Sunday, July 29, 2007

Rendition

Article in the Observer on Bisher al-Rawi, a British resident who had worked with MI5 and was then kidnapped by US agents and taken to Guantanamo, where he spent 4 years.

In a remarkable interview for The Observer, British resident Bisher al-Rawi has told how he was betrayed by the security service despite having helped keep track of Abu Qatada, the Muslim cleric accused of being Osama bin Laden's 'ambassador in Europe'. He was abducted and stripped naked by US agents, clad in nappies, a tracksuit and shackles, blindfolded and forced to wear ear mufflers, then strapped to a stretcher on board a plane bound for a CIA 'black site' jail near Kabul in Afghanistan.

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