Extraordinary Rendition: Further Reading

This subject has been split into multiple articles due to the large amount of material

• Extraordinary Rendition: International investigations
• Extraordinary Rendition: National investigations
• Extraordinary Rendition: Investigations by non-state actors
• Torture by nations participating in extraordinary rendition
• Extraordinary Rendition: Further reading

Extraordinary rendition and irregular rendition describe the abduction and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one nation to another.

Wikipedia articles:

• Aero Contractors — one of several companies that are reported to provide air transport in extraordinary rendition cases.
• Wikipedia:Aircraft spotting
• Wikipedia:Alliance Base and CTIC (Counter-terrorism Information Centers, joint intelligence operations)
• Wikipedia:Arbitrary arrest and detention
• Wikipedia:At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA by George Tenet
• Wikipedia:Black site
• Wikipedia:Central Intelligence Agency
• Wikipedia:Special Activities Division
• Wikipedia:Command responsibility
• Wikipedia:Criticisms of the War on Terrorism
• Wikipedia:Enemy combatant or Wikipedia:Unlawful combatant
• Wikipedia:Erroneous rendition
• Wikipedia:Exfiltration
• Wikipedia:Extrajudicial detention
• Wikipedia:Extrajudicial punishment
• Extraordinary Rendition — an upcoming movie directed by Jim Threapleton, starring Omar Berdouni and Andy Serkis
• Wikipedia:Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
• Wikipedia:Forced disappearance
• Wikipedia:Jeppesen — a Boeing subsidiary that is reported to provide navigation and logistical support.
• Wikipedia:Luis Posada Carriles, an anti-Castrist Cuban wanted by Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of Cubana Flight 455, which the US has refused to extradite in 2006 to Venezuela, on claims that he was not sufficiently enough protected from risks of torture in this last state.
• Wikipedia:Main Core
• Wikipedia:Michael Scheuer
• Wikipedia:Mohamed et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc.
• Wikipedia:Rendition aircraft
• Rendition — a movie directed by Gavin Hood, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep
• Wikipedia:Tepper Aviation
• Wikipedia:Torture and the United States
• Wikipedia:Unitary Executive
• Wikipedia:War on terror

Anarchopedia

• Ghost detainee
• North Carolina Stop Torture Now!
• Wikipedia:Luis Posada Carriles, an anti-Castrist Cuban wanted by Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of Cubana Flight 455, which the US has refused to extradite in 2006 to Venezuela, on claims that he was not sufficiently enough protected from risks of torture in this last state.

External Links

2009

• Obama's Plans to Send 100 Yemeni Terrorists to Saudi Arabia

2008

• All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition
• Was Romanian base a CIA prisoner site? MSNBC February 23, 2008
• CIA confirms rendition flights to Brits MSNBC February 21, 2008
• CIA Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton and Charles Goyette interview Michael Scheuer, Antiwar.com April 17, 2008 (Note: minutes 20–27 of 41 minute audio)
• Clive Stafford Smith: US Holding 27,000 in Secret Overseas Prisons; Transporting Prisoners to Iraqi Jails to Avoid Media & Legal Scrutiny Democracy Now! May 19, 2008
• Spotlight: Mystery Flights Link TV 2 minute preview

2007

• "Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay" interview with Clive Stafford Smith Democracy Now! October 11, 2007
• Video of Press Conference for Smithfield, NC Anti War and Anti Torture Rally and Protest, Google, October 26, 2007
• Video of NC Stop Torture Now Walk of Remembrance Memorial at Aero Contractors in Smithfield, NC AntiWar and AntiTorture Protest, VideoLive, October 27, 2007
• Video of NC Stop Torture Now 8 Arrested in Civil Disobedience at Aero Contractors in Smithfield, NC, Google, April 9, 2007
• Extraordinary Rendition, a report broadcast on Channel 4's Dispatches, June 11, 2007
• Investigation into Extraordinary Rendition, broadcast on BBC 2's This World, May 24, 2007
• Video of protest at Aero Contractors, YouTube, March 18, 2007
• Soviet-era compound in northern Poland was site of secret CIA interrogation, detentions, Raw Story, March 7, 2007
• EU to vote on CIA flights report, BBC News Online, February 14, 2007
• CIA Rendition Flights, The Guardian, ongoing coverage
• Rendition: legal news and resources, JURIST
• Britain accused over CIA's secret torture flights, Stephen Grey and Andrew Buncombe, The Independent and Independent on Sunday, 10 February 2005 (mirror)
• Richard Clarke, Against all Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, Free Press, 2004, ISBN 0-7432-6024-4
• Rendition Not a New tactic. 1987–89
• An Open Letter to George Bush partly on this issue
• International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
• counter-terrorism-law.org
• A film report on allegations that Pakistan's security forces has secretly detained hundreds of people over the war on terror, More4 News
• Torture, Four Corners, ABC TV
• 'Ghost Prisoners, Four Corners, ABC TV
• Extraordinary Antics, al-Jazeera English June 12, 2007

