:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 6.08.2006 ::
:: RE Rendition ::
14 Nations Aided CIA in Abductions, Report Says
Los Angeles Times
PARIS — Fourteen European countries appear to have helped the CIA operate a global "spider's web" of abductions, clandestine flights and secret detention facilities targeting suspected Islamic extremists, the head of a European inquiry alleged Wednesday.
Presenting the findings of an eight-month inquiry, Swiss Sen. Dick Marty accused European governments of collaborating with or accepting "systematic human rights violations" on their soil as teams of U.S. spies in black ski masks allegedly spirited suspects onto planes that flew them to grueling interrogations in countries such as Morocco, Syria and Egypt.
Marty singled out Romania and Poland, saying European government flight data and circumstantial evidence support accusations that they allowed secret CIA detention facilities to operate in their countries.
Read more here.
ALSO
We need to act against rendition
Britain should not be silent about the CIA's abduction of terror suspects.r
An opinion piece from the Guardian Unlimited, UK
As another report (pdf) is published making accusations of rendition and secret prisons in Europe, Tony Blair is complaining that it adds nothing new. Calls for the allegations to be backed up by solid evidence are growing stronger. But it's not more evidence that we need, it's more open discussion.
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