[Mb-civic] Outsourcing Torture From Massachusetts

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Outsourcing Torture From Massachusetts

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/11/29/terror_suspects_torture_claims_have_mass_link/

(Excerpts.  Read it.  3 pages.  Learn who your neighbors really are.)


Most here know Hill & Plakias as a family law firm that handles real estate 
and civil squabbles for the residents of this Boston suburb.

But the inconspicuous office above a Sovereign Bank, across from the red, 
white, and blue flags of a used car lot called Patriot Motors, is also the 
address of a shadowy company that owns a Gulfstream jet that secretly 
ferried two Al Qaeda suspects from Sweden to Egypt.

The covert procedure, which must be authorized by a presidential directive, 
has gained little attention inside the United States.

"People are more or less openly admitting that there are certain practices 
that we would rather not do in the US, so why not let our allies do it?" 
said Ray McGovern, a former CIA operations officer who has frequently 
criticized the tactics used in the war on terror.

The Sunday Times of Britain reported two weeks ago that it had obtained a 
classified flight log of the plane that showed 300 flights from Washington, 
D.C., to 49 nations, including Libya, Jordan, and Uzbekistan -- three 
countries where the State Department has reported the use of torture. The 
story focused on the jet and Premier Executive Transport Services, the 
Massachusetts-registered company that owns it.



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