Germany issues warrants for 13 people (rendition flights)

[mmonk]

A Munich prosecutor's office has issued arrest warrants for 13 people, some thought to have lived in North Carolina, accusing them of being part of a CIA "abduction team" and kidnapping a German citizen.
The suspects are thought to have been crew members of a 737 Boeing Business Jet, operated in January 2004 by Smithfield-based Aero Contractors. The company provides aircraft rental services with pilot, according to Dun & Bradstreet, a business information company.

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The German investigation picks up from one led by authorities in Spain. That probe obtained aviation records and documents left at Spanish resort hotels, where crew members rested between flights from Algeria to Macedonia. At the hotels, crew members left photocopies of their passports and made calls home -- some to North Carolina, says Stephen Grey, a British author of a book on rendition.

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http://www.newsobserver.com/110/story/538488.html

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Maybe this indicates countries are willing to stand up to our abuses of human rights finally. Rendition flights are a reason I can't support Governor Easley's bid for the Senate. I really mean it when I say I won't vote for rightwing democrats. If our party can't come up with a different candidate that can run, I'll have to skip that vote. But maybe progress is being made, albeit slowly, to start and bring the US back into the world community and it's standards.

[Hubert Flottz]

1. K&R

[Mnemosyne]

2. knr n/t

[ShortnFiery]

3. Amazing. Is there any Nation that our Unitary Executive has NOT

thumbed his nose at?

[mmonk]

4. Let's hope nations get really tired of the thumbing the nose treatment.

If it starts to affect corporate profits, maybe that will help re-establish the old system.

[Swamp Rat]

5. GOOD! n/t

[KoKo]

6. Thanks for posting...and agree about Easley....n/t

[KoKo]

7. A little more from the BBC article yesterday saying EU Knew about our Rendition Flights..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=89191&mesg_id=89191

[mmonk]

9. I wonder if the report will have any negative effect

on the case for conviction.

[mmonk]

8. Glad you agree about Easley.

I might catch flak for not supporting him in a senate race. I appreciate anyone who understands.