ACLU: Boeing offshoot helped CIA

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday it is suing Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing Co., claiming it provided secret CIA transportation services to shuttle three terrorism suspects overseas, where they were tortured.

The cases involve the alleged mistreatment of Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian citizen, in July 2002 and January 2004; Elkassim Britel, an Italian citizen, in May 2002; and Ahmed Agiza, an Egyptian citizen, in December 2001.

Mohamed is currently being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Britel in Morocco; and Agiza in Egypt, the ACLU said in a statement.

Details of the claims were to be released later Wednesday at a news conference.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070530/ap_on_re_us/boeing_cia_suit

[bahrbearian]

1. Hit them in their Wallets , thats how you get their attention.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Hell yes. Kick them in the money.

Is it fascim yet?

[IChing]

2. Rights group sues Boeing unit over CIA transfers

Source: Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union is suing a unit of Boeing Co., charging that it assisted the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in abducting suspect foreigners to overseas prisons where it says they were held and tortured.

The ACLU said it would file a lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan Inc. later on Wednesday, accusing the company of providing flight and logistical support to at least 15 aircraft on 70 so-called "rendition" flights.

The suit, to be filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, is being made on behalf of three people the ACLU said had been abducted by the CIA.

"American corporations should not be profiting from a CIA rendition program that is unlawful and contrary to core American values," Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, said in a statement. "Corporations that choose to participate in such activity can and should be held legally accountable."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN3020149420070530

[Synnical]

3. ACLU suit alleges firm is profiting from torture

The Boeing subsidiary is accused of helping facilitate mistreatment of terrorism suspects.
By Henry Weinstein, Times Staff Writer
May 31, 2007


The American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit Wednesday that accused a Boeing Co. subsidiary of helping the Central Intelligence Agency facilitate "the forced disappearance, torture and inhumane treatment" of three men the government suspected of terrorist involvement.

"This is the first time we are accusing a blue-chip American company of profiting from torture," ACLU lawyer Ben Wizner said at a news conference in New York City.

Since at least 2001, Jeppesen Dataplan Inc. of San Jose "has provided direct and substantial services to the United States for its so-called 'extraordinary rendition' program," the suit, filed in San Jose federal court, alleges.

. . .

"Corporations should expect to get sued where they are making blood money off the suffering of others," said Clive Stafford Smith, a British lawyer who has been representing Mohammed and is serving as co-counsel on the ACLU suit.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/scotus/la-me-rendition31may31,1,7533508.story?coll=la-news-politics-supreme_court

[Doctor_J]

5. Yes, it should be called the

Military-Industrial-Intelligence complex.

[donkeyotay]

6. The ACLU is saying that a corp shouldn't profit from torture

Will the CIA be held accountable for the policy of torture? Will the commander in chief and the Fredo Dept. of Injustice be held accountable? I'm a little confused. They're saying it's not ok to profit from torture, but the policy itself is okay? :shrug:

[struggle4progress]

7. Firm to be sued over 'torture flights' (Guardian)

Ian Cobain
Monday June 4, 2007
The Guardian

A former British resident being held at Guantánamo is suing a subsidiary of the Boeing corporation which he alleges was involved in arranging for him to be taken to secret American prisons around the world. Once there, he says, he was tortured.

Lawyers for Benyam Mohammed, an Ethiopian national who grew up in Notting Hill, west London, say Jeppesen Dataplan has been providing logistical support for the Central Intelligence Agency's so-called extraordinary rendition programme.

According to legal papers filed in San Jose, California, by the London-based legal charity Reprieve, "Jeppesen has played a critical role in the successful implementation of the extraordinary rendition programme" by providing support for flights to countries where the use of torture is routine.

"Among other services provided, Jeppesen prepared pre-departure flight planning services, including itinerary, route weather, and fuel plans" for rendition flights, as well as landing and overflight permits, and arranged for fuel to be provided. The papers allege that Jeppesen facilitated more than 70 rendition flights over four years, and knew, or should have known, that detainees were being tortured at their destinations. ~snip~

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,2094726,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront