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U.S. abducts people from Western countries to be tortured
By Daan de Wit
The Dutch in the original article has been translated into English by Idde Lijnse.
The Sunday Times
mentions a commercial airplane with masked men abducting people in a drugged state from (Western) countries, ordered to do so by the American government and transporting them to countries where they are being tortured. 'The movements of the
Gulfstream 5leased by agents from the United States defence department and the CIA are detailed in confidential logs obtained by The Sunday Times which cover more than 300 flights. <...> The Gulfstream and a similarly anonymous-looking Boeing 737 are hired by American agents from Premier Executive Transport Services, a private company in Massachusetts.'
'The white 737, registration number N313P, has 32 seats. It is a frequent visitor to American military bases, although its exact role has not been revealed. More is known about the Gulfstream, which has the registration number N379P and can carry 14 passengers. <...> Analysis of the plane’s flight plans, covering more than two years, shows that it always departs from Washington DC. It has flown to 49 destinations outside America, including the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba and other US military bases, as well as Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Morocco, Afghanistan, Libya and Uzbekistan.'
Man abducted from Sweden and tortured by electrocutionKjell Jönsson, lawyer for Muhammed Al-Zery, one of the suspects that have been transported out of Sweden in October
2001,
says in The Boston Globe that American masked policemen administered his client anally a sedative, put on diapers and handcuffs and covered his head before bringing him aboard the plane. (See also this
">photo of the transportation of John Walker, the 'American Taliban'). Once in Egypt, the torture country of destination, Zery was blindfolded for a long time – possibly weeks. One of the methods of torture was the use of electrodes. He
told his mother that he had been tortured on an electric chair by electrodes daily for a period of two months on the most sensitive parts of his body, and that he had been laid on an electric mattress four times: 'He would lay on it - like this - and his arms in chains on both sides and his legs in chains too. When they connected to the electricity, his body would rise up and then fall down and this up and down would go on until they unplugged electricity'.
The abducted people from Sweden are still alive and have been lucky in that respect, considering the
statement from the well-known former Middle East CIA operative Robert Baer: 'If you want a serious interrogation you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear . . . you send them to Egypt.' The business plane has made seven trips to Uzbekistan. This website has
reported earlier on the methods of torture used there, which among others consist of boiling people.
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