| Tue Feb. 5, 2013 3:01 PM PST
On Tuesday, the Open Society Justice Initiative released a 212-page report that details international assistance to US covert action related to controversial Bush-era anti-terror policy. The report (PDF), titled "Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition," identifies 136 people who were captured or transferred by the Central Intelligence Agency, and lists available information about the detainees—both the Islamist operatives and the completely innocent.
"Globalizing Torture" also provides an annotated list of the dozens of foreign governments that played roles in the CIA's secret program in the years following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. These governments provided crucial support in facilitating the CIA and Bush administration's war on Al Qaeda by, according to the report:
[H]osting CIA prisons on their territories; detaining, interrogating, torturing, and abusing individuals; assisting in the capture and transport of detainees; permitting the use of domestic airspace and airports for secret flights transporting detainees; providing intelligence leading to the secret detention and extraordinary rendition of individuals; and interrogating individuals who were secretly being held in the custody of other governments. Foreign governments also failed to protect detainees from secret detention and extraordinary rendition on their territories and to conduct effective investigations into agencies and officials who participated in these operations.
Here are the 54 listed, in alphabetical order:
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belgium
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Canada
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- The Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hong Kong
- Iceland
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Ireland
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Macedonia
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Syria
- Thailand
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- Uzbekistan
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
- http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/globalizing-torture-cia-secret-detention-and-extraordinary-rendition
Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition
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Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency embarked on a highly classified program of secret detention and extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects. The program was designed to place detainee interrogations beyond the reach of law. Suspected terrorists were seized and secretly flown across national borders to be interrogated by foreign governments that used torture, or by the CIA itself in clandestine “black sites” using torture techniques.
Globalizing Torture is the most comprehensive account yet assembled of the human rights abuses associated with CIA secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations. It details for the first time what was done to the 136 known victims, and lists the 54 foreign governments that participated in these operations. It shows that responsibility for the abuses lies not only with the United States but with dozens of foreign governments that were complicit.
More than 10 years after the 2001 attacks, Globalizing Torture makes it unequivocally clear that the time has come for the United States and its partners to definitively repudiate these illegal practices and secure accountability for the associated human rights abuses.
