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227 “Defense Department Takes Custody of a High-Value Detainee”, 27 April 2007,: ссылка скрыта.

228 “Pentagon: Senior Al-Qaeda Operative Caught”, USA Today, 27 April 2007, ссылка скрыта.

229 “Defense Department Takes Custody Of A High-Value Detainee”, 14 March 2008, ссылка скрыта.

230 Mark Mazzetti, “CIA Secretly Held Qaeda Suspect, Officials Say”, New York Times, 15 March 2008, ссылка скрыта.

231 Eric Schmitt and Mark Mazzetti, “US Relies More on Aid of Allies in Terror Cases”, New York Times, 23 May 2009, ссылка скрыта.

232 Stephen G. Bradbury, “Memorandum Re: Application of United States Obligations Under Article 16 of the Convention Against Torture to Certain techniques that May Be Used in the Interrogation of High Value al-Qaeda Detainees”, 30 May 2005 (footnote, p.5), ссылка скрыта.

233 “CIA Rendition: The Smoking Gun Cable”, ABC News, 6 November 2007, ссылка скрыта. See, also, interview with Murat Kurnaz.

234 Interview with Bisher al-Rawi.

235 Interviews with Suleiman Abdalla, Binyam Mohamed and the lawyer of Khaled El-Masri

236 Eric Schmitt and Tim Golden, “Details Emerge on a Brazen Escape in Afghanistan”, New York Times, 4 December 2005, ссылка скрыта.

237 described in the section below on “Proxy detention centres”.

238 Craig Whitlock, “From CIA Jails, Inmates fade Into Obscurity”, Washington Post, 27 October 2007, ссылка скрыта.

239 “Libya/US: Investigate Death of Former CIA Prisoner”, Human Rights Watch news release, 11 May 2009, ссылка скрыта.

240 Craig S. Smith and Souad Mekhennet, “Algerian Tells of Dark Term in US Hands”, New York Times, 7 July 2006, ссылка скрыта.

241 Declaration of Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah in support of plaintiffs' opposition to the United States' motion to dismiss or, in the alternative, for summary judgment, Civil Action No. 5:07-cv-02798 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division.

242 E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.1, paras 93, 126, 525, 550;

243 A/HRC/4/33/Add.1, para. 123;

244 Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Opinion No. 47/2005, A/HRC/4/40/Add.1, p. 41, at para. 15.

245 Interview with the lawyer of Khaled El-Masri in the annex; see also “Statement: Khaled El-Masri”, ACLU, ссылка скрыта.

246 Amnesty International, “United States of America: A case to answer. From Abu Ghraib to secret CIA custody: The case of Khaled al-Maqtari”, 14 March 2008, ссылка скрыта.

247 Human Rights Watch, “Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret CIA Detention”, 26 February 2007, ссылка скрыта.

248 Interview with Murat Kurnaz.

249 Clive Stafford Smith, “Abandoned to their fate in Guantánamo”, Index on Censorship, 2006.

250 Combatant Status Review Tribunal Set 42, pp. 71-77, ссылка скрыта.

251 Combatant Status Review Tribunal Set 28, pp. 31-40, ссылка скрыта.

252 Administrative Review Board Round 2 Factors 799-899. pp. 66-9, ссылка скрыта.

253 Administrative Review Board Set 3, pp. 147-61, ссылка скрыта.

254 Combatant Status Review Tribunal Set 34, pp. 20-22, ссылка скрыта

255 E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.1, paras. 1, 527.and the response from the United States Government, A/HRC/10/44/Add.4, para. 252; Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Opinion No. 47/2005, A/HRC/4/40/Add.1, p. 41.

256 In addition, Aminullah Tukhi explained that ten prisoners in total – six Arabs, two Afghans, an Uzbek and a Tajik – were delivered to the Americans. Although six of these men are accounted for above, it is not known what happened to the other four – an Arab, an Afghan, the Uzbek and the Tajik. Combatant Status Review Tribunal Set 42, pp. 71-77, ссылка скрыта.

257 E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.1, paras. 1, 527.and the response from the United States Government, A/HRC/10/44/Add.4, para. 252;

258 A/HRC/4/40/Add.1, p. 41.

259 Combatant Status Review Tribunal Set 21, pp. 15-23, ссылка скрыта.

260 Interview with Bisher al-Rawi.

261 Both Laid Saidi and Khaled El-Masri spoke about getting to know the Rabbani brothers in the “Salt Pit”. See: Craig S. Smith and Souad Mekhennet, “Algerian Tells of Dark Term in US Hands”, New York Times, 7 July 2006, ссылка скрыта.

262 Amnesty International, “USA: Who are the Guantanamo detainees: Case Sheet No. 15: Yemeni national: Abdulsalam al-Hela”, 11 January 2006, ссылка скрыта.

263 ARB Set 11, pp. 315-334, ссылка скрыта.

264 “In re: Guantanamo Bay Litigation: Status report for petitioners Mohammed al-Shimrani (ISN 195) and Sanad al-Kazimi (ISN 1453)”, 18 July 2008, ссылка скрыта.

Also on the flight that took these men to Guantanamo were Ali al-Hajj al-Sharqawi, Hassan bin Attash and Binyam Mohamed, who are discussed below, in “Proxy detention centres”.

265 ссылка скрыта.

266 “In re: Guantanamo Bay Litigation: Status report for petitioners Mohammed al-Shimrani (ISN 195) and Sanad al-Kazimi (ISN 1453)”, 18 July 2008, ссылка скрыта.

