Last stop: Tel Aviv (rendition flights to Israel & Jordan)

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From Ha'aretz:

A coincidental meeting at the Kishon prison, near Haifa, between a Jordanian-Pakistani detainee and an Israeli lawyer has shed new light on the intelligence cooperation between Israel and Jordan and these countries' special relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency and America's war on global terrorism.

This could also turn out to be the first case of the United States handing Israel a world jihad suspect who is not linked to Palestinian terror or Hezbollah. Hundreds of similar cases - of suspects being transferred between countries - have been publicized over the last few years. However, this is the first time such a case has come to light in Israel.

"A few detainees were brought into the hall," said attorney Nizar Mahajna, who is from Umm al-Fahm. "And one of them told me, 'I'm not of them'" - meaning he was not a Palestinian from the West Bank or Gaza - "and asked, 'Do you have time for me?' I told him yes. He seemed very frightened."

That day, September 22, Mahajna spent several minutes listening to the surprising story of Marwan Ibrahim Ali Jabur, and then had him sign a statement whose details are being publicized here for the first time.

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  Read the whole article here.

  It's an interesting article on rendition, detention and America's relationship with "torture subcontractors".

PB