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CIA station chief arrested for extraordinary rendition
A former C.I.A. station chief, Robert Seldon Lady, who was convicted in Italy for his role in snatching a Muslim cleric off a Milan street and turning him over to Egypt has been arrested in Panama. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/world/europe/ex-employee-of-cia-held-in-abduction.html?ref=world The 2003 abduction of the Egyptian-born cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, was emblematic […]
Karzai accuses US of colluding with Taliban
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday accused the Taliban and the U.S. of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will worsen if most foreign troops leave. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/03/10/world/asia/ap-as-afghanistan.html?hp Karzai said two suicide bombings that killed 19 people on Saturday — one outside the Afghan Defense Ministry and the other near a police checkpoint in […]
Tortured man asks UK for £1 and an apology
Mr Belhaj and his wife were detained by US intelligence officers at Bangkok Airport in March 2004 and Belhaj was tortured for several days while his wife Fatima Bouchar, who was five months’ pregnant, was chained to a wall at a secret prison at the airport. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21651979 After being rendered- the act of transferring people […]
Dirty Babylon 