Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Some call this freedom, I call it out of control

Jack Said this: Interesting to note that one person was not allowed to enter the USA at the Atlanta Airport but the 19 Hi Jackers used the Airports before Sept. 11th..
Sept. 11th, was the greatest failure of our Government in the history of our country and no one was fired. Congress also did nothing.

Anthony Romero, ACLU executive director, said Masri's case highlighted the "culture of impunity" that has developed under the administration of US President George W. Bush.

"It should go without saying that forcibly kidnapping foreign citizens, holding them without access to a lawyer and brutalizing them is not only illegal but immoral," he said.

The ACLU said Masri's arrest was linked to the CIA's rendition program, which allows US agents to arrest terrorist suspects and transfer them abroad for interrogation without going through the courts.

The practice has been widely denounced by human rights groups and has caused a furor in European countries, some of which allegedly hosted secret CIA prisons.

Masri said his ordeal began when guards at the Macedonian border with Serbia stopped his tourist bus on New Year's Eve 2003 and confiscated his passport.
He said after 23 days of interrogation in a hotel in Skopje, he was blindfolded and taken by US agents to what he believed was an airport. Once there, he was taken into a room, stripped naked and photographed.
He said a firm object, believed to be an enema, was forced into his anus before he was put in diapers and a jumpsuit. He was then loaded onto a plane and given an injection that made him pass out. He awoke in a jail cell in Kabul.
Masri said over the next several months, interrogators repeatedly asked him whether he was acquainted with Mohamed Atta, one of the September 11 hijackers, whether he had attended Palestinian training camps and whether he associated with alleged extremists in his German hometown of Ulm.
The suit charges that not long after Masri was flown to Afghanistan, Tenet was informed he was innocent but that nonetheless he remained in custody for two additional months.
Masri said he was finally flown to Albania on May 28, 2004 and left on a deserted hilltop. He returned home to find his house empty, as his family had relocated to Lebanon.

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