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Extraordinary Rendition
"The film 'Extraordinary Rendition' explores the truth about CIA rendition and secret detention and sets out to explain not only the extent of US involvement in torture, but also why this program was carried out. It also reveals how rendition continues."
Tags: Egypt; India; CIA; torture; black sites; rendition; Poland; Bisher al Rawi; interrogation
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Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program
Author Stephen Grey investigates the "CIA covert rendition program," whish is the transfer of suspected terrorists into foreign custody. He discusses the program's history, how it operates and the North Carolina airline involved. He and others were able to look into the treatment of terror suspects, and through interview Grey found out the interviewees' belief that many prisoners might be tortured as a result of the program.
Tags: CIA; terror suspects; Sept. 11. 2001; Air America; CIA covert rendition program; Bush Administration
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The CIA's Torture Taxi
The reporters investigated the issue of rendition, the CIA's practice of transporting terrorism subjects to countries where they could be tortured out of the U.S. public's eye.
Tags: torture; war on terrorism; CIA; rendition; transportation of terror suspects
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Rendition
The story investigates the CIA's practice of "rendition", the abducting of terrorism suspects in foreign countries and transporting them to countries where they can be interrogated, which sometimes includes torture. The investigation uncovered secret flights by CIA aircraft, the rendition of a suspect from Sweden to Egypt, and the transport of others to Uzbekistan. The report includes an interview with a German citizen who had allegedly been rendered by mistake.
Tags: terrorism; rendition; CIA; war on terrorism; Egypt; Uzbekistan; abduction; counter-terrorism; Sweden
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The Broken Promise
TV-4 investigated the use of the N379P airplane and found that it is used to carry suspected terrorists to Syria, Jordan, Morocco, Egypt, etc, where they are brutally interrogated. They also uncovered that Sweden has secretly been part of the "extraordinary rendition" operation, which tortures and interrogates "suspects" even though some are eventually freed and cleared of all charges.
Tags: FOIA; The Government of Sweden; Swedish Security Police; Ahmed Agiza; Muhammed Al Zery; United States Department of Defense