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Syria Releases Mastermind of 7/7 Bombing

Mark Russell — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:06:30 CST

The alleged mastermind behind the 2005 7/7 bombings in London has been released from a Syrian prison, reportedly as a warning to the United States and West by the regime of Bashar al-Assad, reports the Telegraph . Abu Musab al-Suri, also known as Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, is also suspected of being...

Defense Bill Could Allow Rendition of Americans

Kevin Spak — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:20:00 CST

President Obama has signaled that he will sign a defense bill this week that includes language giving him broad powers to indefinitely detain terror suspects—including, many legal analysts believe, American citizens. Now, Mother Jones has spotted another charming provision in the bill that would allow the rendition of terror...

British PM Seeks Libya Rendition Probe

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:50:00 CDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron says he wants an investigation into reports that MI6 helped deliver a terror suspect and his family to Libya , where they were likely tortured, the BBC reports. An ongoing inquiry into British involvement in torture has agreed to look into it. British lawmaker Jack Straw,...

UK, CIA Linked to Rendition Plot With Gadhafi Regime

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:03:48 CDT

Today's bloodthirsty dictator was apparently yesterday's Western helpmate. Documents discovered in an abandoned Libyan government office reveal that the Brits, CIA and Libya were involved in a plan to deliver a terror suspect—with his wife and children—to a Tripoli prison where they likely faced torture, reports the Guardian...

Uncovered Libya Files Show Close Ties With CIA

John Johnson — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 05:43:43 CDT

The CIA developed close working relations with Libya over the last decade and sent at least eight terror suspects there for interrogation—as part of the controversial practice known as rendition, according to documents found by Human Rights Watch in Libya. The group made the files available to news organizations,...

Firms Raked in Big Bucks for CIA Rendition Flights

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:58:54 CDT

What was bad for suspected terrorists turned out to fatten the wallets of US firms. Certain flight firms raked in cash as a result of the CIA's rendition program, in which suspects were carted off to foreign jails where they could be tortured and held without charges. The US contracted...

Court Chucks CIA Rendition Case to Protect 'State Secrets'

Rob Quinn — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:42:42 CDT

A federal appeals court has dismissed a case brought on behalf of five people who are charging that they were tortured in secret CIA prisons abroad. The sharply divided court ruled that the case against Jeppesen Dataplan, a Boeing subsidiary which allegedly assisted the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program, should not...

CIA's Key Shadow Ally: Jordan

Jane Yager — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:58:00 CST

The death of a Jordanian intelligence operative alongside seven CIA agents in last week's bombing of a CIA facility in Afghanistan offered an unusually visible sign of Jordan's emerging role as a low-profile but crucial US counterterrorism ally. Since 9/11, the Middle Eastern nation's role in the fight against Islamic...

First US Citizen Sues Feds for Rendition

Jane Yager — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:06:33 CST

A New Jersey man yesterday became the first US citizen to sue the federal government for "rendition," the extrajudicial transfer of terrorism suspects between countries. Arrested in Kenya in 2007, Amir Meshal was secretly flown to Somalia, then to Ethiopia, where he claims US agents repeatedly threatened him with "torture,...