A boeing 737 bbj with registrations n3p and n4476s. Another journalist, british stephen greys work was also crucial in the unravelling. Cia secret detention and extraordinary rendition see other formats. Jul 29, 2016 globalizing torture cia secret detention and extraordinary rendition, open society, 20 july 29, 2016 topics. Rendition aircraft wikimili, the free encyclopedia. Based on the known practices and protocols of the rdi program, it is justifiable to conclude that abdallah was subjected to walling, isolation, stress positions, extremes of temperature, sleep deprivation, and beatings.
I hereby submit this letter of endorsement for the report entitled. This page describes several aircraft that are alleged in media reports to have been used in the practice of extraordinary rendition, the extralegal transfer of prisoners from one country to another. Cias extraordinary rendition and detention program countries involved in the program, according to the 20 open society foundations report on tortures in military terminology, a black site is a location at which an unacknowledged black project is conducted. To ask the secretary of state for defence 1 on how many occasions since september 2001 usregistered aircraft tail number a n3p and b n44982, formerly n8068v and n379p, has landed at united kingdom military. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read extraordinary rendition. The cia neither confirms nor denies the existence or activities of the.
Get your copy of extraordinary rendition now, and grieve with kane while he exacts revenge as only he can. While the book is targeted for middle grade readers, i enjoyed it thoroughly as a teenager and thought it was a beautifully written tale. Libya rendition case has put britain in the dock over. Extraordinary rendition the coverup continues craig. Macedonia called to account over extraordinary rendition case this article is more than 9 years old european human rights court tells macedonia it. Extraordinary editions create handmade limited edition books, employing leading artists and craftsmen. A minimal requirement to put anything back is an rs for the extraordinary rendition claim. Cia tried to silence eu on torture flights world news the guardian. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading extraordinary rendition special agent dylan kane thrillers book 9.
Mar 02, 2018 sons of an illustrious father extraordinary rendition subscribe to sons of an illustrious fathers youtube. This book examines the efforts of authorities in europe and the us to reestablish rule of law and respect for human rights through the investigation of the program and its outcomes. The dictionary definition of rendition gives two meanings, first being a performance or interpretation especially of a dramatic role or piece of music and the second being the practice of. This new anthology produced by extraordinary editions in association with the raf museum commemorates a hundred years of service and sacrifice, courage and honour, whilst celebrating the spirit and values of the people who have contributed to the raf story.
The raf commemorative anthology extraordinary editions. Extraordinary rendition the coverup continues craig murray. N3p was a tailnumber assigned to a boeing 737 that the chicago tribune reported on tuesday, february 6, 2007, flew from tashkent to kabul, afghanistan, on september 21, 2003, and then to szczytnoszymany international airport in poland, landing at 9 p. Extraordinary rendition s ending makes a poignant case for the power of art in an age of war. Smashwords extraordinary rendition a book by david n.
Extraordinary rendition ebook written by don pendleton. Jul 09, 2010 confronting rendition to torture in north carolina. Such renditions have been carried out for example by the united states government. As it turned out, it was part of the cias rendition fleet. Eu to report on cia rendition claims world news the guardian. A staggering map of the 54 countries that reportedly.
To date, owing to the extraordinary secrecy surrounding cia secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations, there is no precise estimate of the total number of detainees subjected to these operations. The allparty parliamentary group on extraordinary rendition was established by andrew tyrie mp now lord tyrie in december 2005, in response to allegations that the uk had been involved in the us rendition programme. Jan 17, 2017 so it is possible that members of the blair government in power at the time when most of the acts of extraordinary rendition are alleged to have taken place could end up facing a long jail sentence. The term extraordinary rendition is never an official cia term, but it comes to define the cias program of snatching terrorist suspects abroad and transferring them without legal process to a. In 2000 my wife and i began translating islamic books and texts. Equipo nizkor globalizing torture cia secret detention. Extraordinary rendition brings together the work of sixtyfive prominent writers to examine americas culpability in the denial of human rights and dignity to palestinians in israelpalestine and beyond the anthology includes pieces by writers such as chana bloch, jane hirshfield, colum mccann, roger reeves, george saunders and alice walker. Minister admits rendition planes used raf bases craig murray. When an fbi safe house is attacked and a convoy of weaponsgrade plutonium is hijacked, all eyes.
