Sunday, December 2, 2007

Jordan's CIA Way Station

It's called the General Intelligence Department , and they handle Bush's illegal renditions for him (torture included).

No need for highlighting, otherwise the whole article would be in red!


"Non-Jordanian suspects sent by CIA to Amman spy center" by Craig Whitlock/Washington Post December 2, 2007

AMMAN, Jordan - Over the past seven years, an imposing building on the outskirts of this city has served as a secret holding cell for the CIA.

The building is the headquarters of the General Intelligence Department, Jordan's powerful spy and security agency. Since 2000, at the CIA's behest, at least 12 non-Jordanian terrorism suspects have been detained and interrogated in Amman, according to documents and former prisoners, human rights advocates, defense lawyers, and former US officials.

In most of the cases, the spy center served as a covert way station for CIA prisoners captured in other countries. It was a place where they could be hidden after being arrested and kept for a few days or several months before being moved on to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or CIA prisons elsewhere in the world.

Others were arrested while transiting through Jordan, including two detained during stopovers at Amman's international airport. Another prisoner, a microbiology student captured in Pakistan in the weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has not been seen since he was flown to Amman on a CIA plane six years ago.

The most recent case to come to light involved a Palestinian detainee, Marwan al-Jabour, who was transferred to Jordan last year from a CIA-run secret prison and released several weeks later in Gaza. The General Intelligence Department, or GID, is perhaps the CIA's most trusted partner in the Arab world. The Jordanian agency has received money, training, and equipment from the CIA for decades and even has a public English-language website.

The relationship has deepened in recent years, with US officials praising their Jordanian counterparts for the depth of their knowledge regarding Al Qaeda and other radical Islamic networks.

In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, however, the GID was attractive for another reason, according to former US counterterrorism officials and Jordanian human rights advocates. Its interrogators had a reputation for persuading tight-lipped suspects to talk, even if that meant using abusive tactics that could violate US or international law.

"I was kidnapped, not knowing anything of my fate, with continuous torture and interrogation for the whole of two years," recounted Al-Haj Abdu Ali Sharqawi, a Guantanamo prisoner from Yemen, in a written account of his experiences in Jordanian custody. "When I told them the truth, I was tortured and beaten."

Sharqawi was captured in Karachi, Pakistan, in February 2002 in a joint Pakistani-US operation. Although the Guantanamo Bay prison had just opened, the CIA flew him instead to Amman, where he was imprisoned for 19 months, according to his account and flight records. He was later taken to another CIA-run secret prison, his statement says, before he was finally moved to Guantanamo in February 2004.

Sharqawi said he was threatened with sexual abuse and electrocution while in Jordan. He also said he was hidden from officials of the International Committee for the Red Cross during their visits to inspect Jordanian prisons.

Not even Hitler barred the Red Cross!!!

YOU PROUD to be WORSE than the NAZIS, Amurkns?

And I win either way!

If you believe in the Holocaust, then AmeriKa is condemnable and damnable!

If not, well, then we are right about the falsity of the Zionists claims!

So, FUCK OFF, ISRAEL!!!!!!


"I was told that if I wanted to leave with permanent disability both mental and physical, that that could be arranged," he said in his April 2006 statement, which was released by a London-based attorney, Clive Stafford Smith, who represents Guantanamo inmates. "They said they had all the facilities of Jordan to achieve that. I was told that I had to talk, I had to tell them everything."

Administration officials have said they do not hand over terrorism suspects to countries likely to abuse them. For several years, however, the State Department has cited allegations of torture by Jordan's security agencies in its annual report cards on rights."

Stunning in the straightforward presentation of such depravity and lies, isn't it, reader?

How come the world doesn't stop this atrocious conduct on the part of AmeriKa.

This is the stuff of WAR CRIMES!!!!!