GUARDIAN: Rendition 'massively damaging' to counter-terrorism effort

[Buck Turgidson]

James Sturcke and agencies
Wednesday June 7, 2006

The British government's apparent support of CIA rendition flights is "massively damaging" in the battle against international terrorism, a former Foreign Office minister said today.
Tony Lloyd demanded that the Bush administration give "proper and definitive" answers to allegations that it has been kidnapping terrorist suspects and transferring them to countries where they could be tortured.

He was speaking as the Council of Europe human rights' committee named Britain among 14 countries that had colluded with the CIA practice, and called on the government to ask Washington "the right questions" about what the US flights that passed through Britain were being used.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1792271,00.html

[Synnical]

1. WaPo's version: Report Suggests Poland, Romania Allowed CIA Prisons

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/07/AR2006060700505.html

Several European Nations Implicated by Watchdog for Collusion With U.S. Terror Detention Effort

By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 7, 2006; 8:45 AM

BERLIN, June 7 -- A European investigator concluded Wednesday that there are "serious indications" that the CIA operated secret prisons for suspected al-Qaeda leaders in Poland and Romania as part of a clandestine "spider's web" to catch, transfer and hold terrorism suspects around the world.

In addition, Dick Marty, a Swiss investigator working on behalf of the Council of Europe, the continent's official human-rights organization, said at least seven European nations colluded with the CIA to abduct and secretly detain terrorism suspects, including several who were ultimately cleared of wrongdoing. He said those countries should be held accountable under European human-rights laws.

Sweden, Italy, Britain, Turkey, Germany, Bosnia and Macedonia "could be held responsible for violations of the rights of specific individuals" who were handed over to the CIA or captured by U.S. operatives in those countries, Marty said in a report released Wednesday in Paris.

"It is now clear," he added, "that authorities in several European countries actively participated with the CIA in these unlawful activities. Other countries ignored them knowingly, or did not want to know."

[saigon68]

4. Poland has a long history of tolerating death camps

[librechik]

2. good luck on that "proper and definitive answers" stuff

Bush doesn't testify.

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=28200

"I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind. Again, I wish it wasn't true, but it is true. And the American people need to know they got a president who sees the world the way it is. And I see dangers that exist, and it's important for us to deal with them.

Russert: Will you testify before the commission?

President Bush: This commission? You know, I don't testify? I will be glad to visit with them. I will be glad to share with them knowledge. I will be glad to make recommendations, if they ask for some."


yeah, like "go fuck yourself"

[democrank]

3. This makes me sick.

Why can`t we stop it?