OK, fuck the political correctness. In our name, our Slightly Retarded Preznit has been allowing, even personally encouraging "renditions" to happen In Our Name. This is horrifying. This is the story of one man who was mistakenly captured by the CIA and had his life destroyed. Apparently our score-keeping Retard-in-Chief has made a few other mistakes.
Coats informed the German minister that the CIA had wrongfully imprisoned one of its citizens, Khaled Masri, for five months, and would soon release him, the sources said. There was also a request: that the German government not disclose what it had been told even if Masri went public.
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The CIA inspector general is investigating a growing number of what it calls "erroneous renditions," according to several former and current intelligence officials.
One official said about three dozen names fall in that category; others believe it is fewer. The list includes several people whose identities were offered by al Qaeda figures during CIA interrogations, officials said. One turned out to be an innocent college professor who had given the al Qaeda member a bad grade, one official said.
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Masri was held for five months largely because the head of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center's al Qaeda unit "believed he was someone else," one former CIA official said. "She didn't really know. She just had a hunch."
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Members of the Rendition Group follow a simple but standard procedure: Dressed head to toe in black, including masks, they blindfold and cut the clothes off their new captives, then administer an enema and sleeping drugs. They outfit detainees in a diaper and jumpsuit for what can be a day-long trip. Their destinations: either a detention facility operated by cooperative countries in the Middle East and Central Asia, including Afghanistan, or one of the CIA's own covert prisons -- referred to in classified documents as "black sites," which at various times have been operated in eight countries, including several in Eastern Europe.
In the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the CTC was the place to be for CIA officers wanting in on the fight. The staff ballooned from 300 to 1,200 nearly overnight.
"It was the Camelot of counterterrorism," a former counterterrorism official said. "We didn't have to mess with others -- and it was fun."
IT WAS FUN? These people preach fucking morality and piety like the hypocritical pond scum that they are all the while having "fun" with making human beings suffer terribly, who may or may not have done any more than give someone a failing grade on a paper "FUN". Goddamn.
Thousands of tips and allegations about potential threats poured in after the attacks. Stung by the failure to detect the plot, CIA officers passed along every tidbit. The process of vetting and evaluating information suffered greatly, former and current intelligence officials said. "Whatever quality control mechanisms were in play on September 10th were eliminated on September 11th," a former senior intelligence official said.
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Others criticized Black's CTC for embracing a "Hollywood model" of operations, as one former longtime CIA veteran called it, eschewing the hard work of recruiting agents and penetrating terrorist networks. Instead, the new approach was similar to the flashier paramilitary operations that had worked so well in Afghanistan, and played well at the White House, where the president was keeping a scorecard of captured or killed terrorists.my em
The Retard keeps score. What, did he have Dick and Karl come in and help him out with all the integers over "21" aftre he ran out of fingers, toes and his limp noodle?
Khaled Masri came to the attention of Macedonian authorities on New Year's Eve 2003. Masri, an unemployed father of five living in Ulm, Germany, said he had gone by bus to Macedonia to blow off steam after a spat with his wife. He was taken off a bus at the Tabanovce border crossing by police because his name was similar to that of an associate of a 9/11 hijacker. The police drove him to Skopje, the capital, and put him in a motel room with darkened windows, he said in a recent telephone interview from Germany.
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"The Skopje station really wanted a scalp because everyone wanted a part of the game," a CIA officer said. Because the European Division chief at headquarters was also on vacation, the deputy dealt directly with the CTC and the head of its al Qaeda unit.
So the Skopje station wanted to get into The Retard's good graces by coughing up a Terrarist™. So they just picked out some Arabic surnamed individual in police custody.
The director of the al Qaeda unit supported that approach. She insisted he was probably a terrorist, and should be imprisoned and interrogated immediately.
Others were doubtful. They wanted to wait to see whether the passport was proved fraudulent. Beyond that, there was no evidence Masri was not who he claimed to be -- a German citizen of Arab descent traveling after a disagreement with his wife.
The unit's director won the argument. She ordered Masri captured and flown to a CIA prison in Afghanistan.
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Masri was guarded during the day by Afghans, he said. At night, men who sounded as if they spoke American-accented English showed up for the interrogation. Sometimes a man he believed was a doctor in a mask came to take photos, draw blood and collect a urine sample.
Back at the CTC, Masri's passport was given to the Office of Technical Services to analyze. By March, OTS had concluded the passport was genuine. The CIA had imprisoned the wrong man.
Simply fucking amazing.
On the day of his release, the prison's director, who Masri believed was an American, told Masri that he had been held because he "had a suspicious name," Masri said in an interview.
