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Broadway World
April 28, 2018
Merideth Kaye Clark: At the Intersection of Broadway and Blue. Join singer, songwriter, and actress Merideth Kaye Clark for a spellbinding evening, as she juxtaposes an extraordinary rendition of Joni Mitchell's masterpiece, Blue, with a beautifully curated song list of Broadway's most intimate songs.
Vox
April 28, 2018
The case has some echoes of President George W. Bush's so-called “extraordinary rendition” program, in which CIA operatives sent terror suspects to 54 countries, several of which later tortured the prisoners. But the new case has a key difference: It appears to be the first time in recent history that theÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 26, 2018
In late 2002, Haslep took over the operation of Cat's Eye, a CIA extraordinary rendition blacksite in Thailand under the agency's Rendition, Detention and Interrogation (RDI) Program, and it is known that under her watch a suspect was waterboarded three times. Haspel later oversaw the destruction ofÃâà...
Orlando Weekly
April 26, 2018
It's a poignant comparison, even if it glosses over such niggling historical details as the George W. Bush administration's torture and extraordinary rendition programs and a war started under false pretenses. But it hearkens back to a time, just a few years ago, when (nostalgia tells us) sober-minded adultsÃâà...
BBC News
April 19, 2018
A Syrian-born German jihadist linked to the 11 September 2001 attackers has reportedly been detained by Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. A commander of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces alliance told the AFP news agency that Mohammed Haydar Zammar was in custody and being questionedÃâà...
Press Herald
April 18, 2018
She has been described as “a torturer” and “a war criminal” for her participation, as the CIA's chief of base in Thailand, in the extraordinary rendition program. Under extraordinary rendition, so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” were applied to captured al-Qaida suspects after the 9/11 attacks,Ãâà...
Democracy Now!
April 6, 2018
New details have emerged about a secret program by Turkey's intelligence agency to seize Turkish critics of Tayyip Erdogan across the globe. A top Turkish official has revealed Turkey has seized about 80 Turkish citizens in 18 countries. The program has been compared to the U.S. extraordinary renditionÃâà...
Balkan Insight
April 4, 2018
El-Masri claimed that he was captured in Macedonia as part of the CIA rendition programme and was a victim of a mistaken ''extraordinary rendition'' by the CIA. He has held Macedonia responsible for the ordeal. He said he was wrongfully arrested in Macedonia in December 31, 2003, held in isolation,Ãâà...
The Guardian
April 2, 2018
In a joint letter to Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, five human rights groups – including Fair Trials Abroad, Reprieve and Redress, as well as Amnesty International and Liberty – have warned: “The deep and lasting stain of UK complicity in extraordinary rendition and torture over the so-called war onÃâà...
Truth-Out
April 1, 2018
She played a pretty direct role in the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, and she's alleged to have overseen, specifically, the violent interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and [Abd al-Rahim] al-Nashiri. So it seems pretty clear that, while we don't have all the evidence, that she did play a pretty big and directÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 30, 2018
After 9/11, in what came to be known as “extraordinary rendition,” the United States apprehended scores of foreign nationals accused of terrorism, many of whom it then sent to third countries for harsh treatment, including torture — a policy that soon ignited ferocious domestic and international criticism.
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
March 30, 2018
The president also appointed CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo as CIA director. As an undercover CIA officer, Haspel played a direct role in the agency's extraordinary rendition program, under which suspected militants were sent to foreign nations and held at secret facilities, where theyÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
March 21, 2018
Over the last sixteen years, orchestrated in the name of national security, we have seen the growth of imperial apparatuses of torture, extraordinary rendition, secret prisons, “black sites,” drones, and statelessness. An alliance of states led by the United States has not only increased the repressive capacitiesÃâà...
The Week UK
March 19, 2018
However, according to a report in The New York Times in February last year, she played a direct role in the agency's “extraordinary rendition” programme, under which suspected militants were remanded to foreign governments and held at secret facilities, where they were tortured by CIA personnel.
New York Times
March 14, 2018
Ms. Haspel played a direct role in the C.I.A.'s global kidnap, detention and torture operation known as “extraordinary rendition.” Under the program, which was adopted after the 9/11 attacks, suspected militants who were captured in Afghanistan were sent to other countries, which held them in secretÃâà...
The Hill
March 13, 2018
He noted that the extraordinary rendition program put in place after the September 11, 2001, attacks was now banned. “They were operating under what was the accepted practice of the day,” Nelson said. Haspel can expect tough questions during her confirmation hearing on the role she played in theÃâà...
NPR
March 13, 2018
"Torture, extraordinary rendition, and indefinite detention are unacceptable, and we cannot allow human rights abuses to be condoned in the name of national security," she said. Many Democrats, however, may fully oppose Haspel. Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico bothÃâà...
Papermag
March 2, 2018
Since launching last year's powerful queer anthem "U.S. Gay," New York City's Sons Of An Illustrious Father has been on a creative roll. It should be no surprise that their new song "Extraordinary Rendition" lives up to the band's burgeoning hype. Comprised of Josh Aubin, Lilah Larson, and Ezra Miller, theyÃâà...
The National
February 28, 2018
The pair were detained in Thailand in March 2004 after a tipoff from MI6 and were forcibly returned to Tripoli to the government of then Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi in an operation named 'extraordinary rendition'. They say that masked CIA officers detained them at Bangkok airport, strappedÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 22, 2018
Amnesty said Makhtal's transfer to Ethiopia was "tantamount to an instance of extraordinary rendition", adding it was "very likely" he had been subjected to torture or other forms of cruel treatment in Ethiopia. The prevalence of torture in Ethiopia - described as a "major problem" in Human Rights Watch'sÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
February 20, 2018
In cases involving unlawful removal of people from Russia, the European Court of Human Rights has warned that “any extra-judicial transfer or extraordinary rendition, by its deliberate circumvention of due process, is an absolute negation of the rule of law and the values protected by the Convention.
FAIR
February 15, 2018
This pretends that the US's massive global torture regime—which involved drownings, beatings, sleep deprivation and sexual humiliation, among other techniques, along with “extraordinary rendition” to allied countries for less refined torture methods–was something other than a deliberate policy initiative.
The Times
February 11, 2018
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured in Pakistan in 2003 and spent the next three years in secret prisons run by the CIA as part of the infamous “extraordinary rendition” programme, under the administration of President George W Bush. At the heart of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's defence is the claimÃâà...
GC Advocate
December 31, 1999
The Central Intelligence Agency and US military used the base, ironically named Camp Justice, as part of its program of extraordinary rendition during the presidential tenure of George W. Bush. The US base on Chagos also housed “black sites,” where rendered individuals from across the globe would beÃâà...
MyAJC
December 31, 1999
Monday's Episode 10.5 samples the closing arguments in the case, including prosecutor Clint Rucker's extraordinary rendition of a poem, adapted from the movie “Antwone Fisher,” to begin his closing. You can listen to “Breakdown” on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or your favorite podcasting platform. Or youÃâà...
Intelligence Online
December 31, 1999
Donald Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel as head of the CIA on March 13 has led to an outpouring in the press. Her position in the agency's extraordinary rendition programmes after 9/11 has overshadowed the bigger question of what impact her promotion to the top slot is likely to have. Not only willÃâà...
Hyperallergic
December 31, 1999
The focus of “Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition” (2016) is not the CIA's running of operations at black sites overseas, though Clark did visit two such sites, he said. The artist collaborated with counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black in an attempt to document a global network ofÃâà...
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