On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:59:15 -0500, JohnH wrote:


I did. I found many articles. I looked at several. All the ones I read
referred to the same individual, Maher Arar, who says he was tortured in
Syria.

Are there other cases which ring with some truth, or are there just
umpteen stories about this one guy?

Geez John, what no "Clinton did it, Clinton did it"? If you truly had
done a search on "extraordinary rendition", you would have seen that the
program was developed with the approval of the Clinton administration.
And of course, I'm sure that will "ring with some truth" to you. Bush
simply expanded the program, and didn't limit it to foreign soil.

As the program was covert, there is no way for us to know how many times
it has been used, but I have read estimates that it has been used over 100
times since 9/11. Egypt, Syria, and Jordan seem to be the leading
contenders for the torturer du jour.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact6