In a world first a court in Italy convicted 23 US CIA rendition agents. They were accused of kidnapping Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr from a street in Milan. The court convicted them of flying...
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After years of public denial, Britain has now acknowledged what many have long suspected. The UK, in clear violation of international law, participated in acts of rendition on at least four separate occasions. According to the Associated Press, on Thursday, Defense Secretary...
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George W. Bush is considering issuing blanket pardons for people in his administration involved in torture and rendition. While these may be extended to include low-level operatives who were just following orders,...
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Mainstream talk radio host Gene Burns calls for Cheney to be tried in the Hague for war crimes rendition and torture, after seeing the PBS documentary Torturing Democracy, which won't be aired before January 20, 2009. In this oped for Harper's, Scott Horton notes the likely...
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Article by Erik Larson, work in progress; suggestions and links welcomeThis article is an overview of some of the ways in which 9/11 has been used; manipulating public fears and understanding, increasing military...
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It was almost 40 years ago that Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the Moon (or so history has it). Yet, that epic landing has not been replicated to this date, and won’t be coming around until 2019. As NASA plans...
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A whopping 2052 guitar players sang and performed “This Land is Your Land” potentially making their way in to the Guiness Book of World Records. It usually takes a about a month for Guiness to make it...
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"The traditional ballad Danny Boy is not known for being controversial, but this St Patrick's day a New York bar has decided to ban it while a Michigan cafe will sing it 1000 times.
It is depressing, it is not usually sung in Ireland for St Patrick's Day, and its lyrics were...
"Eurovision Song Contest feathers may be ruffled by Ireland's decision to be represented in May's cross-continental competition by a puppet bird.
Dustin The Turkey was plucked from a raft of six finalists,...
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WASHINGTON - CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged Thursday that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory, despite repeated U.S. assurances that...
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"The Irish Human Rights Commission has called for flights to be inspected where there is a chance that terrorist suspects are being transported to secret detention.
The practice known as extraordinary rendition has been a contentious issue for some time.
It has been alleged...
The CIA's destruction of videotaped al Qaeda interrogations put a spotlight on Majid Khan, a Gitmo detainee who is suing the U.S. government over a claim he has been tortured while in U.S. custody.
As part of...
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Of course there's no useful intelligence to be gleaned. And could it maybe, just maybe, have something to do with them not wanting the public to see its horrible torture techniques?"The CIA destroyed video...
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"The CIA destroyed video evidence of the coercive interrogation of al-Qaida operatives held under its secret rendition programme in order to shield agents from prosecution, it was revealed yesterday.
The decision to destroy two videotapes documenting the use of waterboarding...
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For those who have been following the case of Maher Arar, it has now been revealed that Canadian intelligence officials knew that Arar was likely to be tortured if he was deported to Jordan. ""I think the U.S. would like to get Arar to Jordan where they can have their...