CIA rendition: widely accepted

[cronus]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/fe ... rt-support

CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries 'offered covert support'

The full extent of the CIA's extraordinary rendition programme has been laid bare with the publication of a report showing there is evidence that more than a quarter of the world's governments covertly offered support.

A 213-page report compiled by the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), a New York-based human rights organisation, says that at least 54 countries co-operated with the global kidnap, detention and torture operation that was mounted after 9/11, many of them in Europe.

So widespread and extensive was the participation of governments across the world that it is now clear the CIA could not have operated its programme without their support, according to the OSJI.

"There is no doubt that high-ranking Bush administration officials bear responsibility for authorising human rights violations associated with secret detention and extraordinary rendition, and the impunity that they have enjoyed to date remains a matter of significant concern," the report says.

"But responsibility for these violations does not end with the United States. Secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations, designed to be conducted outside the United States under cover of secrecy, could not have been implemented without the active participation of foreign governments. These governments too must be held accountable."

The states identified by the OSJI include those such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt and Jordan where the existence of secret prisons and the use of torture has been well documented for many years. But the OSJI's rendition list also includes states such as Ireland, Iceland and Cyprus, which are accused of granting covert support for the programme by permitting the use of airspace and airports by aircraft involved in rendition flights.

Canada not only permitted the use of its airspace but provided information that led to one of its own nationals being taken to Syria where he was held for a year and tortured, the report says.

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[JimC]

The Tasmanian connection is yet to be exposed...

Even I, opposed as I am to muslim fanatics, are disgusted by the rumours of Tasmanian devils being placed in trousers...

[pErvinalia]

The shocking level of acceptance of George Bush and his practices is so typical. If this was Obama you'd all be baying for blood. This forum is so biased.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Overt, covert, pervert.

[Coito ergo sum]

The shocking level of acceptance of George Bush and his practices is so typical. If this was Obama you'd all be baying for blood. This forum is so biased.

This is Obama, too, as the practice of extraordinary rendition has not stopped, and the Obama administration follows the same policy. The only blood being bayed for though is whose?

They seem to equate things in the article that aren't the same thing. Rendition is one thing, kidnaping and torture are other things.

[Jason]

Introvert, extrovert, up her skirt.

[Azathoth]

They broke the 11th commandment. Thou shalt not get caught. It isn't like it is anything new