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> Subject: Fw: [R-G] The CIA and CIA "extraordinary renditions"
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> Subject: [R-G] The CIA and CIA "extraordinary renditions"
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> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A522-2003Nov4.html
> >
> > Washington Post      November 5, 2003; Page A01
> >
> > Deported terror suspect details torture in Syria
> >
> > Canadian's case called typical of CIA
> >
> > By DeNeen L. Brown and Dana Priest
> >
> > Toronto -- A Canadian citizen who was detained last year at John F.
> Kennedy
> > International Airport in New York as a suspected terrorist said Tuesday
he
> > was secretly deported to Syria and endured 10 months of torture in a
> Syrian
> > prison.
> >
> > Maher Arar, 33, who was released last month, said at a news conference
in
> > Ottawa that he pleaded with U.S. authorities to let him continue on to
> > Canada, where he has lived for 15 years and has a family. But instead,
he
> > was flown under U.S. guard to Jordan and handed over to Syria, where he
> was
> > born. Arar denied any connection to terrorism and said he would fight to
> > clear his name.
> >
> > U.S. officials said Tuesday that Arar was deported because he had been
put
> > on a terrorist watch list after information from "multiple international
> > intelligence agencies" linked him to terrorist groups.
> >
> > Officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the Arar case
> fits
> > the profile of a covert CIA "extraordinary rendition" -- the practice of
> > turning over low-level, suspected terrorists to foreign intelligence
> > services, some of which are known to torture prisoners.
> >
> > Arar's case has brought repeated apologies from the Canadian government,
> > which says it is investigating what information the Royal Canadian
Mounted
> > Police gave to U.S. authorities. Canada's foreign minister, Bill Graham,
> > also said he would question the Syrian ambassador about Arar's
statements
> > about torture. In an interview on CBC Radio, Imad Moustafa, the Syrian
> > chargé d'affaires in Washington, denied that Arar had been tortured.
> >
> > Arar said U.S. officials apparently based the terrorism accusation on
his
> > connection to Abdullah Almalki, another Syrian-born Canadian. Almalki is
> > being detained by Syrian authorities, although no charges against him
have
> > been reported. Arar said he knew Almalki only casually before his
> detention
> > but encountered him at the Syrian prison where both were tortured.
> >
> > Arar, whose case has become a cause celebre in Canada, demanded a public
> > inquiry. "I am not a terrorist," he said. "I am not a member of al
Qaeda.
> I
> > have never been to Afghanistan."
> >
> > He said he was flying home to Montreal via New York on Sept. 26, 2002,
> from
> > a family visit to Tunisia.
> >
> > "This is when my nightmare began," he said. "I was pulled aside by
> > immigration and taken [away]. The police came and searched my bags. I
> asked
> > to make a phone call and they would not let me." He said an FBI agent
and
> a
> > New York City police officer questioned him. "I was so scared," he said.
> > "They told me I had no right to a lawyer because I was not an American
> > citizen."
> >
> > Arar said he was shackled, placed on a small jet and flown to
Washington,
> > where "a new team of people got on the plane" and took him to Amman, the
> > capital of Jordan. Arar said U.S. officials handed him over to Jordanian
> > authorities, who "blindfolded and chained me and put me in a van. . . .
> They
> > made me bend my head down in the back seat. Then these men started
beating
> > me. Every time I tried to talk, they beat me."
> >
> > Hours later, he said, he was taken to Syria and there he was forced to
> write
> > that he had been to a training camp in Afghanistan. "They kept beating
me,
> > and I had to falsely confess," he said. "I was willing to confess to
> > anything to stop the torture."
> >
> > Arar said his prison cell "was like a grave, exactly like a grave. It
had
> no
> > light, it was three feet wide, it was six feet deep, it was seven feet
> high.
> > . . . It had a metal door. There was a small opening in the ceiling.
There
> > were cats and rats up there, and from time to time, the cats peed
through
> > the opening into the cell."
> >
> > Steven Watt, a human rights fellow at the Center for Constitutional
Rights
> > in Washington, said Arar's case raised questions about U.S.
> counterterrorism
> > measures. "Here we have the United States involved in the removal of
> > somebody to a country where it knows persons in custody of security
agents
> > are tortured," Watt said. "The U.S. was possibly benefiting from the
> fruits
> > of that torture. I ask the question: Why wasn't he removed to Canada?"
> >
> > A senior U.S. intelligence official discussed the case in terms of the
> > secret rendition policy. There have been "a lot of rendition activities"
> > since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, the
> > official said. "We are doing a number of them, and they have been very
> > productive."
> >
> > Renditions are a legitimate option for dealing with suspected
terrorists,
> > intelligence officials argue. The U.S. government officially rejects the
> > assertion that it knowingly sends suspects abroad to be tortured, but
> > officials admit they sometimes do that. "The temptation is to have these
> > folks in other hands because they have different standards," one
official
> > said. "Someone might be able to get information we can't from
detainees,"
> > said another.
> >
> > Syria, where use of torture during imprisonment has been documented by
the
> > State Department, maintains a secret but growing intelligence
relationship
> > with the CIA, according to intelligence experts.
> >
> > "The Syrian government has provided some very useful assistance on al
> Qaeda
> > in the past," said Cofer Black, former director of counterterrorism at
the
> > CIA who is now the counterterrorism coordinator at the State Department.
> >
> > One senior intelligence official said Tuesday that Arar is still
believed
> to
> > have connections to al Qaeda. The Justice Department did not have enough
> > evidence to detain him when he landed in the United States, the official
> > said, and "the CIA doesn't keep people in this country."
> >
> > With those limitations, and with a secret presidential "finding"
> authorizing
> > the CIA to place suspects in foreign hands without due process, Arar may
> > have been one of the people whisked overseas by the CIA.
> >
> > In the early 1990s, renditions were exclusively law enforcement
operations
> > in which suspects were snatched by covert CIA or FBI teams and brought
to
> > the United States for trial or questioning. But CIA teams, working with
> > foreign intelligence services, now capture suspected terrorists in one
> > country and render them to another, often after U.S. interrogators have
> > tried to gain information from them.
> >
> > Renditions are considered a covert action. Congress, which oversees the
> CIA,
> > knows of only the broad authority to carry out renditions but is not
> > informed about individual cases, according to intelligence officials.
> >
> >
> > Priest reported from Washington. Staff writers John Mintz and Glenn
> Kessler
> > in Washington contributed to this report.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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