1. I should like to think that a full public inquiry into "extraordinary renditions" will take place. However, this is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. In 2001 former US Marines Colonel Vine and Lt Harry Bird were pushing for my kidnapping and "rendition" from the UK. 'Paul Winston' whom I believe to be a Metropolitan Police Special Branch officer got them to promise that they would not do so.
This occurred in the spring of 2001 at the Kensington High Street easyEverything Inernet shop. I saw these participants walk in front of me and heard their arguing courtesy of the surveillance technology they were using. Colonel Vine was arguing that an earlier kidnapping from the Royal Festival Hall after a concert had not caused a ripple. Despite this he was refused permission to kidnap me although I was tracked and threatened in every way possible before and after this. It all goes on as of this writing. Because of this treatment I was able to anticipate some of the techniques which have emerged from Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere.
The problem of the UK government tolerating torture and its evidence reflected by the rendition flights is not limited to them. The UK government is allowing and supporting the use of the most advanced surveillance technology in London for the purpose of torture interrogation as part of an R&D programme including medical experimentation. This has been used aganist me 24/7 since February 2001 some seven months prior to 9/11 starting just after Bush was inaugurated. The procedures being carried out against me are described as indefinite and that I will die before they are halted unless, of course, I confess to a crime or crimes which have never occurred.
The British government has a great deal to hide. It's easy to see why there has been total obstruction from the British government for as much delay as possible. I would hope that this inquiry takes place and opens the door to all that has been going on here in the UK with respect to torture interrogation and the acceptance or recognition of its evidence.
The Guardian Wednesday, 29th November 2006
MPs call for inquiry into government's role in CIA flights
By Hélène Mulholland
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 Michael Moore, the Liberal Democrats' foreign affairs spokesman, pictured in March this year. Photograph: Martin Argles. |
Opposition parties today called for a full public inquiry into "extraordinary rendition" following a scathing EU report that accused the British government of obstructing investigations into the controversial flights.
The Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National party jointly attacked the government for its "complicity" with the US government over the practice, whereby secret CIA flights transferred detainees to locations where they risked being tortured.
The Lib Dems' foreign affairs spokesman, Michael Moore, said: "It is damning to learn that the Foreign Office believes using information extracted under torture is not banned under international law, particularly when the House of Lords has ruled otherwise.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,1959931,00.html
Washington Post Foreign Service, Wednesday, 29th November 2006; Page A14
European Report Details Flights By CIA Aircraft
Polish, Romanian Facilities Cited
By Craig Whitlock
Brussels, Nov. 28 -- Most days, the skies are quiet over the Szymany airport, a mothballed runway in rural Poland. So the airport director took note when strangers showed up on at least six occasions in 2002 and 2003, offering to pay large sums of cash to land planes from faraway places such as Afghanistan.
When the chartered civilian planes arrived, they followed the same secretive drill, Mariola Przewlocka, former director of the airport, told investigators from the European Parliament last week. To avoid prying eyes, she said, the aircraft would sit at the end of the runway and wait for unmarked minivans to arrive. In the dark, it was hard to tell whether people got on or off. But in at least one case, a flight took off with several passengers for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, records show.
CIA's Secret Prisons
Washington Post reporter Dana Priest reported on Nov. 2 that the CIA operates a network of secret prisons where it holds terror suspects. Priest was awarded a Pulitzer Prize on April 17 for her beat reporting on the CIA and the War on Terror
.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801443.html