station because they were too sensitive and highly classified for regular diplomatic channels, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation.
    Coats informed the German minister that the CIA had wrongfully imprisoned one (…)