Excerpts from a book written by Stephen Grey and published in 2006 called Ghost Plane: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Rendition Programme illuminates the problem of “foreign partners.”
“…To provide legal protection for renditions countries like Egypt were asked to provide a promise that they would not torture an individual prisoner. In this way, the U.S. would argue there were no grounds for imagining a “substantial risk” of torture. The downside was that would be hard-going to persuade anyone to believe that assurance. Most CIA insiders never bothered…they told the White House all along that anyone sent to Egypt would almost certainly be treated very brutally. Egypt was a country plagued by terrorism having suffered more than fifty attacks in the years before 9/11. It had dealt with the problem with ruthless repression.” (“Men in Black”, p. 35)
Grey adds that Egypt has been regarded as “Torture Central” and quotes Robert Baer, who worked on the Middle East for twenty-one years while in the CIA:
“If you send a prisoner to Jordan you get a better interrogation. If you send a prisoner, for instance to Egypt, you will probably never see him again, the same way with Syria.” (“Men in Black, p. 35)
Another quote from Baer also claims that all of our Middle East allies are afflicted by fundamentalism, militant Islam.
More than $2 billion a year from U.S. taxpayers, according to Grey, goes to Foreign Military Financing (FMF). Foreign militaries are who we are paying to capture, detain, and interrogate so-called “terror suspects.”
This system existed before 9/11 but after the scale of operations became “large scale and systematic.”
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