Robert kennedy, available everywhere books are sold january 28th, 2020. Crofton black is a british counterterrorism investigator who has spent years tracking down the detritus of extraordinary rendition a polite euphemism for the government practice of snatching. Questions from ming campbell to goverment minister adam ingram in the house of commons on 14th december. Extraordinary rendition, with its unsavory whiff of cruel torture, was exactly such a covert policy. Dec 20, 2005 questions from ming campbell to goverment minister adam ingram in the house of commons on 14th december sir menzies campbell. Flight records of a cia 747 regularly used in renditions, registration n3p, show it left washington dc according to the schedule and flew to tripoli before leaving for an. We publish a wide range of hand bound facsimiles of rare and unpublished manuscripts, that deserve to be published by dint of their importance or their beauty, preferably both. In mid 2007, three pilots allegedly involved in the extraordinary rendition of khalid elmasri had their real identities revealed. How a journalist exposed the worlds most brutal torture program. Appg on extraordinary rendition what is extraordinary. The plane that rendered abdallah was registered as n3p and operated by aero. Black site project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks.
Extraordinary rendition under international law case western reserve journal of international law, vol. Confronting rendition to torture in north carolina. One extraordinary cia torture jet is up for sale insidehook. Mar 07, 2006 last week, the liberal democrats threatened to report the minister to the parliamentary ombudsman if he continued to refuse to answer detailed questions about flights suspected of being used for extraordinary rendition the practice of sending detainees to camps where they were at risk of being tortured. The sources that do appear in the section are a patchwork of nonrs web post and selfpublished works. Brian martin, an adventurous british pilot, showed me his log books, which described. Pets was the owner of a boeing business jet, 7377et, formerly registered with the federal aviation authority faa as n3p and now as n4476s, when the jet was used to transport plaintiff from skopje, macedonia to detention and interrogation in afghanistan. Uncovering the secret locations where the us government illegally. There is no source at all for the claim that the aircraft in this section was used for extraordinary rendition.
In a subsequent report, in april 2006, amnesty international used flight records and other information to locate the black site in eastern europe or central asia. In extraordinary rendition, award winning usa today and millioncopy bestselling author j. Mar 07, 2018 in a cabin built from the same materials as camp xray, the temporary detention facility at guantanamo bay, and with the same internal dimensions of a detainees cell, extraordinary rendition is a piece for one person at a time that uses video, sound and live performance to interrogate the kind of colonisation that begins with the battle for. This is the story of their imprisonment, and the trail of evidence that. Nearly two years have passed since the 4th of july attacks that killed thousands and the u. The north carolina connection to extraordinary rendition and. The rendition team and flight crew from n3p relaxed here in. Apr 10, 2017 one extraordinary cia torture jet is up for sale. N379p appears in the episode hundrede dage of the danish tv series borgen which focuses on the problems for the danish primeminister caused by the revelation of rendition flights landing at thule.
Jan 01, 2015 extraordinary by miriam spitzer franklin is truly an extraordinary book, and one of the best ive read in a while. Macedonia called to account over extraordinary rendition. Extraordinary rendition, also called irregular rendition or forced rendition, is the governmentsponsored abduction and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another with the purpose of circumventing the former countrys laws on interrogation, detention and torture. School of law, the north carolina connection to extraordinary rendition and torture, at paras 22. Boeing 737 torturetaxi used for cia renditions later. Apr 08, 2012 in 2004, fatima bouchar and her husband, abdel hakim belhaj, were detained en route to the uk, and rendered to libya.
The crews of n3p have been described as cia pilots, who flew from johnston county, nc, to dulles international airport to pick up men and women. Later on, when the gulfstreams log books came into a journalists hands, the wider scope became. The report, which documented the cases of three yemeni nationals, was the first to describe the conditions in black site detention in detail. The result is a breathtaking, pulsepounding thriller that will leave readers questioning everything they thought they knew about one. Cia secret detention and extraordinary rendition acknowledgments this report was written by amrit singh, senior legal officer for the open society justice initiatives national security and counterterrorism program, and. To establish the truth about the scope and scale of uk involvement in extraordinary rendition. In military terminology, a black site is a location at which an unacknowledged black project is conducted. Extraordinary rendition special agent dylan kane thrillers book 9 kindle edition by kennedy, j. On the streets of a democratic russia, espionage, civil war and mafiya control dominate a new kind of battlefield.
