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US "Floating Prisons"
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CAIRO — The Bush administration has used its war ships as "floating prisons" to capture, interrogate and render terror suspects, according to a British human rights organization.
"They choose ships to try to keep their misconduct as far as possible from the prying eyes of the media and lawyers," Clive Stafford Smith, legal director of Reprieve, told the Guardian on Monday, June 2.
"We will eventually reunite these ghost prisoners with their legal rights."
According to a research carried out by Reprieve, the US has used as many as 17 war ships as "floating prisons" to interrogate and render terror suspects since 2001.
"One of my fellow prisoners in Guantanamo was at sea on an American ship with about 50 others before coming to Guant?namo," one released Guantanamo prisoner told Reprieve.
"He was in the cage next to me. He told me that there were about 50 other people on the ship. They were all closed off in the bottom of the ship.
"The prisoner commented to me that it was like something you see on TV. The people held on the ship were beaten even more severely than in Guantanamo."
Reprieve cited the maritime security operations by the USS Ashland off Somalia in early 2007.
At this time, many people were abducted by Somali, Kenyan and Ethiopian forces in a systematic operation involving regular interrogations by individuals believed to be members of the FBI and CIA.
The rights group said that prisoners were interrogated aboard the USS Ashland and other ships in the Gulf of Aden during this time.
US navy spokesman Commander Jeffrey Gordon denied using ships to detain terror suspects.
He, however, said that some individual had been put on ships "for a few days" during what he called the initial days of detention.
Accomplice
The rights group said ships believed to have been involved include the USS Bataan and USS Peleliu.
It added that 15 other ships are suspected of having operated around the British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, which has been used as a military base by Britain and the US.
The revelation sparked calls for the US and Britain to come clean about the rendition of terror suspects.
"If the Bush administration is using British territories to aid and abet illegal state abduction, it would amount to a huge breach of trust with the British government," said Edward Davey, the Liberal Democrat's foreign affairs spokesman.
"Ministers must make absolutely clear that they would not support such illegal activity, either directly or indirectly."
Since January 2003, London has repeatedly denied that its territories were never used by the CIA to move terror suspects to secret prisons in countries notorious for using torture.
But British newspapers have recently revealed that the renditions are not confined to the Indian Ocean island.
The Mail on Sunday reported in June that a plane owned by an infamous American security corporation landed at the Royal Air Force station of Mildenhall in the county of Suffolk in the same month.
It substantiated the report with a photo taken by spotters of the CASA-212 Aviocar plane as it prepared to land.
The British paper had further published pictures of three planes linked to the CIA rendition program at Scottish airports, suggesting that the UK was a regular stop for such flights.
"Little by little, the truth is coming out on extraordinary rendition," said Andrew Tyrie, the Conservative MP who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on rendition.
"The rest will come, in time.
"Better for governments to be candid now, rather than later," he said.
"Greater transparency will provide increased confidence that President Bush's departure from justice and the rule of law in the aftermath of September 11 is being reversed, and can help to win back the confidence of moderate Muslim communities, whose support is crucial in tackling dangerous extremism."
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Comments:
The king of terrorism, as the Indonesian Vice President once called the U.S., uses unprecedented methods and schemes to kidnap, detain, interrogate and torture Muslims on land and on the high seas!.
How can kings, presidents and heads of governments of Muslim countries claim any right of authority over and loyalty from their citizens? If the government of Egypt does not protect Egyptians from being hunted, kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured by a foreign country, how on earth can it expect respect and allegiance from Egyptians? The same goes for Saudi Arabia, Libya, Jordan, Pakistan, etc. Citizenship is a two way street.
Pakistan captures and hands over its own citizens to the U.S. to be imprisoned, interrogated and tortured!.Don't they see how the U.S., the English, the French and even the Israelis care about their citizens and offer them protection wherever they are? They care even about their remains after they are killed.
US "Floating Prisons"
IslamOnline.net & Newspapers
CAIRO — The Bush administration has used its war ships as "floating prisons" to capture, interrogate and render terror suspects, according to a British human rights organization.
"They choose ships to try to keep their misconduct as far as possible from the prying eyes of the media and lawyers," Clive Stafford Smith, legal director of Reprieve, told the Guardian on Monday, June 2.
"We will eventually reunite these ghost prisoners with their legal rights."
According to a research carried out by Reprieve, the US has used as many as 17 war ships as "floating prisons" to interrogate and render terror suspects since 2001.
"One of my fellow prisoners in Guantanamo was at sea on an American ship with about 50 others before coming to Guant?namo," one released Guantanamo prisoner told Reprieve.
"He was in the cage next to me. He told me that there were about 50 other people on the ship. They were all closed off in the bottom of the ship.
"The prisoner commented to me that it was like something you see on TV. The people held on the ship were beaten even more severely than in Guantanamo."
Reprieve cited the maritime security operations by the USS Ashland off Somalia in early 2007.
At this time, many people were abducted by Somali, Kenyan and Ethiopian forces in a systematic operation involving regular interrogations by individuals believed to be members of the FBI and CIA.
The rights group said that prisoners were interrogated aboard the USS Ashland and other ships in the Gulf of Aden during this time.
US navy spokesman Commander Jeffrey Gordon denied using ships to detain terror suspects.
He, however, said that some individual had been put on ships "for a few days" during what he called the initial days of detention.
Accomplice
The rights group said ships believed to have been involved include the USS Bataan and USS Peleliu.
It added that 15 other ships are suspected of having operated around the British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, which has been used as a military base by Britain and the US.
The revelation sparked calls for the US and Britain to come clean about the rendition of terror suspects.
"If the Bush administration is using British territories to aid and abet illegal state abduction, it would amount to a huge breach of trust with the British government," said Edward Davey, the Liberal Democrat's foreign affairs spokesman.
"Ministers must make absolutely clear that they would not support such illegal activity, either directly or indirectly."
Since January 2003, London has repeatedly denied that its territories were never used by the CIA to move terror suspects to secret prisons in countries notorious for using torture.
But British newspapers have recently revealed that the renditions are not confined to the Indian Ocean island.
The Mail on Sunday reported in June that a plane owned by an infamous American security corporation landed at the Royal Air Force station of Mildenhall in the county of Suffolk in the same month.
It substantiated the report with a photo taken by spotters of the CASA-212 Aviocar plane as it prepared to land.
The British paper had further published pictures of three planes linked to the CIA rendition program at Scottish airports, suggesting that the UK was a regular stop for such flights.
"Little by little, the truth is coming out on extraordinary rendition," said Andrew Tyrie, the Conservative MP who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on rendition.
"The rest will come, in time.
"Better for governments to be candid now, rather than later," he said.
"Greater transparency will provide increased confidence that President Bush's departure from justice and the rule of law in the aftermath of September 11 is being reversed, and can help to win back the confidence of moderate Muslim communities, whose support is crucial in tackling dangerous extremism."
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Comments:
The king of terrorism, as the Indonesian Vice President once called the U.S., uses unprecedented methods and schemes to kidnap, detain, interrogate and torture Muslims on land and on the high seas!.
How can kings, presidents and heads of governments of Muslim countries claim any right of authority over and loyalty from their citizens? If the government of Egypt does not protect Egyptians from being hunted, kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured by a foreign country, how on earth can it expect respect and allegiance from Egyptians? The same goes for Saudi Arabia, Libya, Jordan, Pakistan, etc. Citizenship is a two way street.
Pakistan captures and hands over its own citizens to the U.S. to be imprisoned, interrogated and tortured!.Don't they see how the U.S., the English, the French and even the Israelis care about their citizens and offer them protection wherever they are? They care even about their remains after they are killed.
