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  • EU concealed deal with US to allow ’rendition’ flights
    18 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Justin Stares in Brussels and Philip Sherwell in Washington (Filed: 11/12/2005)
    The European Union secretly allowed the United States to use transit facilities on European soil to transport "criminals" in 2003, according to a previously unpublished document. The revelation contradicts repeated EU denials that it knew of "rendition" flights by the CIA.
    The EU agreed to give America access to facilities - presumably airports - in confidential talks in Athens during which the war on (…)

  • 100,000 Irish Workers Take To The Streets
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It is estimated by the police that over 100,000 workers took to the streets of Dublin the Irish capital. While tens of thousand of workers brought the main cities and towns across the country to a complete stand still as they took to the street both in solidarity with the Irish Ferries workers and against the wide spread exploitation of migrant workers. Workers are outraged at the use of migrant workers particularly from Eastern Europe to undermine the wages and conditions of all workers. (…)

  • Spiegel satirist Broder re Iran Presid’s idea "Give the Jews Schleswig Holstein"
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Henryk M. Broder Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinedshad’s suggestion to move Israel to Germany is not as absurd as it sounds. If you consider the idea impartially, you can see a historic land reform concept which can be advantageous to all parties. Everyone is attacking the Iranian president again because he suggested moving Israel from the Middle East to Germany, or Austria. Even those who were not outraged about Mahmud Ahmadinedschad’s demand "to wipe Israel off the map" are (…)

  • Stick To A Good Lie
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    STICK TO A GOOD LIE
    By Peter Fredson
    December 10, 2005
    Condi Rice, Bush’s attack dog, the Black Angel of Death, has been high-stepping around Europe lately with the fancy shoes that she bought as Katrina killed many people. I’m surprised she doesn’t wear hip-height rubber boots to wade knee-deep in all the crap she is spreading on European leaders. But she finds time to lecture Syria and Iran and constantly threaten them because that was the neocons plan years ago. She also, following (…)

  • German Papers: Does Anyone Believe Condoleezza Rice?
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Der Spiegel
    US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have left Berlin, but her visit has left all sorts of bad tastes in the mouths of Germans. Nobody seems terribly convinced by her claim that America doesn’t torture. And what is "torture" anyway?
    US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have left Berlin, but her lightening visit on Tuesday is still splashed across the headlines on Wednesday. Nobody, of course, expected the issues raised by Rice’s visit to disappear as soon as (…)

  • RIGHTS: U.S. Flights Land Heavy on German Politics
    8 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Julio Godoy
    BERLIN, Dec 7 (IPS) - The U.S. military flights illegally transporting Muslim prisoners through Europe to secret detention camps are presenting a particular challenge for the German government.
    New reports indicate that the former coalition government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD, after its German name) and the Green party was informed of the illegal U.S. flights using German territory.
    Official documents both in Berlin and in Washington also show that the German (…)

  • The CIA’s Rendition Flights to Secret Prisons. The Torture-Go-Round
    8 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By LILA RAJIVA
    Dana Priest’s recent Washington Post article, "Anatomy of a CIA ’rendition’ gone wrong"(1) only confirms what those who have watched the torture scandal closely already know. Abu Ghraib was no anomaly but the most visible tip of a widespread but clandestine policy. Priest reveals details about a case in which the CIA used German, Macedonian, Albanian and Afghan authorities and European air space and terminals to "render" a German citizen snatched up abroad for interrogation (…)

  • EU hypocrisy on CIA secret prisons
    8 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By M. A. Saki
    Allegations of secret CIA flights in Europe and the establishment of secret prisons in some European countries have seriously dogged the European Union and have put its claims of being a defender of human rights under question.
    So far, the U.S. has neither dismissed nor confirmed the reports. In Washington on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to answer the question of whether the United States has established CIA-operated secret prisons, but added (…)

  • Rice signs US-Romania bases deal
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed a deal allowing the US to use military bases in Romania.
    It is the first such deal to be signed with a former communist country in eastern Europe.
    Ms Rice arrived in Romania from Germany, on the second leg of a European tour overshadowed by a controversy about CIA operations.
    She stressed that the US does not carry out or condone torture, but did not comment on alleged secret CIA prisons.
    She has defended the CIA practice of (…)

  • Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake German Citizen Released After Months in ’Rendition’
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dana Priest
    In May 2004, the White House dispatched the U.S. ambassador in Germany to pay an unusual visit to that country’s interior minister. Ambassador Daniel R. Coats carried instructions from the State Department transmitted via the CIA’s Berlin station because they were too sensitive and highly classified for regular diplomatic channels, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation.
    Coats informed the German minister that the CIA had wrongfully imprisoned one (…)