[Scan-DC] Re: [FedCom] CIA Jet

b_thom at juno.com b_thom at juno.com
Mon Dec 27 13:30:01 EST 2004



On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:07:55 -0500 Michael Rumberg
<michael.rumberg at verizon.net> writes:
> yeah, thats a VERY interesting article.  you can be sure there are 
> some very upset spies out there right now.  we arent supposed to 
> 
> you can be assured that the other agencies, (DOJ, Treas, FBI etc) 
> use the same procedures.  


That's old news. The story was there for the asking, although providing
the tail number and the names of the "owners" of the Gulfstream is new.

Here is the story from the World Socialist website. It was posted in
March 2002, almost three years ago.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/mar2002/cia-m20.shtml

>>
The CIA’s international dirty war
US oversees abduction, torture, execution of alleged terrorists
By Barry Grey
20 March 2002

....
The Post asserts that those seized are subject to torture at the hands of
foreign authorities working in tandem with the CIA, and that American
agents are often on hand for the interrogations. The article states: “The
suspects have been taken to countries, including Egypt and Jordan, whose
intelligence services have close ties to the CIA and where they can be
subjected to interrogation tactics—including torture and threats to
families—that are illegal in the United States, the sources said. In some
cases, US intelligence agents remain closely involved in the
interrogation, the sources said.”

The article gives a number of examples, including the following
post-September 11 abductions:

* Muhammad Saad Iqbal Madni, 24, a Pakistani, was seized in early January
of this year by Indonesian intelligence agents while visiting a friend in
Jakarta. Two days later, without a court hearing or a lawyer, Iqbal was
put on an unmarked US-registered Gulfstream jet parked at a military
airport in Jakarta and flown to Egypt. Iqbal remains in custody in Egypt,
where he has been questioned by US agents. There is no word on his legal
status.
....
<<

But wait: it's quoting a _Washington Post_ article from March 11, 2002.

>>
The Washington Post reported the operations of the US-led campaign in a
March 11 article headlined “US Behind Secret Transfer of Terror
Suspects.” 
<<

Let's Google, shall we?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/03.25C.Secret.Transfer.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5564-2002Mar10.html

It's all there, very word of it. It is often the case that the online
date of WP articles is usually one day ahead of the day the article
appears in the dead tree edition.

Do you think the story will get picked up this time?


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