The CIA's "Special Removal Unit" Torture /Kidnapping Operation

[Itsthetruth]

CounterPunch
Weekend Edition
April 9 / 10, 2005

The Road to Rendition
Torture Air, Incorporated
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

A sleek Gulfstream V jet with the tail number N379P has racked up more international miles than most passenger jets. Since October 2001, this plane has been spotted in some of the world's most exotic and forbidding airports: Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Karachi, Pakistan, Baku, Azerbaijan, Baghdad, Iraq, and Rabat, Morocco.

It has also frequently landed at Dulles International, outside Washington, DC and enjoys clearance to land at US military air bases in Scotland, Cyprus and Frankfurt, Germany. Observers around the world have noticed men in hoods and chains being taken on and off the jet.

The plane is owned by a company called Bayard Marketing, based in Portland, Oregon. According to FAA records, Bayard's lone corporate officer is a man called, Leonard T. Bayard. There is no contact information available for Bayard. Indeed, there's no public record of Bayard at all. No residential address. No telephone numbers. Nothing.

In fact, Bayard Marketing is a dummy corporation and Leonard Bayard is a false identity. They were both created by the CIA to conceal an operation launched after the attacks of September 11, 2001 to kidnap suspected terrorists and transport them to foreign governments where they could be interrogated using methods outlawed in the United States ­ that is, tortured and sometimes killed.


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[mattclearing]

1. Your tax dollars at work.

Laws are often an impediment to justice these days, it seems.

[Maat]

2. This is the so-called "rendition."

Wow, what an UNCONSCIONABLE, DISGUSTING practice!

Spirit, may they be held fully accountable (each and every one) for participating in this abhorent vile practice. Amen.

That's all I can say.

[derby378]

3. Nominated for Greatest Page

Pile it on!



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[undergroundpanther]

7. Gotta wonder

When will more people get the courage to call B*sh admin what it is: traitorous?
Traitors to the Constitution, to the bill of rights,to laws, to human rights,to what it is that gives humans with a conscience their basic humanity?
Doesn't the idea of people being arrested,detained without trials ordue process,taken on a plane somewhere else(usually to one of tghose countries bush has declared part of the "axis of evil")to be tortured.Anyone being secretly flown away at night by clandestine ops without any trial or defense to be tortured or killed looks very anti American(what America is supposed to stand for) to me..does it to you too?

Why does B*sh continually get away with this?

[derby378]

8. We had our chance in 2004

But too many Democratic candidates chickened out. They treated the election with kid gloves. And they lost. And many of them desrved to lose.

Part of the problem lies with us. We need to refine ourselves just like you refine gold in a forge to burn out all of the - well - impurities.

[mmonk]

4. Correct for the most part

except it's not done to avoid our legal system as we aren't following any legal system currently. It's primarily for intimidation purposes.

[derby378]

5. Does anyone have pictures of N379P?

Just to shine a little more light on this national tragedy...



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[Itsthetruth]

6. Yes

[derby378]

9. Thank you

It's always best when you know what the enemy looks like.



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[paineinthearse]

10. Here we go again.

Do a search on the tail numbers or "Gulfstream". There are scores of posts in the archives.

Also do a search for the same under my name in www.commomgroundcommonsense.org

You'll find posts going back to last November, perhaps earlier.

There are several planes involved, not just this one. One is owned by one of the Red Sox partners and has the Red Sox logo on its tail.

[LibertyorDeath]

11. Maybe they're not taking them anywhere

Maybe they're just pushing them out of the Jet over open Ocean.

They fly to Uzbekistan pick up some "terrorists" then on the way back to
Dulles International somewhere over the Atlantic they tell these "suspects" tell us what we want to know or out you go.

Who would know
Who would say.

Just a thought.

[enough]

12. If they did, it certainly wouldn't be the first time.

[enough]

13. Amazing quotes from Yoo.

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"Why is it so hard for people to understand that there is a category of behavior not covered by the legal system?" Yoo proclaimed. "Historically, there were people so bad that they were not given protection of the laws. There were no specific provisions for their trial, or imprisonment. If you were an illegal combatant, you didn't deserve the protection of the laws of war."

Of course, in the absence of a trial, who is to determine if the people detained as "illegal combatants" are either "illegal" or even "combatants"?

Even more brazenly, Yoo contends that the Bush administration is free to ignore US laws against torture.

"Congress doesn't have the power to tie the hands of the President in regard to torture as an interrogation technique," said Yoo. "It's the core of the Commander-in-Chief function. Congress can't prevent the president from ordering torture."

Yoo claims that if Congress has a problem with Bush flouting its laws, the solution is simple: impeachment. He also argued that the US public had its shot at repudiating Bush's detention and torture program and instead endorsed it. "The issue is dying out," Yoo told the New Yorker magazine. It "has had its referendum."

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[LibertyorDeath]

14. Excuse my ignorance but who is this Yoo person they sound

absolutely vile like one of Pinochet's hench men.

Do you have a link.

Thanks