Bush Administration sued for kidnapping and torture?
By glazou on Thursday 17 March 2005, 10:35 - General - Permalink
If you are an American citizen, if you still think the United States carry democratic and high moral values, you should try to read a translation of this article. A German citizen of libanese ascent was arrested at the Macedonian border and detained 23 days without judgement before being handed to CIA, suspected to belong to Al-Qaeda, kidnapped to Afghanistan, jailed and tortured there SIX MONTHS and then freed because it was probably a big mistake (there's probably a guy with terrorist links having the same first and family names...), and finally taken back to Albania (why the hell Albania ?) and dropped there as if nothing ever happened. What kind of world is this? Shame, shame, shame.
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Typical case of "delit de sale nom" (dirty/ugly name misconduct?).
Sounds like a big surprise to some people !
US officials, UN envoyees had laready reported this kind of misbehaving long ago.... I used to be fired up a "and how about goulag" whenever I mentionned this.....
Well, that's just the kind of autism we have to fight when we talk about free software, EU constitution social coverage and so on....
let's keep reading between the lines (not imposed lines from "aux ordres" media).
Not a translation, but the Guardian ran the same story: www.guardian.co.uk/afghan...
But if the guy was a terrorist. And he bombed something. And 100 people or something should die by this attack. Do you take the blame for that? Better safe then sorry. You better pay no attention to politics in your blog. You better pay attention to the product you make it is great. But you political opinion i find not so interesting.
Greetingszzzzzzzz Aasgier
A story has always more sides to it. Not always what you see in the news on in the papers is the real story.
assgier: allowing states to act like that just on the argument "he could be _something_" is just fascism, not democracy. Ok he could be. But in that case, he WAS NOT. How are the US going to apologize for that? What about the 6 months he spent in jail, tortured? What are the international laws allowing the US to kidnap a foreign citizen on a foreign soil and detain him in a third country? Pffff.
Such behaviour from a "civilized" country is just unacceptable. Even with all the terrorist threats.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." said Benjamin Franklin. It seems CIA don't remember the history of their own country. Very disturbing i think...
There is somehting we have here in the US called due process, and the Bush administration has tried to do everything they can to throw that in the trash.
If you agree with this sort of behavior, no wonder you can't see Guantanamo as the foreshadowing of the Nazi death camp it will someday be.
Daniel, please don't feed trolls like assgier
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I had once a laden washing machine, will i be arrested by the CIA for intelligency with terrorists? :-)
Nothing surprising, yankees have forgotten another 9/11 in Chile they helped to success and that they were part of the plan Condor.
Well, every country has its shades, it's time to USA to recognize it.
HI guys do not misunderstand me. I do not say it is good or bad. It just says wait till you judge. You now have read one side of this story you have to wait to hear the other side of this story. Lately nearly everybocy follows the hypes that are created some true some are false. I just asked you to wait and balance the storie from more then one site an the give your judgement. Lets wait how this story continues.
>>What are the international laws allowing the US to kidnap<<
The US did not "kidnap" him. He obviously did something to raise the attention of the Macedonian police. Guilt by association is a terrible thing, but that is just how it is for Middle Eastern people now.
<<was seized by Macedonian police at the border, held incommunicado for weeks without charge, then beaten, stripped, shackled and blindfolded and flown to a jail in Afghanistan, run by Afghans but controlled by Americans.>>
I think this was part of a larger story on the CIA's "rendition" program that aired on the US television program 60 Minutes a week or two ago. See www.cbsnews.com/stories/2...
Do you really think that macedonia cares about that crap named "war against terrorism" ?
Off course, if it were Macedonia who had arrested him, they would have sent him to afghanistan, CIA has never kidnapped people neither asked some of their allies which are less strict about torture to question some people for them ...
Why the hell do you want he had done something to raise the attention ? God, if another country had done the same to an american citizen, that would have been a WW3 to avenge him, and there "obviously he didn't do something to raise the attention "
A German from the middle-east must be a terrorist!
...Welcome Italy!