Remember Rendition?

[atommom]

EW YORK, Feb 23 (IPS) - A few months ago -- particularly after The Washington Post broke the story of secret U.S. "black sites" in Eastern Europe -- it would have been difficult to pick up a newspaper or watch television without hearing the words "extreme rendition".

Then, almost as suddenly as the issue appeared, it vanished. The world's press stopped focusing on the U.S. practice of sending detainees to countries where they would likely be tortured or abused.

Last week, the rendition issue was back, but not in a way likely to please its opponents.

Rendition returned when a U.S. federal court dismissed a lawsuit against the Bush administration brought by Ottawa engineer Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian citizen who was detained by U.S. authorities as a suspected terrorist during a stopover in New York as he returned from a vacation in September 2002.

He was held virtually incommunicado by U.S. officials, and then sent to Syria, where he said he was tortured and held in a tiny cell he likened to a "grave" for nearly a year. He was never charged before Syria returned him to Canada.

Read on. It ain't good. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=32279

ETA that the court's decision on this case may well encourage the Bushies to continue the renditions, with no concerns about the legality.

[TomInTib]

1. That is such a horrific story. nt

[muntrv]

2. NY Times Bob Herbert

has been all over this one. It's sick!!

[atommom]

3. .

:kick:

[realFedUp]

4. but, but, but....we're spreading democracy right?

:eyes:

[ThomCat]

5. There is very little justice. It's a joke.

If he was a wealthy business man who made political donations you know this would have been different.