The CIA Must Tell the Truth About My Rendition At 12 Years Old. Senate report set to reveal Djibouti as CIA ‘black site’ In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, al-Asad, now 54 years old, said he was detained for about two weeks in Djibouti and then rendered to Afghanistan, where he says he was tortured at various points over the course of more than a year at several CIA black site prisons. Before he was released in 2005 and sent back to Yemen, he said, he received a visitor from Washington. “What I remember through the interpreter was that he said, ‘I am the head of the prison, and you will be the first one at the top of the list of the people we are going to release because we have nothing on you,’” al-Asad told Al Jazeera.
“The interpreter said that he was the director of all the prisons.” Al-Asad was never charged with terrorism or related crimes, but he pleaded guilty in Yemen to making false statements and using forged documents to obtain his Tanzanian travel papers. Al-Asad, who still lives in Yemen, has been trying since his release to hold Djibouti officials accountable for his detention.
PDF 478 [Raphael Declaration (al-Asad v. Djibouti) (25 Oct 2013)].pdf. Maps_ITEM-41-Maps-by-Sam-Raphael-As-FIled-131102.pdf. "Extraordinary rendition" and other terms of our times. English is such a wonderfully malleable language, especially the American branch of it. New words, phrases, even recombined bits and pieces of words pour out of our mouths (or our computers) and -- poof -- before you know it, they're in our lives and the dictionaries. Our new realities -- whether the Internet (after all, I'm a "blogger" less than three years after I discovered the Internet existed) or George Bush's global crusade, his "war on terrorism" (itself a new combination of words) -- produce new vocabularies all the time, or drive more specialized vocabularies into wider usage. "Blowback," to take but one example, was an old CIA term for "the unintended consequences of covert operations [to overthrow foreign governments], kept secret from the American public.
" All this is my way of saying that, in the course of my daily readings, I'm often taken aback by terms -- new to me at least -- which seem to be bleeding out of various dark nooks and crannies of this administration. Extraordinary rendition. Extraordinary rendition or irregular rendition is the apprehension and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another.[1] During the United States war on terror under the administration of President George W.
Bush, the term became associated with US practices of abducting and transferring terrorism suspects to countries known to employ torture for the purpose of interrogation. The process has continued under the Barack Obama administration, though new rules have been put in place that claim to prevent torture of abducted individuals; in August 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder accepted the results of the Special Task Force on Interrogations and Transfer Policies that the U.S. will be limited to seek "assurances from the receiving country" as such.[2] Background[edit] “the United States has not transported anyone, and will not transport anyone, to a country when we believe he will be tortured. Definitions[edit] Historical instances[edit] 20th century[edit] The New Yorker: Fact - Outsourcing Torture. ANNALS OF JUSTICE about the “extraordinary rendition” program by which the United States sends suspected terrorists to countries such as Egypt to be interrogated and tortured… Writer tells about Maher Arrar, a Syrian-born Canadian citizen who was arrested at Kennedy airport in 2002 and flown on an executive jet to Amman, Jordan, then driven to Syria where he was beaten by his interrogators… According to Scott Horton, an expert on international law, a hundred and fifty people have been rendered.
Tells about the shift in Administration policy away from not returning people to countries where they are likely to be tortured. Labelled the New Paradigm by then White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, the new policy placed a premium on the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists. Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition. Hide Download Files Download the 216-page report. 1.08 MB pdf Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency embarked on a highly classified program of secret detention and extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects.
The program was designed to place detainee interrogations beyond the reach of law. Suspected terrorists were seized and secretly flown across national borders to be interrogated by foreign governments that used torture, or by the CIA itself in clandestine “black sites” using torture techniques. Globalizing Torture is the most comprehensive account yet assembled of the human rights abuses associated with CIA secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations. More than 10 years after the 2001 attacks, Globalizing Torture makes it unequivocally clear that the time has come for the United States and its partners to definitively repudiate these illegal practices and secure accountability for the associated human rights abuses. 2013 - The Rendition Project. [3] [4] 22 May 2013 The Rendition Project launches Rendition Flight Database, Interactive Map, and hundreds of pages of detailed analysis The Rendition Project has begun an ambitious initiative to 'map' the global rendition system, providing a detailed analysis of its component parts and a clearer understanding of how they fit together.
The focus has been on tracking the movement of CIA flights around the world, and individual detainees as they have been transferred between secret prisons for continued detention and torture. Users can now search our Rendition Flights Database [5] , access comprehensive anlayses of the prisons and aircraft which were used by the CIA and allied security forces, and track the movements of those detainees subjected to rendition, torture and secret detention in the 'war on terror'. [6] Guardian publishes The Rendition Project's Interactive Map and accompanying stories US rendition: every suspected flight mapped [7] 13 May 2013 9 May 2013 [15] 16 April 2013.