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Terror Suspects Secretly Moved By U.S.
TACTICS: Prisoners Taken Where Torture, Threats Are Legal

By RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN And PETER FINN, Washington Post

In October, for instance, a Yemeni microbiology student wanted in connection with
the bombing of the USS Cole was flown from Pakistan to Jordan on a
U.S.-registered Gulfstream jet after Pakistan's intelligence agency surrendered him to
U.S. authorities at the Karachi airport, Pakistani government sources said. The
hand-over of the shackled and blindfolded student, Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed,
who was alleged to be an al Qaeda operative, occurred in the middle of the night at
a remote corner of the airport without extradition or deportation procedures, the
sources said.

U.S. forces seized five Algerians and a Yemeni in Bosnia on Jan. 19 and flew them
to a detention camp at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after they
were ordered released by the Bosnian Supreme Court for lack of evidence - and
despite an injunction from the Bosnian Human Rights Chamber that four of them be
allowed to remain in the country pending further proceedings.

U.S. involvement in seizing terrorism suspects in third countries and shipping them
with few or no legal proceedings to the United States or other countries - known as
"rendition" - is not new. In recent years, U.S. agents, working with Egyptian
intelligence and local authorities in Africa, Central Asia and the Balkans, have sent
dozens of suspected Islamic extremists to Cairo or taken them to the United States,
according to U.S. officials, Egyptian lawyers and human rights groups. U.S.
authorities are urging Pakistan to take the same step with the chief suspect in the
kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.


Terror Suspects Secretly Moved By U.S.
TACTICS: Prisoners Taken
Where Torture, Threats Are Legal

March 12, 2002
By RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN And PETER FINN, Washington Post

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Since Sept. 11, the U.S. government has secretly
transported dozens of terrorist suspects to countries other than the United States,
bypassing extradition procedures and legal formalities, according to Western
diplomats and intelligence sources.

The suspects have been taken to countries, including Egypt and Jordan, whose
intelligence services have close ties to the CIA and where they can be subjected to
interrogation tactics - including torture and threats to families - that are illegal in the
United States, the sources said. In some cases, U.S. intelligence agents remain
closely involved in the interrogation, the sources said.

"After September 11, these sorts of movements have been occurring all the time," a
U.S. diplomat said. "It allows us to get information from terrorists in a way we can't
do on U.S. soil."

The case of Muhammad Saad Iqbal Madni, who arrived in Indonesia from Pakistan
in mid-November, shows how the procedure has been used abroad to take Islamic
activists into custody in cooperation with the CIA.

Iqbal betrayed little about his former life in Pakistan, except to pass out business
cards identifying himself as a Koran reader for an Islamic radio station. But the CIA
told Indonesian agents that he had another occupation, Indonesian officials and
foreign diplomats said. Iqbal, they said, was an al Qaeda operative who had worked
with Richard Reid, the Briton charged with trying to blow up an American Airlines
flight in December.

The CIA gave Indonesia information about Iqbal's whereabouts and urged his
capture, and a few days later Egypt formally asked for his extradition, the officials
and diplomats said. By early January, Iqbal was in the hands of Indonesian
intelligence agents. Without a court hearing or a lawyer, he was hustled aboard an
unmarked, U.S.-registered Gulfstream jet and flown to Egypt, the Indonesian
officials said.

Iqbal remains in custody in Egypt, intelligence sources said. The sources said he has
been questioned by U.S. agents but there was no word on his legal status, a situation
that resembles that of other Islamic activists taken into custody in cooperation with
the CIA.

A similar process was used for several other wanted Islamic activists living abroad.

In October, for instance, a Yemeni microbiology student wanted in connection with
the bombing of the USS Cole was flown from Pakistan to Jordan on a
U.S.-registered Gulfstream jet after Pakistan's intelligence agency surrendered him to
U.S. authorities at the Karachi airport, Pakistani government sources said. The
hand-over of the shackled and blindfolded student, Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed,
who was alleged to be an al Qaeda operative, occurred in the middle of the night at
a remote corner of the airport without extradition or deportation procedures, the
sources said.

U.S. forces seized five Algerians and a Yemeni in Bosnia on Jan. 19 and flew them
to a detention camp at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after they
were ordered released by the Bosnian Supreme Court for lack of evidence - and
despite an injunction from the Bosnian Human Rights Chamber that four of them be
allowed to remain in the country pending further proceedings.

U.S. involvement in seizing terrorism suspects in third countries and shipping them
with few or no legal proceedings to the United States or other countries - known as
"rendition" - is not new. In recent years, U.S. agents, working with Egyptian
intelligence and local authorities in Africa, Central Asia and the Balkans, have sent
dozens of suspected Islamic extremists to Cairo or taken them to the United States,
according to U.S. officials, Egyptian lawyers and human rights groups. U.S.
authorities are urging Pakistan to take the same step with the chief suspect in the
kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

In 1998, U.S. agents spirited Talaat Fouad Qassem, 38, a reputed leader of the
Islamic Group, an Egyptian extremist organization, to Egypt after he was picked up
in Croatia while traveling to Bosnia from Denmark, where he had been granted
political asylum. Qassem was allegedly an associate of Ayman Zawahiri, the No. 2
man in Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.

U.S. intelligence officers are also believed to have participated in the 1998 seizure in
Azerbaijan of three members of Egypt's other main underground group, Egyptian
Islamic Jihad, according to testimony provided to their attorneys in Cairo.

Between 1993 and 1999, terrorism suspects also were sent to the United States
from Nigeria, the Philippines, Kenya and South Africa in operations acknowledged
by U.S. officials. Dozens of other covert renditions, often with Egyptian cooperation,
were also conducted, U.S. officials said. The details of most of these operations,
which often ignored local and international extradition laws, remain closely guarded.

Even when local intelligence agents are involved, diplomats said it is preferable to
transfer a suspect secretly because it prevents lengthy court battles and minimizes
publicity that could tip off the detainee's associates. Sending suspects to a third
country, particularly Muslim nations such as Egypt or Jordan, also helps to defuse
domestic political concerns in predominantly Muslim nations such as Indonesia, the
diplomats said.
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phuloi

Registered to :Aug 24, 2001
Messages :358
From :Sequim,Wa.
Posted 12-03-2002 at 13:47
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GOOD...And as soon as they have given up all the information in thier possession..put them before a military tribunal,convict them of war crimes,and execute them!
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War is fear cloaked in courage...... Westmoreland...Peace..Griz


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catman

Registered to :Sep 02, 2001
Messages :43
From lum city, wi
Posted 12-03-2002 at 20:22
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why waste the money on a court hearing?
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Godspeed and keep low!