Monday, October 23, 2006

Wisked away...

From The Times of London:

Londoner was victim of secret CIA rendition
A FORMER inmate of the Guantanamo Bay camp has been identified as the first British citizen known to have been subjected to the CIA’s practice of rendition — the capture and transfer of terrorism suspects across the world without legal process.


Newly revealed flight logs of a CIA Gulfstream executive jet — detailed in a book to be published this week — indicate that it was used in April 2002 to transport Martin Mubanga, a Londoner now aged 33, to Guantanamo after he was captured in Zambia.

I fail to understand the reasoning for the secrecy of someone like this. If they are terror suspects and the government has a reason to believe they would do us harm, wouldn't they want to trumpet their 'catch' both for political reasons and as a message to the terrorists?

My experience: People hide things when they have something to hide.

GP

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