Several intelligence and diplomatic officials said Macedonia did not want the CIA to bring Masri back inside the country, so the agency arranged for him to be flown to Albania. Masri said he was taken to a narrow country road at dusk. When they let him off, "They asked me not to look back when I started walking," Masri said. "I was afraid they would shoot me in the back."
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Masri can find few words to explain his ordeal. "I have very bad feelings" about the United States, he said. "I think it's just like in the Arab countries: arresting people, treating them inhumanly and less than that, and with no rights and no laws."
IN OUR NAME.
The normal channels and procedures that the CIA has used for all the years of the Cold War were tossed out the window with the events of 9/11 because the fear-mongering and jingoism ruled the day. The tragic consequences of having a severly brain-damaged retard at the helm of the republic will play out for many more years than need be because of stupid shit like this.
In a world where reality rules, we've always seen the "strength" and "character" of Preznit Damaged Brain are just a sham covering for his intellectual dishonesty, personal cowardice and true lack of character or allegiance to anything other than the trappings of power accorded him by his sycophantic followers and the opportunists interested making money at the expense of our National Pride, Integrity and Security.
IN OUR NAME.
posted by Jo Fish on 12.04.05 at 01:06 PM
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Jo,
This is what we've been reduced to by the fucktard-in-chief. How different are we from Saddam or China? Human rights are out the window with these bozos. How many innocents are being ruined in our war on terror? And how long before our citizens start being body snatched in the night? Disgusting!
posted by: hate-the-kool-aid on 12.04.05 at 02:59 PM [permalink]
I have often tried to tell people what it was like to be in Romania under its little Fearless Leader and people here are still absolutely shocked, shocked that the gummint there took (read disappeared) citizens in the night, or in the day for that matter, or destroyed the villages they lived in (like mine--I was a child at the time)... Let's save our Republic!
posted by: Nina on 12.04.05 at 06:51 PM [permalink]
Howard Roberts
A Seven-point plan for an Exit Strategy in Iraq
1) A timetable for the complete withdrawal of American and British forces must be announced.
I envision the following procedure, but suitable fine-tuning can be applied by all the people involved.
A) A ceasefire should be offered by the Occupying side to representatives of both the Sunni insurgency and the Shiite community. These representatives would be guaranteed safe passage, to any meetings. The individual insurgency groups would designate who would attend.
At this meeting a written document declaring a one-month ceasefire, witnessed by a United Nations authority, will be fashioned and eventually signed. This document will be released in full, to all Iraqi newspapers, the foreign press, and the Internet.
B) US and British command will make public its withdrawal, within sixth-months of 80 % of their troops.
C) Every month, a team of United Nations observers will verify the effectiveness of the ceasefire.
All incidences on both sides will be reported.
D) Combined representative armed forces of both the Occupying nations and the insurgency organizations that agreed to the cease fire will protect the Iraqi people from actions by terrorist cells.
E) Combined representative armed forces from both the Occupying nations and the insurgency organizations will begin creating a new military and police force. Those who served, with out extenuating circumstances, in the previous Iraqi military or police, will be given the first option to serve.
F) After the second month of the ceasefire, and thereafter, in increments of 10-20% ,a total of 80% will be withdrawn, to enclaves in Qatar and Bahrain. The governments of these countries will work out a temporary land-lease housing arrangement for these troops. During the time the troops will be in these countries they will not stand down, and can be re-activated in the theater, if both the chain of the command still in Iraq, the newly formed Iraqi military, the leaders of the insurgency, and two international ombudsman (one from the Arab League, One from the United Nations), as a majority, deem it necessary.
G) One-half of those troops in enclaves will leave three-months after they arrive, for the United States or other locations, not including Iraq.
H) The other half of the troops in enclaves will leave after six-months.
I) The remaining 20 % of the Occupying troops will, during this six month interval, be used as peace-keepers, and will work with all the designated organizations, to aid in reconstruction and nation-building.
J) After four months they will be moved to enclaves in the above mentioned countries.
They will remain, still active, for two month, until their return to the States, Britain and the other involved nations.
2) At the beginning of this period the United States will file a letter with the Secretary General of the Security Council of the United Nations, making null and void all written and proscribed orders by the CPA, under R. Paul Bremer. This will be announced and duly noted.
3) At the beginning of this period all contracts signed by foreign countries will be considered in abeyance until a system of fair bidding, by both Iraqi and foreign countries, will be implemented ,by an interim Productivity and Investment Board, chosen from pertinent sectors of the Iraqi economy.
Local representatives of the 18 provinces of Iraq will put this board together, in local elections.
