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The world is a
dangerous place,
not because of
those who do evil,
but because of
those who look on
and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
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IRAQ VETERANS
AGAINST
THE WAR
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Presidential Scholors
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LISTEN TO THESE YOUNG PEOPLE
SPEAK OUT ON TORTURE BY THE US
A group of High School
Presidential Scholors
Speak up about rendition, torture, and human rights
A recording from Democracy Now on June 2 2007
Listen to them tell how they give George Bush a letter
That denounces torture and signing statements
These kids are on the front lines - I salute them
DemocracyNow original long version
"Front Line Citizens"
Put Your Foot Down
And Demand With Your
Voice
And Your With Your Pens That
"Truth & Justice
Will Prevail"
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TAKING ON THE US RENDITION TORTURE PROGRAM
Khaled El-Masri speaks to reporters with ACLU attorney Steven
Watt
“I have come to America seeking three things. An acknowledgement that the United States government
is responsible for kidnapping, abusing and detaining me; an explanation as to why I was singled out for this treatment; and
an apology because I am an innocent man who has never been charged with any crime.”
-- Khaled El-Masri, a
victim of extraordinary rendition |
After a harrowing ordeal at the hands of the CIA, and later attempts by the
government to block his entry into the U.S., ACLU client Khaled
El-Masri got his day in court this week. El-Masri and ACLU attorneys were in Virginia to argue
before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in our lawsuit challenging the Bush administration’s use of “extraordinary
rendition,” abduction, detention and interrogation in secret overseas prisons.
El-Masri was on vacation
in Macedonia when he was kidnapped, abused and rendered to a CIA-run “black site” in Afghanistan. After several
months of confinement in squalid conditions, he was flown from Afghanistan and abandoned on a hill in Albania with no explanation,
never having been charged with a crime.
The suit charges former CIA director George Tenet,
other CIA officials and U.S.-based aviation corporations with violations of United States and universal human rights laws.
A
federal district court dismissed El-Masri’s lawsuit earlier this year. In a legal maneuver that is now familiar, the
government is trying to use the veil of secrecy to avoid accountability for its actions. But yesterday, we argued on appeal
that the government's official recognition of the program and information already available about this case show that the
lawsuit does not jeopardize national security and must be allowed to continue.
“I have come to America seeking
three things,” said El-Masri. “An acknowledgement that the United States government is responsible for kidnapping,
abusing and detaining me; an explanation as to why I was singled out for this treatment; and an apology because I am an innocent
man who has never been charged with any crime.”
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