RawStory: Times to EXPOSE CIA RENDITION Case on Friday!

[Roland99]

http://www.rawstory.com/

Times to expose CIA rendition case Friday... Developing...


Can't wait to hear the rwingnuts now!

[bluerum]

1. traitors!

Sorry - couldn't resist.

Can't wait to hear shrubCo. go off about it.

[napi21]

2. I assume it's the NYT and not the mag. Doesn't look like they're very

intimidated by Shrub's complaints about them huh?

[Roland99]

8. **Full Story: NYT Friday: An Algerian's dark odyssey through US rendition

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/NYT_Friday_An_Algerians_dark_odyssey_0706.html

The case of Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen who was held as part of the United States' anti-terrorism rendition program, was revealed last year, and German and U.S. officials have acknowledged that he was erroneously detained by the United States. But the tale of the other, an Algerian named Laid Saidi, has never been told before, and it carries a new set of allegations against America's secret detention program, the NEW YORK TIMES reports Friday. Excerpts:
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In a recent interview, Saidi, 43, said that after he was expelled he was handed over to American agents and flown to Afghanistan, where he was held for 16 months before being delivered to Algeria and freed without ever being charged or told why he was imprisoned. He acknowledged that he was carrying a fake passport when he was detained, but he said he had no connection to terrorism.

In his lawyer's office in Algiers, he held up two white shoes he said his captors gave him before setting him free in August 2004. The only other physical evidence he offered of his imprisonment were fading scars on his wrists that he said were from having been chained to the ceiling of a cell for five days.

While Saidi's allegations of torture cannot be corroborated, other elements of his story can be.

[Skink]

3. don't they usually sit on information till after elections?

:shrug:

[Tesha]

16. Maybe they're another corporation that's tired of the crappy business...

Maybe they're yet-another corporation that's tired of the crappy
business climate that Shrub has continued to deliver?

Tesha

[joemurphy]

4. Uh-oh, that NYT is at it again, undermining national security

by exposing those secret torture sites in Poland and Romania that we reserve for Al-Qaeda, Taliban, and Disciples of Christ, Vegetarians, Sikhs, and their fellow lapdogs. We need to put a stop to these leaks! Once again, our Terrahist-loving press is undermining our successes in the War on Terrah!

[Roland99]

7. They're going to let bin Laden get away!!!!

Oh wait....

[originalpckelly]

5. Revealing torture helps the enemy.

The Times should be taken out back and shot. They just want Americans to die so they can report on it and win a Pulitzer.:sarcasm:

[joemurphy]

6. Yer right, there's things that people just shouldn't know about

-- like everything the executive branch does. It's helping the enemy!
Loose lips sinks ships! Press errors help the Terrors!

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. This is what happens when you piss off a newspaper?

Maybe the NYT has decided to do its freakin' job?

[Roland99]

10. I've actually been entertaining thoughts of subscribing again.

[Vidar]

11. Good to hear the NYT is finally fighting back.

[Roland99]

12. *** FULL NEW YORK TIMES STORY ***

Algerian Tells of Dark Odyssey in U.S. Hands
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/world/africa/07algeria.html?hp&ex=1152244800&en=ac8e2d0a9986852b&ei=5094&partner=homepage

ALGIERS — Two years ago, a motley collection of prisoners spent night after night repeating their telephone numbers to one another from within the dark and dirty cells where they were being held in Afghanistan. Anyone who got out, they said they agreed, would use the numbers to contact the families of the others to let them know that they were still alive.

...

The case of one of them, Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen who was held as part of the United States' antiterrorism rendition program, was revealed last year, and German and American officials have acknowledged that he was erroneously detained by the United States. But the tale of the other, an Algerian named Laid Saidi, has never been told before, and it carries a new set of allegations against America's secret detention program.

In May 2003, Mr. Saidi was expelled from Tanzania, where he ran a branch of Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, an international charity based in Saudi Arabia that promoted the fundamentalist Wahhabi strain of Islam and has since been shut down after being accused of financing terrorist groups. Tanzanian newspapers reported on Mr. Saidi's expulsion at the time, but nothing was known about where he went.

In a recent interview, Mr. Saidi, 43, said that after he was expelled he was handed over to American agents and flown to Afghanistan, where he was held for 16 months before being delivered to Algeria and freed without ever being charged or told why he had been imprisoned. He acknowledged that he was carrying a fake passport when he was detained, but he said he had no connection to terrorism.

[Roland99]

13. Just finished the whole article. Wow. 16mos. for a MISTRANSLATED WORD!

[Roland99]

14. Kick for the day-walkers

:)

[annabanana]

15. The B*sh junta is going to learn that

it's ha-a-a-ard work maintaining the conditions necessary for an imperialist, warmongering empire in todays well wired world.

Information is faster than a speeding bullet.

[Roland99]

17. Over-eager/over-zealous imperialistic ideals led to the failure of empires

before us.

[annabanana]

18. yeah.. but the time frame

has contracted radically.. So the regimes will be fast to start up, and must be fast to fall (I hope)

[Roland99]

19. This fall is gonna hurt. The massive bleeding of taxpayer funds to the DoD

cannot be maintained.