mahdokht
11-09-2003, 09:45 AM
They Can Take You Away & Tell No One: The Case of Maher Arar
...Anonymous officials of the CIA said that Arar fit the bill of a covert "extraordinary rendition"-the practice of turning over "low-level, suspected terrorists to foreign intelligence services, some of which are known to torture prisoners." The practice is so secret that no other details are or ever will be available to the public or Congress (as if Congress would do anything useful, anyway). Additional information in the Washington Post article indicated that "renditions" used to take place on U.S. soil, but since the CIA is loathe to actually physically torture "detainees,"since the early 1990's the CIA and the FBI arrange for the person to be sent to countries who will do the torturing for them.
http://www.muslimwakeup.com/mainarchive/000345.php#more
...Anonymous officials of the CIA said that Arar fit the bill of a covert "extraordinary rendition"-the practice of turning over "low-level, suspected terrorists to foreign intelligence services, some of which are known to torture prisoners." The practice is so secret that no other details are or ever will be available to the public or Congress (as if Congress would do anything useful, anyway). Additional information in the Washington Post article indicated that "renditions" used to take place on U.S. soil, but since the CIA is loathe to actually physically torture "detainees,"since the early 1990's the CIA and the FBI arrange for the person to be sent to countries who will do the torturing for them.
http://www.muslimwakeup.com/mainarchive/000345.php#more