Extraordinary rendition/external articles 2005

The following are external articles related to extraordinary rendition for 2005.

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• 2002-2004
• 2006

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February 2005

• Jane Mayer, "Outsourcing Torture. The secret history of America's 'extraordinary rendition' program," The New Yorker, February 7, 2005 (posted); February 14, 2005.
• "More on outsourcing torture," No Right Turn, February 10, 2005.
• Georg Mascolo and Holger Stark, "The US Stands Accused of Kidnapping," Der Spiegel (about.com), February 14, 2005.
• Andrew Cohen, "Extraordinary Rendition," CBS News, February 18, 2005.
• "U.S.-Held Prisoners Transferred Abroad Subjected to Torture." Michael Ratner interviewed by Scott Harris, ZMag, February 22, 2005.
• Ari Berman, "Shipped in Secret," The Nation, February 23, 2005.
• Charles Colson, "Outsourcing Evil. Torture and the Two Cities," Prison Fellowship Ministries, February 24, 2005.
• Jim Lobe, "Student in 'Rendition' Case Returns to US for Trial," AntiWar.com, February 25, 2005.
• Michael Hirsh, Mark Hosenball and John Barry, "Aboard Air CIA," Newsweek, February 28, 2005.
• Bob Herbert, "It's Called Torture," New York Times (Common Dreams), February 28, 2005.

March 2005

• Douglas Jehl and David Johnston, "Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails," New York Times, March 6, 2005; also posted by TruthOut.
• Scott Pelley, "CIA Flying Suspects To Torture?" CBS News, March 6, 2005.
• Doug Ireland, "N.Y. Times Has Really Bad Day On Torture, The Constitution, & Pentagon Mendacity," Common Dreams, March 6, 2005.
• "Bush backs policy on terror suspects," Reuters (Boston Globe), March 7, 2005.
• Ari Berman, "National Sec-recy," The Nation, March 8, 2005.
• Elaine Cassel, "Rendition & Tortured Confessions. The Appalling Case of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali," Counter Punch, March 8, 2005.
• Editorial: "Torture by Proxy," New York Times, March 8, 2005.
• Shaun Waterman, "Analysis: Rendition A Routine Practice" and "Ex-Cia Lawyer Calls For Law On Rendition," UPI (spacewar.com), March 9, 2005.
• Michael Scheuer, "A Fine Rendition," New York Times, March 11, 2005.
• "Rendition Comes Out of the Closet," Talk Left, March 11, 2005.
• "Rendering Al Qaeda. So how is the CIA supposed to squeeze terrorists?" Opinion Journal, March 11, 2005.
• William Fisher, "Rendition, or Outsourcing Torture?" AntiWar.com, March 12, 2005.
• Jim Lobe, "Rendition, or Outsourcing Torture?" AntiWar.com, March 12, 2005.
• Christy Harvey, Judd Legum and Jonathan Baskin, "Extraordinarily Irresponsible," Progress Report, March 15, 2005.
• Dana Priest, "CIA's Assurances On Transferred Suspects Doubted. Prisoners Say Countries Break No-Torture Pledges," Washington Post, March 17, 2005.
• Kevin Zeese, "The Outsourcing of Torture," Democracy Rising, March 24, 2005.
• Megan K. Stack, "Case Allegedly Shows US Practice of Secret Arrests," Los Angeles Times (TruthOut), March 30, 2005.

April 2005

• Stephen Grey, "United States: trade in torture," Le Monde diplomatique, April 2005.
• James Mawson, "Expendable or Vital in the 'War on Terror'?" Muslim Uzbekistan.com, April 4, 2005.
• Jeffrey St. Clair, "The Road to Rendition. Torture Air, Incorporated," Counter Punch, April 9/10, 2005.
• Daniel Byman, "Reject the Abuses, Retain the Tactic," Washington Post, April 17, 2005; also posted by Brookings Institution.
• Lisa Myers, Aram Roston and NBC Investigative Unit, "CIA accused of detaining innocent man. If the agency knew he was the wrong man, why was he held?" NBC News, April 21, 2005.
• Susan B. Glasser, "U.S. Figures Show Sharp Global Rise In Terrorism. State Dept. Will Not Put Data in Report," Washington Post, April 27, 2005.

