Iraqi Informant Gives Details Of MI5 Betrayal - Illegal Torture Flights & Gitmo
Via Guardian Unlimited: (h/t GM)
An Iraqi who was a key source of intelligence for MI5 has given the first ever full insider's account of being seized by the CIA and bundled on to an illegal 'torture flight' under the programme known as extraordinary rendition. In a remarkable interview for The Observer, British resident Bisher al-Rawi has told how he was betrayed by the security service despite having helped keep track of Abu Qatada, the Muslim cleric accused of being Osama bin Laden's 'ambassador in Europe'. He was abducted and stripped naked by US agents, clad in nappies, a tracksuit and shackles, blindfolded and forced to wear ear mufflers, then strapped to a stretcher on board a plane bound for a CIA 'black site' jail near Kabul in Afghanistan.
He was taken on to the jail at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba before being released last March and returned to Britain after four years' detention without charge.
He was thrown into the CIA's 'Dark Prison,' deprived of all light 24 hours a day in temperatures so low that ice formed on his food and water. He was taken to Guantanamo in March 2003 and released after being cleared of any involvement in terrorism by a tribunal.
A report by Parliament's intelligence and security committee last week disclosed that, although the Americans warned MI5 it planned to render al-Rawi in advance, in breach of international law, the British did not intervene on the grounds he did not have a UK passport. The government claimed he was the responsibility of Iraq, which he fled as a teenager when his father was tortured by Saddam Hussein's regime. Read more...
OMG!
Yup - all in the name of bringing Bin Laden to justice. Bravo.
Hmmmm. Sounds like an extended vacation at a Club Med resort doesn't it.
The lucky bastard.
Lucky he's free and still alive to talk about it, that is.
ready...
aim...
fire!
wtf? ow! ow! ow! was that my own foot? gawddammit!
Well done, US!
/sarcasm
Will GW Botch and Dick(head) "Puppet Master" Cheney be charged and tried at The Hague??
Gawddamnit I hope so!!!
What an object lesson in how to create an extremist.
Can you say BLOWBACK?
Even if you have a U.S. passport and the CIA wants you, they will get you. They only have to destroy the evidence.....you. "Oh....that one went missing. Should have read the State Department's travel warnings".
Thats why you only here about Brits that have been taken. MI5, is not answerable to the pentagon.
Is there any doubt that the barbarians are in charge at the CIA? Animals, brutal animals.
I am ashamed of our government. They are criminals.
Winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqis.
Stupid Bush. He invades a stable Iraq and destabilizes the entire region, gets our kids killed, causes the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, sets up an Iraqi government that turns into OUR ENEMY, then makes the entire world hate us with this "redition & torture" crap.
Is there any doubt in anybody's mind, that George W Bush is a complete and utter jackass?
O.K... wait for it...
Wait...wait...
Any time now we're going to hear from the right wing noise machine what a liar this dude is as opposed to that fountain of truth and virtuosity, the guy who told them the civil war in Iraq is a hoax.
No Time Like the Past
A war-weary scientists travels back to the year 1881, to live in simpler times. But he discovers that some things never change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OBnFzF7m4k
Everyone, calm down. Maybe they were not told to torture and imprison him by our leaders....maybe it was just a few rouge federal officers who commandeered a CIA plane, tortured him in U.S. organized rendition sites, and held him for four years in prisons run by our government (on U.S. soil in Cuba) without our Decider knowing anything about it....maybe? That's what the Decider and Rummy told me about Abu Ghraib, and they have never given me a reason to doubt their integrity or honesty.
Shame, shame and more shame!
America
The land of the free(from moral guidlines)
The home of the brave talkers
We scream democracy
While rigging elections
Get on our moral high horse
And beat the horse with electrical cords
We allow 18,000 of our own to die each year
Due to our need to line the pockets of the health insurance industry
Had a vacation recently?
How are your two to three jobs working out?
We need somebody to hate
To take our minds off of our problems
Let's kidnap and torture people
We think are evil doers
There
All better now
Bush should be water boarded just for fun.
Limp-Dick Blimpaugh @ 16:
No. That would make us him. Being Bush is not anything to aspire to.
Sheesh! I don't take torture well. I guess I have a weak stomach for that.
Come on, guys, the muslims will never overthrow the U.S. This war is between the muslims and the Jewish enterprise. U.S. has been meddling for wrong reasons. I am sorry that we as humans do not abide by the due process of law.
Do we have to torture unnecessarily?
