It's beyond belief, but two major news outlets, Newsday and the Washington Post have stories out right now, and the Newsday claims Sweden broke convention laws for sending prisoners to Egypt for torture. Only problem is, both Newsday and the Washington post report that it was our CIA who did it. Even the names are the same, except one is misspelled.
So, now, we're blaming Sweden for what we do. Guess blaming Clinton just isn't working anymore.
Read these before they figure it out and pull these stories:
New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action
Probe Finds 'Rendition' Of Terror Suspects Illegal
By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, May 21, 2005; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/20/AR2005052001605.htmlU.N. Finds Sweden Broke Torture Convention
By SAM CAGE Associated Press Writer May 20, 2005, 6:22 PM EDT
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-un-sweden-egypt-terror-suspect,0,5612435.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlinesGENEVA -- Sweden broke international law when it sent a terror suspect home to Egypt despite his protests that he would be tortured there, a United Nations human rights body found Friday.
and then buried at the bottom:
Lawmakers and human rights groups have also criticized Sweden for allowing the extradition to be handled by American agents. Both men were returned to Egypt on an airplane leased by the U.S. government.
STOCKHOLM -- The CIA Gulfstream V jet touched down at a small airport west of here just before 9 p.m. on a subfreezing night in December 2001. A half-dozen agents wearing hoods that covered their faces stepped down from the aircraft and hurried across the tarmac to take custody of two prisoners, suspected Islamic radicals from Egypt.
Inside an airport police station, Swedish officers watched as the CIA operatives pulled out scissors and rapidly sliced off the prisoners' clothes, including their underwear, according to newly released Swedish government documents and eyewitness statements. They probed inside the men's mouths and ears and examined their hair before dressing the pair in sweat suits and draping hoods over their heads. The suspects were then marched in chains to the plane, where they were strapped to mattresses on the floor in the back of the cabin.
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At 9:47 p.m., less than an hour after its arrival at Bromma Airport, the jet took off on a five-hour flight to Cairo, where the prisoners, Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad Zery, were handed over to Egyptian security officials.
More conflicts arose after the plane landed. One Swedish officer walked up the steps of the aircraft to greet the crew and was surprised to see that the agents -- a half-dozen or so Americans and two Egyptians -- were wearing hoods with semi-opaque fabric around the face, even though the small airport was essentially deserted.
"I told them that you don't need to wear hoods because there is no one here," the officer recalled in his statement to investigators. The foreign agents ignored him.
The two Egyptians later told lawyers, relatives and Swedish diplomats that they were subjected to electric shocks and other forms of torture soon after their forced return to their country.
The names are the same except one letter: Ahmed Agiza Muhammed Alzery, and Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad Zery.
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