EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONS IN AFRICA

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Source: Der Spiegel

US Interrogates Terror Suspects in Ethiopian Jails

Terror suspects have been questioned by US officials in Ethiopia after being transferred from Somalia and Kenya. The captives included Europeans who were detained, interrogated and then released without charge.

The CIA's system of unlawful kidnappings of terrorist suspects known as "extraordinary renditions" appears to have been extended to the Horn of Africa. New cases have emerged of the transfer of terror suspects to prisons in third countries, where they have been questioned and allegedly mistreated -- this time in East Africa. In total more than 100 terror suspects are thought to have been arrested in Somalia and Kenya and transferred to Ethiopia to face interrogation by US officials.
In the chaos of the Ethiopian operation in Somalia that began in December 2006, a number of men and women were arrested, including at least four Britons, two Swedish citizens and one Canadian.

The government in Washington confirmed to DER SPIEGEL that "in the past few months a number of prisoners have been questioned in Ethiopia." Up to 200 agents of the CIA and FBI are thought to be currently based in Addis Ababa.

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1. The US is a rogue nation; its leaders criminals.