Oil and water don't bond and similarly there is a curse between the muslims and the jews. They don't bond, but repell resulting in this disaster.
Bisher al-Rawi needs to tell his story to the International Criminal Court at the Hague. This was a war crime and a crime against humanity. He should also take it to the Germans - who reserve the right to pursue war criminals from any nation, from any conflict. It would do my heart good to see Blair, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and all of rest of the thugs who have had any involvement, however minor, in these criminal atrocities be dogged for the rest of their lives by international arrest warrants. It would be even better to see them brought to justice at a world tribunal. They are the very worst kind of monsters. A cancer upon the world.
On 9/11, American civilians were attacked without cause. Two possible responses, and Bush chose the wrong one: the next six years have been spent giving people cause to carry out further attacks. Can he really be a radical Jihadist puppet? Or is he trying to trigger the Rapture?
Limp-Dick Blimpaugh @ 16:
I recall an old cartoon showing a dungeon with some guy hanging from wrist shackles. Two torturers with hoods and whips are talking to some guy in uniform. The caption reads:
"Oh, no! He told us everything he knows already. We're just having fun now!"
How about the hearts and minds of the Americans? I should think this travesty would serve to disgust us all.
Thats what they'd like to do us and everyone else who disagrees with this Administration. Which is most of America now days.
The chickens are coming home to roost! Where's the justice? Anywhere in the world will do, with rendition the whole globe comes into play.
In response to 20 Mark:
There are times I let go of these events and surrender to G-d's wisdom. He might be using these players to bring about his purpose for humanity to have a better world in the future.
G-d can use the prophets, evil, or whoever to fulfill his kingdom come during the messianic age.
Every time I read one of these articles I wonder what is going to happen to America in the next six years.
Word of Wisdom to the tortured prisoners:
Call on the name of "Yeshua" and you will be spared from the tribulation.
Yeshua came to set the captives free from their bondage. You will have a better day one day.
davejoch @ 26:
There's going to be a lot of work to do.
MarkC @ 20:
I hate to disagree with you; i know your heart is in the right place, but it was not without cause. In 1953 we overthrew Iran and installed the Shah. Among other things we have made a fortune manipulating people since World War II. We used Afghanistan and Muslims to fight the Soviet Union in the 1980's and then just walked away.
xoites defends Constitution @ 29:
Brits and a lot of other people have been f---ing with the Arabs for a long time. And dark skinned people in general. Nothings changed.
Yes, I know.
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So just what is the difference between Saddam Hussein and George W Bush?
Wow, they left out South Padre Island.
foolme1ns @ 32:
Saddam didn't care if you knew he was behind torture, he used it to maintain order and stabilize his country. W pretends he is clueless (well he is clueless, but you know what I mean) to the torture, while he and Dick use it to destabilize Iraq.
So just what is the difference between Saddam Hussein and George W Bush?
Saddam is already in Hell.
foolme1ns @ 32:
Saddam pulled out early
There is no real reason to be surprised by this, given the unprecedented incompetence of the Boosh regime. Can't even committ a war crime without fucking it up.
All in the name of catching OBL. Our preznit couldn't catch syphillis in a whorehouse...
Torturing them over there so we don't have to torture them over here.
The USA is becoming one of the worst human rights abusers in modern times thanks to this administration.
This is truely fucked thing to do. He'd been helping them, and turned around and etrayed him, just like they do to their translators in Iraq? these people are fucking stupid.
Like they did to Noriega, Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, our military men and women, (large numbers of whom have been wounded, traumatized and now live on American streets dodging cops) and many, many others.
I blame Scott Beauchamp.
/snark
South Padre Island I escaped there this week sshhh don't tell anyone. I am in hiding.
New wrinkle the right has learned to spell communist so now everyone and everyhting is communist. Wow it must be great being a mental midget.
So this is the vaunted interrogation system that we have, which in this case resulted in a man being released after being held for four years without charges. Very effective.
I hate Bush and the neo cons for what they have done to our country. I am so ashamed of this country. But we can reverse the damage. First though we have to remove this cancerous administration. Momentum is building for the downfall of these fascists. Get angry, get involved. MAKE A CALL. SEND AN EMAIL. Contact your reps and put the heat on. DEMAND IMPEACHMENT.
phone your own Congress Member at 202-224-3121 and ask them to immediately call Conyers’ office to express their support for impeachment.
Grebo? Having lived in Sweden for 10 years.. Where's Grebo?
Ah.. should be Örebro, in 2002. CIA-registered plane stopped there, continued from there to Keflavik (Iceland), a US military base.
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