The aircraft listed in this article have been identified in international news media as being used for prisoner transports. Buy a cheap copy of extraordinary rendition book by michael newton. Scott that positions carvers work within a longer history of military strategy and state violence against uncertain warfare, this book skillfully presents the territorial. It had the registration number n3p the letter n indicating that it was a usbased jet. Indian ocean territory where the us has a large base, the book says. For four years, n3p, a modified boeing 737 bizjet, flew people whod been kidnapped by the cia to secret torturecamps. The result is a breathtaking, pulsepounding thriller that will leave readers questioning everything they thought they knew about one of the most important scientific breakthroughs our society has come to rely upon. In extraordinary rendition, award winning usa today and million copy bestselling author j. The rendition team and flight crew from n3p relaxed here in january 2004 after the transfers of binyam mohamed from morocco to afghanistan and of khaled elmasri. When ali hussein, suspected terrorist and alleged banker for al qaeda, is finally transported from guantanamo bay to the us mainland to stand trial, many are stunned when byron carlos johnson, a preeminent lawyer and son of a highprofile diplomat, volunteers to represent him. Mar 17, 2016 the rendition team and crew from n3p relaxed in the hotel in january 2004 after the transfers of binyam mohamed from morocco to afghanistan and of khaled elmasri from macedonia to afghanistan. Spy released from custody in extraordinary rendition. That picture was of a boeing 737 executive jet with no company logo, the type only superrich people can buy.
His research on extraordinary rendition led to global transpark, a publicprivate consortium built by the state of north carolina with. On january 23, 2004, a jet with tail number n3p, registered to. They describe the process by which a detainee is transferred from one state to another, outside normal legal processes such as extradition or deportation. Such renditions have predominantly been carried out by the united states government, with the consent of the. All parliamentary group on extraordinary rendition. Extraordinary rendition by elspeth guild overdrive. Recently, the term has gained notoriety in describing secret prisons operated by the united states central intelligence agency cia, generally outside of u. The n3p airplane, and other planes allegedly used by the cia to transport prisoners, have also repeatedly landed at airports in jordan, morocco, egypt, and. The rendition team and crew from n3p relaxed in the hotel in january 2004 after the transfers of binyam mohamed from morocco to afghanistan and of. How a pakistani journalist exposed the cias most secretive. The result is a breathtaking, pulsepounding thriller that will leave readers questioning everything they thought they knew about one of the most important scientific.
The north carolina connection to unc school of law. Laws condemning extraordinary rendition, torture, and detention. Apr 11, 2012 flights that came from or were bound for countries linked with extraordinary rendition circuits and the transfer of detainees. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The cias extraordinary rendition program is over, but its scope is still shrouded in some mystery. Some of the most notorious rendition planes, such as n379p, n3p and n85vm, stopped regularly at portuguese airports en route to or from the locations of known us proxy prisons. Robert kennedy once again takes todays headlines and twists them to his own ends.
Rendition and extraordinary rendition are not terms defined by law. Extraordinary rendition, the latest novel from usa today bestselling author j. Ali hussein, a suspected terrorist and alleged banker for al qaeda, is finally transported from guantanamo bay to the us mainland to stand trial. In addition, a gulfstream v that is being used to carry out an extraordinary rendition appears in jason trasks 2011 novel, im not muhammad red wheelbarrow books. A justout report, released by the open society foundation, sheds new. N3p is now known to have been used in a great many rendition operations. Many are stunned when byron carlos johnson, a preeminent lawyer and son of a. Globalizing torture cia secret detention and extraordinary.
Among the people transported on n3p are fatima bouchar and her husband, cory doctorow 7. For sale, one of the cias extraordinary rendition torture. San francisco bay guardian if rupa were a movie she would be amelie meets women on the verge of a nervous breakdown meets latcho drom meets do the right thing. The us led programme of extraordinary rendition created profound challenges for the international system of human rights protection and rule of law. Rendition aircraft are aircraft used by national governments to move prisoners internationally, a practice known as rendition, the illegal version of which is referred to as extraordinary rendition. The rendition of elmasri was a particularly unfortunate one as it eventually turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. Reports state cia extraordinary rendition flights landed in uk by robert stevens 5 november 2009 a us registered plane named in a 2007 european parliament report into alleged. A listen to extraordinary rendition is a perfect way to spend 52 minutes away from the days stresses and grumbles to indulge in a bit of muchneeded magic realism. Extraordinary rendition by james macomber nook book. Sons of an illustrious father extraordinary rendition youtube. Nov 28, 2006 they are likely to be similar to those he produced in april in an interim report that said the us intelligence agency had operated more than 1,000 socalled extraordinary rendition flights over. Our list is devoted to works of literature, history, contemporary politics, travel, art, and cuisine from around the world, often from areas underrepresented in western media. Extraordinary rendition established in 1987, interlink is an independent publishing house that offers a global, cosmopolitan perspective.