CIA Flights Likened to the Work of Gangsters

[G_j]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0125-01.htm

Published on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 by the Independent / UK

CIA Flights Likened to the Work of Gangsters
by Stephen Castle

The United States was accused of "gangster tactics" yesterday, and European governments were accused of turning a blind eye to the "outsourcing of torture", as a human rights watchdog concluded that the CIA conducted illegal anti-terror activities in Europe.

Dick Marty, a Swiss parliamentarian conducting a formal inquiry, said evidence pointed to a system of "relocation" of torture of terror suspects, and that reliable indications suggested secret interrogation centres may have existed in Europe.

The document highlighted cases under legal investigation in Europe involving an Egyptian cleric, Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, who disappeared from Milan in 2003, and a Lebanese-born German, Khaled el-Masri, who was abducted in Macedonia last year and flown to Afghanistan where he was held for four months.

Mr Marty said he was "scandalised that a few kilometres from where I live people can be lifted by foreign governments. When someone goes on holiday in Macedonia they are lifted by foreign agents."

He added: "If a government has to resort to gangster tactics - I say 'no'."


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[saigon68]

1. Apparently they wear "BLACK SKI MASKS" when they land

To hide their identities

And they truss up the "detainee" in an extra large depends diaper to dispense with the "Potty Breaks"

[Vidar]

2. An insult to gangsters