Maher Arar
The Christian Science Monitor's daily blog has an outstanding roundup of the Maher Arar case:
A Changed World: Daily Update | csmonitor.com. They don't archive the page, so tomorrow this link will be broken. I put a
mirror here.
One of the links goes to this soul-crushing article on torture:
Blumner: In the name of war on terror, Bush administration allows tortureUnder a practice known as "extraordinary rendition," the CIA is delivering terror suspects into the hands of foreign intelligence services without extradition proceedings. According to the Post, the authority to do this comes from a secret "finding" by the president.
Suspects have been sent to Syria, Morocco, Egypt and Jordan, countries whose abusive practices have been documented and condemned by the State Department's annual human rights report. "We don't kick the s--- out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the s--- out of them," an unnamed official who had participated in the rendering of prisoners told the Post. Along with the prisoner, the CIA provides the foreign intelligence services a list of questions it wants answered.
Speaking of getting the boot, The Chicago Tribune has a series of articles on Muslims getting kicked out:
Tossed Out of America.
* Ray, 11/21/2003 02:08:42 PM