Also on the flight that took these men to Guantanamo were Ali al-Hajj al-Sharqawi, Hassan bin Attash and Binyam Mohamed, who are discussed below, in “Other detention centres”.

267 Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Opinion No. 3/2009 (United States of America), A/HRC/13/30/Add.1, p. XXX

268 Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Opinion No. 11/2007 (Afghanistan/United States of America), A/HRC/7/4/Add.1, p. 85.

269 https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2006cv1697-31.

270 “Final Report of the Independent Panel To Review DoD Detention Operations”, ссылка скрыта.

271 “AR 15-6 Investigation of the Abu Ghraib Detention Facility and 205th MI Brigade”, ссылка скрыта.

272 “Rumsfeld admits secret detention of suspect in Iraq”, MSNBC News Services, 17 June 2004, ссылка скрыта. Eric Schmitt and Carolyn Marshall, “In Secret Unit's ‘Black Room,’ a Grim Portrait of US Abuse”, New York Times, 19 March 2006, ссылка скрыта.

273 Edward T. Pound, “Hiding a bad guy named Triple X”, US News & World Report, 13 June 2004, ссылка скрыта.

274 Human Rights First, “Command’s Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in US Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan”, February 2006, ссылка скрыта.

Eric Schmitt and Carolyn Marshall, “In Secret Unit's ‘Black Room,’ a Grim Portrait of US Abuse”, New York Times, 19 March 2006, ссылка скрыта.

275 In response to a questionnaire on allegations of rendition and detention sent by the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances dated 8 July 2009

276 E/CN.4/2004/3, para. 69.

277 CAT/C/48/Add.3/Rev.1, para. 30. See also the reply of the US Government to a General Allegation regarding the Government’s involvement in one case of extraordinary rendition transmitted by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, in which it affirmed: “… the United States does not transport individuals from one country to another for the purpose of interrogation using torture. Furthermore, the United States has not transported individuals, and will no transport individuals to a country where the Government believes they will be tortured” (A/HRC/10/9, par. 426).

278 A/HRC/6/17/Add.3, para. 36; A/HRC/4/40, paras. 43 and 50; E/CN.4/2004/3, para. 69; A/HRC/4/14, par. 458; A/60/316, para. 45;

279 CAT/C/USA/CO/2, paras. 20, 21.

280 A/60/316; E/CN.4/2006/6; A/HRC/4/40, paras. 52-56;

281 Human Rights Watch, “Double Jeopardy: CIA Renditions to Jordan”, 7 April 2008, ссылка скрыта.

282 Combatant Status Review Tribunal Set 4, pp. 130-144, ссылка скрыта.

283 Combatant Status Review Tribunal Set 41, pp. 28-38, ссылка скрыта.

Administrative Review Board Set 8, pp. 184-218, ссылка скрыта.

284 Human Rights Watch, “Double Jeopardy: CIA Renditions to Jordan”, 7 April 2008, ссылка скрыта.

285 Ibid.

286 Ibid. Others reportedly held in Jordan are: Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed, a Yemeni student rendered from Karachi on 23 October 2001, who has not been heard of since; Ibrahim al-Jeddawi, a Saudi seized in Yemen (or Kuwait) in the first half of 2002, who was reportedly transferred to Saudi custody; at least five other men (three Algerians, a Syrian and a Chechen), seized in Georgia in 2002; an Iraq Kurd, possibly seized in Yemen; and a Tunisian, seized in Iraq. The current whereabouts of all these men unknown. According to former prisoners interviewed by Human Rights Watch, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, seized with Hassan bin Attash and one of 14 “high-value detainees” transferred to Guantanamo in September 2006, was also held in Jordan for an unspecified amount of time, as was Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, seized in Afghanistan in late 2001, who was subjected to multiple renditions (see Egypt, below).

287 Amnesty International, “Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review”, February 2009, ссылка скрыта.

288 Cageprisoners, “Citizens No More: ‘War on Terror’ Abuses in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, July 2007, ссылка скрыта.

289 Megan Stack and Bob Drogin, “The torment of a terror suspect”, The Age, 15 January 2005, available at: ссылка скрыта; for recent developments, see also: Habib case raises complex issues, in: The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 September 2009, ссылка скрыта

290 Interview with Mr. Madni.

291 Agiza v Sweden, communication 233/2003, CAT/C/34/D/233/2003 (2005); and Alzery v Sweden, communication 1416/2006, CCPR/C/88/D/1416/2005;

292 “Libya/US: Investigate Death of Former CIA Prisoner”, Human Rights Watch news release, 11 May 2009, ссылка скрыта.

293 For more details on this case, in particular with regard to the abduction of Abu Omar in Milan and the ensuing judicial proceedings in Italy, see below the section on Italian complicity in the renditions programme.

294 Amnesty International, Italy: A briefing to the UN Committee against torture, April 2007, p. 4, ссылка скрыта.

295 Internal inquiry into the actions of Canadian officials in relation to Abdullah Almalki. Ahmad Abou-Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin pursuant to an Order in Council dated 11 December 2006; ссылка скрыта , paras 42-82; see also: Commission of inquiry into the actions of Canadian officials in relation to Maher Arar, Report of the fact finder of 14 October 2005;

296 Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Opinion No. 8/2007 (Syrian Arab Republic), A/HRC/7/4/Add.1, p. 74. “Unfair trial and sentencing of Muhammad Haydar Zammar”, Amnesty International appeal case, 22 March 2007, ссылка скрыта; see also: Germany’s report to the Committee Against Torture CAT/C/49/Add.4 paras 86-88;

297 Stephen Grey,