4) At the beginning of this period, the United Nations will declare that Iraq is a sovereign state again, and will be forming a Union of 18 autonomous regions. Each region will, with the help of international experts, and local bureaucrats, do a census as a first step toward the creation of a municipal government for all 18 provinces. After the census, a voting roll will be completed. Any group that gets a list of 15% of the names on this census will be able to nominate a slate of representatives. When all the parties have chosen their slates, a period of one-month will be allowed for campaigning.
Then in a popular election the group with the most votes will represent that province.
When the voters choose a slate, they will also be asked to choose five individual members of any of the slates.
The individuals who have the five highest vote counts will represent a National government.
This whole process, in every province, will be watched by international observers as well as the local bureaucrats.
During this process of local elections, a central governing board, made up of United Nations, election governing experts, insurgency organizations, US and British peacekeepers, and Arab league representatives, will assume the temporary duties of administering Baghdad, and the central duties of governing.
When the ninety representatives are elected they will assume the legislative duties of Iraq for two years.
Within three months the parties that have at least 15% of the representatives will nominate candidates for President and Prime Minister.
A national wide election for these offices will be held within three months from their nomination.
The President and the Vice President and the Prime Minister will choose their cabinet, after the election.
5) All debts accrued by Iraq will be rescheduled to begin payment, on the principal after one year, and on the interest after two years. If Iraq is able to handle another loan during this period she should be given a grace period of two years, from the taking of the loan, to comply with any structural adjustments.
6) The United States and the United Kingdom shall pay Iraq reparations for its invasion in the total of 120 billion dollars over a period of twenty years for damages to its infrastructure. This money can be defrayed as investment, if the return does not exceed 6.5 %.
7) During beginning period Saddam Hussein and any other prisoners who are deemed by a Council of Iraqi Judges, elected by the National representative body, as having committed crimes will be put up for trial.
The trial of Saddam Hussein will be before seven judges, chosen from this Council of Judges.
One judge, one jury, again chosen by this Council, will try all other prisoners.
All defendants will have the right to present any evidence they want, and to choose freely their own lawyers.
posted by: Howard Roberts on 12.04.05 at 08:29 PM [permalink]
So now we have the Rendon Group (as per the Rolling Stones article) "fixing" news reports to twist reality and distort people's perceptions to further a warmongering neo-con agenda around the world...
and we have the CIA's Rendition Group which grabs people and tortures them to further the warmongering neo-con agenda around the world.
Rendon Group - Rendition Group.
All these folks, sadly to say, have sold their souls to the devil. And for this, they will all assuredly...be promoted or receive the Medal of Freedom. Just another typical day in the work of the devil.
posted by: The Oracle on 12.05.05 at 08:08 AM [permalink]
It looks like Condi isn't shocked, shocked that secret rendition centre networks have been placed in Europe--breaking suspects in these centres has saved lives! That makes me feel so much safer.
posted by: Nina on 12.05.05 at 10:35 AM [permalink]
you sack of shit disloyal scum should form a fucking knitting tea time club and GET OFF THE INTERNET.
geesh, what a gang of nattering bitches.
fuck you bunch of self serving self loving Democrat panty chewers.
I have never been so ashamed of my country until that shit took office. Since our administration has been fighting for torture and people are being mistreated left and right, I've never been so ashamed of humanity--it doesn't seem to be accepted just by this country...I want to now why other countries aren't loudly stepping up. (and when I say "why", I mean a good reason, not some bullshit political one).
Who let that panty waste in here? Jo, yer slippin'.
posted by: Barndog on 12.05.05 at 08:31 PM [permalink]
Old Ranger sure is upset. I guess we really ought to just shut up because he is THE PATRIOT. I knew guys like him and I always had this feeling that if this were Nazi Germany, they would make good Nazis, too. I'm disloyal scum? Why? Because I don't support his president? Well, NO I DON'T. This Vietnam avoiding asshole has fucked up many things. Top on my list is his FAILURE to get the terrorist network that attacked the US on September 11, 2001. Usama bin Ladin will die a natural death at this rate. WW II was shorter. AMERICANS, the majority thereof, have lost confidence in this president ending HIS WAR in Iraq. He LLLLIIIEEEDDD us into this particulair area of concern and stretched our forces dearly. There are many GOOD Americans who do not support the waste in Iraq, but do support getting bin Ladin. That should have ended a long time ago. And, I'm curious... just why do the terrorists hate us so much? Because of average Americans like myself... or because of assholes like GW, oil corporations and past US government policies favoring those corporations (mainly Republican policies)? By the way, Old Ranger, are you now in Iraq? And were you really a ranger, or is that the name of your dog?
