Human Rights Watch: CIA Sent 14 Suspects to Jordan For Interrogation After September 11

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

(04-08) 15:56 PDT AMMAN, Jordan (AP) --

A human rights group said Tuesday that the CIA transferred at least 14 terror suspects to Jordan for interrogation after September 11.

Human Rights Watch said in a new report that the U.S. ally in the Mideast served as a proxy jailer for the CIA until at least 2004.

"The Bush administration claims that it has not transferred people to foreign custody for abusive interrogation," said Joanne Mariner, the group's terrorism and counterterrorism director. "But we've documented more than a dozen cases in which prisoners were sent to Jordan for torture."

It said its 36-page report was based mainly on information from former Jordanian prisoners who had been detained with non-Jordanian terrorism suspects.

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The CIA declined to comment on the report, with spokesman Paul Gimigliano saying that "the agency does not, as a rule, comment publicly on allegations of specific rendition activities." But he defended renditions as a "lawful, valuable tool."

"They have been used for years to take terrorists off the streets," he said. "The United States does not transport individuals for the purpose of torture, and has no interest in any process that would produce bad intelligence."


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[Demeter]

1. Add It to the War Crimes List, Sir

Someday perhaps the courts will get around to it.

[Solly Mack]

2. Note the wording...their "purpose" isn't torture...

"The United States does not transport individuals for the purpose of torture..."

torture just happens (doncha know) in the process of achieving their real??? "purpose"...

[DCKit]

3. It's not lying when you're parsing.

It's a shame we have to dissect every sentence to find the true meaning of what we're hearing. You have to admit, the last seven years have been one hell of an education.

I still think * is being literal when speaking of "The War on Terra." It seems no country has been left unscathed - NCLB on a global scale.