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Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
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ACLU Lawsuit targets planner of CIA torture flights

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Thursday May 31, 2007 16:43author by Indy.ie Ljubljana Correspondent Report this post to the editors

The Boeing subsidiary is accused of helping facilitate mistreatment of terrorism suspects.
Kind of like IBM during the last Reich, but more 'Hand's On' if you know what i mean?
Kind of like IBM during the last Reich, but more 'Hand's On' if you know what i mean?

The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday charged that a company with offices in downtown San Jose helped the CIA transport three men who were blindfolded, housed in small quarters, beaten until their bones broke and left with mutilated genitals during brutal interrogations.

Using flight documents obtained in Europe, the ACLU filed suit against the company, Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., in the U.S. District Court for Northern California for its part in the alleged kidnapping, torture and inhumane treatment of the three.

From an office on Santa Clara Street in downtown San Jose, Jeppesen employees take calls from customers planning international flights or looking for weather reports.

According to the complaint, Jeppesen helped the CIA get fly-over and landing permits in other countries and provided itineraries and lodging for the flight crews.

The flights took people the CIA wanted to interrogate to prisons in countries - Morocco and Egypt - that allow torture or to then-secret CIA-run detention facilities where the U.S. government argues that its own laws do not apply, according to the lawsuit.

"These are places the whole world, including our own State Department, know use torture as an interrogation procedure," ACLU attorney Ann Brick said.

more at
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_6026687

what's next? Suing countries that assisted these companies that assisted USA Torture?

hmmm not a bad idea, actually!

btw, where is the ICCL thesedays on this issue?

http://www.iccl.ie/

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   nerdy hobbyists magainst torture     Indy.ie Ljubljana Correspondent    Thu May 31, 2007 19:10 
   'They didn't before, but they certainly do now.'     Indy.ie Ljubljana Correspondent    Thu May 31, 2007 19:12 


 
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