{"id":25858,"date":"2013-02-05T14:36:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T13:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=25858"},"modified":"2013-02-05T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T13:38:03","slug":"outsourcing-torture-50-countries-complicit-in-extraordinary-rendition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/outsourcing-torture-50-countries-complicit-in-extraordinary-rendition\/","title":{"rendered":"Outsourcing Torture: 50 Countries Complicit In Extraordinary Rendition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mick Meaney
\nrinf.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For the first time, a report from the Open Society Foundation<\/a> (PDF) reveals the scale of global CIA torture. At least 50 countries took part in\u00a0\u201cextraordinary rendition\u201d following the 9\/11 attacks, which involved taking detainees to and from U.S. custody without any legal process.<\/p>\n

So far, the foundation has discovered the following countries, but admits there might be several that have not been uncovered yet.<\/p>\n

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritania, Morocco, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The new report found that 136 people experienced extraordinary rendition, across 54 countries.<\/p>\n

The use\u00a0of torture has long been debated, with little evidence to support its\u00a0effectiveness.<\/p>\n

The report acknowledges the legal and moral implications of the practice:<\/p>\n

Torture is not only illegal and immoral, but also ineffective for producing reliable\u00a0intelligence. Indeed, numerous professional U.S. interrogators have confirmed \u00a0that torture does not produce reliable intelligence, and that rapport-building\u00a0techniques are far more effective at eliciting such intelligence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It also highlights the dangerous ramifications of torture:<\/p>\n

A telling example\u00a0of the disastrous consequences of extraordinary rendition operations can be\u00a0seen in the case of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, documented in this report. After being\u00a0extraordinarily rendered by the United States to Egypt in 2002, al-Libi, under\u00a0threat of torture at the hands of Egyptian officials, fabricated information relating\u00a0to Iraq\u2019s provision of chemical and biological weapons training to Al Qaeda. In\u00a02003, then Secretary of State Colin Powell relied on this fabricated information in\u00a0his speech to the United Nations that made the case for war against Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As for\u00a0Britain’s\u00a0role in extraordinary rendition,\u00a0\u00a0the foundation states:<\/p>\n

The U.K. government assisted in the extraordinary rendition of individuals, gave\u00a0the CIA intelligence that led to the extraordinary rendition of individuals, interrogated individuals who were later secretly detained and extraordinarily rendered, submitted questions for interrogation of individuals who were secretly detained and\u00a0extraordinarily rendered, and permitted use of its airspace and airports for flights\u00a0associated with extraordinary rendition operations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The report also mentions the case of\u00a0Sami al-Saadi, which \u00a0RINF reported on in December 2012. The British government had bought the silence<\/a> of a torture victim, in an attempt to\u00a0conceal its crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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