May 2005

• Don Van Atta, Jr., "Growing evidence U.S. sending prisoners to torture capital. Despite bad record on human rights, Uzbekistan is ally," New York Times (San Francisco Chronicle), May 1, 2005.
• Helen Thomas, "'Ghost detainees' should haunt CIA," Hearst Newspapers (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), May 5, 2005.
• Reuel Marc Gerecht, "Against Rendition. Why the CIA shouldn't outsource interrogations to countries that torture," The Weekly Standard, May 16, 2005; also posted May 9, 2005, by American Enterprise Institute.
• Danielle Knight, "Outsourcing a real nasty job. Shipping terrorism suspects overseas for some tough questioning may make sense. But is it legal?" US News & World Report, May 23, 2005.
• Alan Cowell, "Amnesty accuses U.S. of 'atrocious' violations," New York Times (International Herald Tribune), May 27, 2005.
• Reuel Marc Gerecht, "What's the Matter with Gitmo?" American Enterprise Institute, May 27, 2005; posted in The Weekly Standard, July 4/11, 2005 (issue).

June 2005

• "Pre 9/11 Renditions," Human Rights Watch, June 2005.
• Dr. Liaquat Ali Khan, "Friendly Renditions to Muslim Torture Chambers," Baltimore Chronicle, June 7, 2005.
• Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, "More Questions on Missing Imam. If the CIA did abduct Abu Omar in Italy, the timing suggests his rendition was connected to the upcoming war in Iraq," Newsweek (MSNBC), June 29, 2005.
• Tim Naftali, "Milan Snatch. Extraordinary rendition comes back to bite the Bush administration," Slate, June 30, 2005.

August 2005

• "Exclusive: Secret Memo—Send to Be Tortured," Newsweek (MSNBC), August 8, 2005.
• Laura Rozen, "Italy Revolts Against Rendition," The American Prospect (CBS News/Associated Press), August 9, 2005.

November 2005

• Giles Tremlett, "Spanish police expose more CIA links to secret flights of detainees. 42 operatives traced going through Palma airport. Names unearthed match Italian and German inquiries," Guardian (UK), November 15, 2005.
• "All about the 22 CIA agents' involvement in Abu Umar's 'Rendition'," Al Jazeera, November 16, 2005.

