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Lost US extraordinary rendition files have ‘dried out’, Foreign Office says
Lost US extraordinary rendition files have ‘dried out’, Foreign Office says
‘Flight records for an island used by the US for transferring terror suspects have ”dried out”, the UK Government said, days after it was revealed logs were ruined by water damage.
The Foreign Office was accused of a cover-up after ministers admitted there were ”limited records” of flights landing and taking off on Diego Garcia in 2002, adding they understood they were ”incomplete due to water damage”.
The US has previously admitted using Diego Garcia, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BOOT), twice in 2002 for flights as part of its extraordinary rendition programme for terror suspects.’
The Privatization of Repression – Blackwater’s Death Machine
The Privatization of Repression – Blackwater’s Death Machine
‘Obama is excellent at multitasking in navigating the waters of international politics, seeking to construct a political-structural framework of American global hegemony, formally (for who knows the full extent of the forces standing behind him?) presiding over a Juggernaut of irresponsible power in which the US seemingly thwarted in one theater of operations then springs up in another.
Obama the jumping jack, but with malice aforethought, ever moving forward through intervention, carefully-delineated war (at least that is the claim), regime change, drone assassination, CIA-JSOC joint-paramilitary operations, alliance systems to rationalize the internationalization of American power (as with NATO and “friends and allies”) often bilaterally arranged, affording joint-exercises and lucrative arms sales, and not least, the subject of this article, the use of PRIVATE ARMIES, which have an increasingly important role as occupation forces and for guarding US interests, facilities, and personnel worldwide.’
Files on UK role in CIA rendition accidentally destroyed, says minister
Files on UK role in CIA rendition accidentally destroyed, says minister
‘The British government’s problems with missing files deepened dramatically when the Foreign Office claimed documents on the UK’s role in the CIA’s global abduction operation had been destroyed accidentally when they became soaked with water.
In a statement that human rights groups said “smacked of a cover-up”, the department maintained that records of post-9/11 flights in and out of Diego Garcia, the British territory in the Indian Ocean, were “incomplete due to water damage”.
The claim comes amid media reports in the US that a Senate report due to be published later this year identifies Diego Garcia as a location where the CIA established a secret prison as part of its extraordinary rendition programme. According to one report, classified CIA documents state that the prison was established with the “full cooperation” of the UK government.’