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Iraq Tentacles Continue

The consequences of the Iraq invasion continue to be both damaging and internationally far reaching. From the AFP via Truthout:

The United States was facing mounting embarrassment as allegations continued to emerge of a shadowy network of both secret prison camps and CIA "torture flights" carrying undeclared detainees through European and other countries.
 
In the latest such report the British newspaper The Guardian said Thursday it had seen navigation logs showing that more than 300 flights operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency had passed through European airports, as part of a network that could be involved in the clandestine detention and possible torture of terrorism suspects.

The claims have emerged since November 2, when the Washington Post newspaper reported that "black site" prisons were, or had been, located in eight countries including Thailand, Afghanistan and "several democracies in Eastern Europe" since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

The paper also said that the CIA had used planes to send more than 100 suspects to the hidden global internment network, not including prisoners picked up from Iraq.

It must be said that making the war on terrorism above the law has resulted in a lot of negative outcomes. When one refuses to say that we don't torture, when one refuses to sign legislation prohibiting torture to not tie Bush's hands and when you write defenses allowing the US to torture, this is the result. International confusion. All of this without mention that the concept of 'detainee' as this new supercategory of prisoner and the fallout will be seen for a generation.

[Source: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120205C.shtml]

posted by niteskolar @ 4:14 PM