December 2005

• Anne Gearman, "Rice to Address CIA Prison Issue in Europe," Associated Press, December 5, 2005.
• "CIA Used Irish Airport," Prensa Latina, December 5, 2005.
• "Extraordinary Rendition Scandal Reaches New Heights: Rice on the Offensive in Europe Over Bush Administration's Use of 'Torture Flights'," Democracy Now!, December 5, 2005.
• Andrew Tyrie, "British Tory MP Blasts Extraordinary Rendition, Says Britain Broke International Law and 'Complicit in Torture' if Flights Passed Through UK," Democracy Now!, December 5, 2005.
• "CIA Flights Made 50 Landings at Ireland's Shannon, Amnesty Says," Bloomberg News, December 5, 2005.
• "Canada will investigate allegations of secret CIA flights," CBC News (Canada), December 5, 2005.
• "Debating Rendition Tactics," PBS Online NewsHour, December 5, 2005: "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Monday defended the CIA practice of snatching and transferring terror suspects overseas for questioning, a tactic also known as rendition."
• David Charter, "An innocent man's five months in CIA 'salt pit'," Times Online (UK), December 6, 2005.
• David Corn, "More on Rice and Torture/Waxman on Oversight (or the Lack Thereof)," DavidCorn.com, December 6, 2005.
• Suzanne Goldenberg and Luke Harding, "Detainee flights have saved European lives, says Rice," Guardian (UK), December 6, 2005.
• Chris Marsden, "Rice defends illegal 'renditions,' threatens to reveal European complicity," WSWS, December 6, 2005.
• Tom Regan, "Rendition not foolproof. Rice defends practice but records show serious mistakes have been made," Christian Science Monitor, December 6, 2005.
• Anne Penketh, "The questions Condoleezza must answer. You say the US does not permit torture under any circumstances. So why are you bending the torture rules?" Independent (UK), December 6, 2005.
• "Extraordinary and Unacceptable," Guardian (UK), December 6, 2005.
• Colin Brown, "MPs dismiss US denials as 'disingenuous' and 'beyond belief'," Independent (UK), December 6, 2005.
• Will Lester, "AP Poll: Most Say Torture OK in Rare Cases," Associated Press (Washington Post), December 6, 2005.
• Paul Tait, "America 'abusing' mandate in Iraq," Reuters (The Age (Australia)), December 6, 2005.
• Suzanne Goldenberg, "US defence of tactic makes no sense says legal expert," Guardian (UK), December 6, 2005.
• "Human rights group to sue CIA," Guardian (UK), December 6, 2005.
• Craig Whitlock, "CIA Ruse Is Said to Have Damaged Probe in Milan. Italy Allegedly Misled on Cleric's Abduction," Washington Post, December 6, 2005.
• Greg Sampson, "Bush denies US rendition for torture but Rice acknowledges 'mistakes'," Jurist, December 6, 2005.
• "Extraordinary Rendition Under Fire: Lawsuit Charges CIA with Kidnapping and Torture of German Citizen," Democracy Now!, December 7, 2005.
• Patrick Martin, "Bush, Rice defend US abductions, torture, secret prisons," WSWS, December 7, 2005.
• Lila Rajiva, "Flying the Friendly Skies. What Did European Agencies Know About the Torture Flights?" Dissident Voice, December 7, 2005.
• "Handling Terror Suspects," PBS Online NewsHour, December 7, 2005.
• Michael Jansen, Opinion: "Rendition and torture are no solution," Jordan Times, December 8, 2005.
• Editorial: "Conspiracy to Torture," The Nation, December 8, 2005 (posted); December 26, 2005 (issue).
• Anthony Lewis, "The Torture Administration," The Nation, December 8, 2005 (posted); December 26, 2005 (issue).
• Haroon Sidiqui, "Rice's tortured logic on torture," Toronto Star (Canada), December 8, 2005.
• Douglas Jehl, "Qaeda-Iraq Link U.S. Cited Is Tied to Coercion Claim," New York Times, December 9, 2005.
• "Disgusted," Fire Dog Lake, December 9, 2005.
• "Poland was main CIA European detention base: report," Reuters, December 9, 2005.
• "US defends prisoners' transfers," BBC, December 10, 2005: John Bellinger, "State department senior legal advisor ... has defended the country's treatment of terror suspects and the transfer of prisoners to third countries for interrogation ... told the BBC Washington sought reassurance in those countries that prisoners would not be tortured."
• "Poles to probe CIA prisons claim," BBC, December 10, 2005.
• Farah Stockman, "Firms get scrutiny over CIA captures. Companies' roles in flights questioned," Boston Globe, December 11, 2005.
• "European Parliament to Launch CIA Prisons Investigation," Deutsche Welle, December 15, 2005.
• "'Rendition' Not New to Europe, Powell Asserts," Washington Post, December 18, 2005.
• "Powell raps Europe on CIA flights," BBC, December 17, 2005: "Ex-US Secretary of State Colin Powell has indicated that Europeans are being disingenuous when they deny knowledge of the rendition of terror suspects."
• Dipesh Gadher, "MI5 'colluded with CIA' over suspect sent to torture jails," Times Online, December 18, 2005.
• "Powell: Europe chiefs feign shock," CNN Europe, December 19, 2005.