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unionist
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posted 31 January 2007 02:22 PM      Profile for unionist     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Germany has ordered the arrest of 13 suspected CIA agents over the alleged kidnapping of one of its citizens.

Munich prosecutors confirmed that the warrants were linked to the case of Khaled al-Masri, a German national of Lebanese descent.

Mr Masri says he was seized in Macedonia, flown to a secret prison in Afghanistan and mistreated there.

He says he was released in Albania five months later when the Americans realised they had the wrong man.[...]

The US government is not assisting the German authorities with the case.


Read more here.

This action highlights the hypocrisy of the Harper government, which has taken no action whatsoever against either the Canadian or the U.S. culprits involved in sending Canadian citizens to torture.


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remind
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posted 31 January 2007 02:48 PM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So the EU knew!

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If the case proceeds to trial, it would be the first criminal prosecution over America's rendition policy.

The practice has drawn widespread criticism from human rights groups, legal experts and the international community.

But last week a European Parliament committee approved a report saying EU states knew about secret CIA flights over Europe, the abduction of terror suspects by US agents and the existence of clandestine detention camps.



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unionist
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posted 31 January 2007 02:52 PM      Profile for unionist     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Originally posted by remind:
So the EU knew!


Surprised? I'll bet Canada knew about Guantanamo... And we've had Canadians held there...


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remind
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posted 31 January 2007 03:51 PM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Originally posted by unionist:
Surprised? I'll bet Canada knew about Guantanamo... And we've had Canadians held there...

No, now that I think about it. And I am sure our government did know as well. Nor am I surprised that Harper won't do a thing.


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billF
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posted 02 February 2007 12:31 PM      Profile for billF     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I agree, Harper isn’t going to take a stand on the issue. I notice he was noncommittal in doing anything about getting Arar off the US no fly list.

So, Germany has 13 warrants for CIA operatives and Italy has warrants out for 22. That means 35 fewer CIA agents scurrying about Europe kidnapping and torturing people….that’s a good thing!


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M. Spector
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posted 02 December 2007 05:27 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.

The admission will alarm the British business community after the case of the so-called NatWest Three, bankers who were extradited to America on fraud charges. More than a dozen other British executives, including senior managers at British Airways and BAE Systems, are under investigation by the US authorities and could face criminal charges in America.

Until now it was commonly assumed that US law permitted kidnapping only in the “extraordinary rendition” of terrorist suspects.

The American government has for the first time made it clear in a British court that the law applies to anyone, British or otherwise, suspected of a crime by Washington.

Legal experts confirmed this weekend that America viewed extradition as just one way of getting foreign suspects back to face trial. Rendition, or kidnapping, dates back to 19th-century bounty hunting and Washington believes it is still legitimate.….

[Lawyer Alun Jones for the United States government] said that if a person was kidnapped by the US authorities in another country and was brought back to face charges in America, no US court could rule that the abduction was illegal and free him: “If you kidnap a person outside the United States and you bring him there, the court has no jurisdiction to refuse — it goes back to bounty hunting days in the 1860s.”
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He cited the case of Humberto Alvarez Machain, a suspect who was abducted by the US government at his medical office in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1990. He was flown by Drug Enforcement Administration agents to Texas for criminal prosecution.

Although there was an extradition treaty in place between America and Mexico at the time — as there currently is between the United States and Britain — the Supreme Court ruled in 1992 that the Mexican had no legal remedy because of his abduction.

In 2005, Gavin Tollman, the head of Trafalgar Tours, a holiday company, had arrived in Toronto by plane when he was arrested by Canadian immigration authorities.

An American prosecutor, who had tried and failed to extradite him from Britain, persuaded Canadian officials to detain him. He wanted the Canadians to drive Tollman to the border to be handed over. Tollman was escorted in handcuffs from the aircraft in Toronto, taken to prison and held for 10 days.

A Canadian judge ordered his release, ruling that the US Justice Department had set a “sinister trap” and wrongly bypassed extradition rules. Tollman returned to Britain.

Legal sources said that under traditional American justice, rendition meant capturing wanted people abroad and bringing them to the United States. The term “extraordinary rendition” was coined in the 1990s for the kidnapping of terror suspects from one foreign country to another for interrogation.…


Sunday Times

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