2006

• Stop Rendition and Secret Detention!, Amnesty International
• Protest at US Embassy, London, against CIA 'torture flights', Liberty, 25 June
• Rendered Meaningless: The Rule of Law in the US 'War on Terror', JURIST, March 27, 2006
• Torture flights landed in UK, admit air controllers, Marie Woolf, The Independent, 19 February 2006
• House Committee Squashes Torture Queries, Associated Press, February 8, 2006
• A Torturing Topic, Pocono Record, February 18, 2006, discussing lecture by Matthew McNabb
• Report: U.S. 'Outsourced' Torture, Associated Press, January 24
• Rendition: the cover-up, New Statesman, January 23, 2006
• Ugly phrase conceals an uglier truth, Salman Rushdie, Sydney Morning Herald, January 10, 2006
• The Horrors of Extraordinary Rendition: A Personal Account, Maher Arar, CounterPunch, October 27 – 29 October 2006

2005

• Exporting Torture: US Rendition and European Outrage, JURIST, December 13, 2005
• The Real War on Terror - Kidnap and torture, American style, Dispatches, Channel 4, November 23, 2005
• Spanish police expose more CIA links to secret flights of detainees, The Guardian, November 15, 2005
• Torture flights: our role in US brutality shames Britain Sunday Herald, October 16, 2005
• Torture Flights: The Inside Story Neil Mackay, Sunday Herald, October 16, 2005
• Police to probe US ‘torture flights’ landing in Scotland, Neil Mackay, Sunday Herald, October 23, 2005
• Europeans eye CIA secret jails claim — What the Media won't tell Clayton Hallmark, Chiapas IMC, November 5, 2005
• Navy Secretly Contracted Jets Used by CIA, Boston Globe, September 24, 2005
• Rendition Cindy Sheehan? CIA Fugitive From Italy Justice Is Located
• 'One of them made cuts in my penis. I was in agony', Benyam Mohammed, The Guardian, August 2, 2005
• New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action: Probe Finds 'Rendition' Of Terror Suspects Illegal, Washington Post, May 21, 2005
• Flight to torture: where abuse is contracted out by Tim Reid, The Times, 26 March 2005
• Jet's Travels Cloaked in Mystery John Crewdson and Tom Hundley (Knight-Ridder), Common Dreams, March 20, 2005
• Torture by Proxy, Editorial Los Angeles Times, 11 March 2005
• CIA given free hand for 'rendition,' says official, Taipei Times, 8 March 2005
• CIA Flying Suspects To Torture?, CBS News, March 6, 2005
• It's Called Torture, Op-Ed by Bob Herbert, New York Times, February 28, 2005 (mirror)
• Hair used to verify Afghan abduction claim, Paktribune.com, February 4, 2005
• They beat me from all sides, The Guardian, January 14, 2005

2004

• Markey pledges battle on rendition practice, Boston Globe, November 30, 2004
• Memo Lets CIA Take Detainees Out of Iraq, Washington Post, October 24, 2004
• A Secret Deportation Of Terror Suspects, Washington Post, July 25, 2004
• Kalla fakta, 2004, The broken promise, TV4 (Sweden), May 17, 2004
• Stephen Grey, 2004, America's Gulag, New Statesman, May 17, 2004
• Secret World of U.S. Interrogation", Washington Post, May 11, 2004

2003

• Deported to Syria by U.S., Canadian tells tale of torture, Associated Press, November 5, 2003
• Deported Terror Suspect Details Torture in Syria, Washington Post, November 5, 2003
• Playing Offense: The inside story of how U.S. terrorist hunters are going after al Qaeda, US News & World Report, June 2, 2003
• Questioning Terror Suspects in a Dark and Surreal World, New York Times, March 9, 2003

2002

• U.S. Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations, Washington Post, December 26, 2002
• U.S. Behind Secret Transfer of Terror Suspects, Washington Post, March 11, 2002

2001

• Broad Effort Launched After '98 Attacks, Washington Post, December 19, 2001

Bibliography

• Grey, Stephen (2006). Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program. New York, New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-36023-1.
• Thompson, A. C., and Trevor Paglen (2006). Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights. Hoboken, New Jersey: Melville House. ISBN 1-933633-09-3.

Michael John Garcia, Legislative Attorney American Law Division. Renditions: Constraints Imposed by Laws on Torture April 5, 2006 p.2 link from the United States Counter-Terrorism Training and Resources for Law Enforcement web site