Yeh, there's a great article about it in Newsweek. It would be funny except
that it's so sad.

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They let someone else do it for them!!


CIA 'jets suspects overseas'
From correspondents in Washington
March 07, 2005
From: Agence France-Presse


THE CIA uses a secret jet to ferry terror suspects for interrogation
to countries known to use torture, according to a US report aired
today.
CBS television's 60 Minutes program videotaped the Boeing 737 on a
runway at Glasgow Airport in Scotland, saying it was able to trace it
through a series of companies and executives that apparently exist
only on paper.

It said the plane had made at least 600 flights to 40 countries, all
after the September 11 attacks, including 30 trips to Jordan, 19 to
Afghanistan, 17 to Morocco and 16 to Iraq.

The plane also went to Egypt, Libya and Guantanamo Bay, according to
the report.
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The aircraft is part of the Central Intelligence Agency's so-called
"rendition" program, in which suspects are sent to foreign governments
for interrogation.

The agency has not formally acknowledged the program's existence.

A German national, which CBS identified as Khalid El-Masri, told a
reporter he was on vacation in Macedonia when he was arrested by
police and held in Macedonia for three weeks and then brought to the
airport, beaten by masked men, drugged and put aboard the 737.

The plane left Skopje, Macedonia, and went to Baghdad and then Kabul,
with Mr El-Masri saying he awoke in a jail cell where his captors
said, "You're in a country without laws and no one knows where you
are," CBS News quoted the former detainee as saying.

"It was very clear to me that he meant I could stay in my cell for 20
years or be buried somewhere," Mr El-Masri said.

He added his fellow prisoners in the American-run jail were Saudi
Arabians, Tanzanians, a Yemeni and a Pakistani who had lived in the
US.

Mr El-Masri said he had been in solitary confinement for five months
and then released without an explanation.

According to the report, the jet also made 10 trips to Uzbekistan,
where former British ambassador Craig Murray said the jet's nominal
owner, Premier Executive Transport Services, kept a small staff at the
airport in Tashkent.

Murray said Uzbek interrogators use unusually cruel methods, including
"techniques of drowning and suffocation, rape ... and also the
insertion of limbs in boiling liquid."

Murray said he had complained to his superiors that information was
being obtained by torture and sent his deputy to the CIA station chief
to inquire about the practice.

"The CIA definitely knows," he told the program, adding his deputy had
confirmed that evidence "probably was obtained under torture but the
CIA didn't see that as a problem".

He was ordered to return to London four months ago and has since left
government service, CBS News said.


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