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CIA« Previous EntriesAmnesty accuses Spain of allowing CIA flights to GuantanamoWednesday, October 8th, 2008Madrid - The human rights group Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday accused the Spanish government of not having tried to prevent US flights transporting terrorist suspects to illegal detention centres across Spanish airspace. At least 90 flights linked to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) made stopovers at 15 Spanish airports, mainly on the Canary Islands, between 2002 and 2007, the Spanish section of AI said in a report. About 200 people were ... tagged CIA and GuantanamoEx-CIA Official Pleads Guilty in Corruption CaseWednesday, October 1st, 2008By Derek Kravitz | The story of the CIA officer, his mistress and his wealthy businessman friend appears to have come to an end, with the intelligence agency's former executive director likely facing about two years behind bars. Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, the former No. 3 official in the CIA, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to one count of wire fraud stemming from sweetheart contracting deals he awarded to ... tagged CIA and USA-NewsIntelligence officer claims CIA was complicit in torture in UzbekistanTuesday, September 16th, 2008By Neil Mackay | THE CIA SENT ITS agents into Uzbekistan torture chambers to observe the abuse of alleged Islamic terrorists, acc-ording to a dissident member of the Uzbek security services who is now seeking political asylum in the UK after fleeing Tashkent. Ikrom Yakubov, a former major in the National Security Service (SNB), accused the CIA of involvement in torture sessions in the central Asian republic in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Herald, during which he made a series of startling claims. These include ... tagged CIA, Torture and World-NewsCIA memos reveal doubts over ‘key’ Lockerbie witnessTuesday, September 2nd, 2008By Guy Smith | A Libyan "double agent" who was central to the CIA's investigation into the Lockerbie bombing exaggerated his importance in Tripoli's intelligence apparatus and gave little information of value, yet is still living at the US taxpayers' expense in a witness protection programme, according to previously unseen CIA cables. Five months before the destruction of Pan Am flight 103 in December 1988, 27-year-old Majid Giaka turned up ... tagged CIAA UK Window into CIA AbusesThursday, August 28th, 2008Human Rights Watch | This Wednesday, unless the UK foreign secretary takes rapid action, Britain’s High Court will hold a hearing to assess whether the UK government should be ordered to hand over secret documents to lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee. The detainee in question, Binyam Mohamed, faces possible charges of conspiracy and material support for terrorism before a military commission at Guantanamo. Mohamed, an Ethiopian national and ... tagged CIA and UK-NewsThe CIA is training landscapers, poolmen, and interior designersSaturday, August 16th, 2008By Tim Swanson | The US military recently accused Iran of training “death squads” whose primary goal is carrying out assassinations. The information is being made public to supposedly “pressure” Iranian leadership into halting these operations. So if Iranian assassins are called “death squads” what are similarly trained operatives from the CIA or Army called? Perhaps the euphemisms that Pentagon officials use ... tagged CIASecret Prison on Diego Garcia ConfirmedSaturday, August 2nd, 2008Andy Worthington Six “High-Value” Guantánamo Prisoners Held, Plus “Ghost Prisoner” Mustafa Setmariam Nasar The existence of a secret, CIA-run prison on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean has long been a leaky secret in the “War on Terror,” and yesterday’s revelations in TIME -- based on disclosures by a “senior American official” (now retired), who was “a frequent participant in White House ... tagged CIAAl-Qaeda expert re-killed by CIAWednesday, July 30th, 2008legitgov.org | It's 'Groundhog Day' at the CIA! Abu Khabab al-Masri 'died' in January 2006 and again on Monday. Once again, the 'mainstream' media announces the re-killing of another 'key al-Qaeda operative' by a 'CIA-operated unpiloted ... tagged CIA and TerrorismLawyer asks Taoiseach for information on CIA flightsMonday, July 28th, 2008THE LAWYER representing a British resident detained in Guantánamo Bay has written to Taoiseach Brian Cowen seeking information on CIA flights involved in his client's "extraordinary rendition" which landed in Shannon in 2002 and 2004. Clive Stafford Smith wrote to Mr Cowen on Friday on behalf of Binyam Mohamed, whom he is representing in the US military commissions process and US habeas corpus litigation. Mr Mohamed, a janitor from Kensington in London, ... tagged CIA and World-NewsCourt Documents Shed Light on CIA Illegal OperationsSaturday, July 12th, 2008Sibel Edmonds State Secrets Gallery Connects Pipeline Politics, Madrassas & the Turkish Proxies By Lukery In a recent immigration court case involving Turkish Islamic Leader, Fetullah Gulen, US prosecutors exposed an illegal, covert, CIA operation involving the intentional Islamization of Central Asia. This operation has been ongoing since the fall of the Soviet Union in an ongoing Cold War to control the vast energy resources of the region - Uzbekistan, ... tagged CIA and USA-NewsMukasey Refuses to Probe CIA InterrogationsSaturday, July 12th, 2008By JASON RYAN | Attorney General Michael Mukasey has notified the House Judiciary Committee that he will not appoint special counsel to investigate the actions of CIA officers and agents who conducted detainee interrogations that included controversial methods such as waterboarding, which simulates drowning. The controversial interrogation practices were authorized by lawyers from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. In a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Rep. John Conyers, ... tagged CIA and TortureCIA Played Larger Role In Advising PentagonThursday, June 19th, 2008 By Joby Warrick | A senior CIA lawyer advised Pentagon officials about the use of harsh interrogation techniques on detainees at Guantanamo Bay in a meeting in late 2002, defending waterboarding and other methods as permissible despite U.S. and international laws banning torture, according to documents released yesterday by congressional investigators....
tagged CIA and USA-NewsRenditions Victim to Sue German GovernmentWednesday, June 11th, 2008 Spiegel | A German-Lebanese victim of the CIA's extraordinary renditions program plans to sue the government in Berlin to force it to issue extradition orders against 13 American intelligence agents involved in his alleged kidnapping.
Khaled el-Masri, the German-Lebanese abducted in Afghanistan as part of the CIA's extraordinary renditions program and detained without reason, is expected to file a lawsuit early ...
tagged CIA, Torture and World-NewsBlackwater’s Private CIAWednesday, June 11th, 2008 By Jeremy Scahill | This past September, the secretive mercenary company Blackwater USA found its name splashed across front pages throughout the world after the company's shooters gunned down seventeen Iraqi civilians in
Baghdad's Nisour Square. But by early 2008, Blackwater had largely receded from the headlines ...
tagged CIA and USA-NewsHunger strike as protest to Guantánamo chargesSaturday, June 7th, 2008 By Andy Worthington | This has been a disturbing week for British resident and Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, who endured two and a half years of torture at the hands of Pakistani agents, the CIA, and the United States’ proxy torturers in Morocco, before being transferred to Guantánamo in September 2004.
Last Friday, it was revealed that he was ...
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