A History of the World Since 9/11
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From the very beginning people had doubts . . . We’ll get our proof. . . The guy was an innocent: Interview, unnamed CTC officer, 14 March 2010.
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Jailers at the Salt Pit. . . Even the rendition team: Mayer, The Dark Side, p. 283.
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This is not the appropriate place: Declaration, Exhibit F, p. 11.
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I don’t think you belong here: Lisa Myers, ‘CIA Accused of Detaining Innocent Man’, MSNBC, 21 April 2005.
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Is that guy still locked up in the Salt Pit?: The Dark Side, p. 285.
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The Agency was already in a state of quiet panic: Details of the Salt Pit’s existence, and the tragic death that took place there, were revealed in Dana Priest, ‘CIA Avoids Scrutiny of Detainee Treatments’, Washington Post (3 March 2005).
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It’s the wrong Khaled el Masri: The Dark Side, p. 285.
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Are you telling me we’ve got an innocent guy: The Dark Side, p. 286.
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deny everything: If the ‘reverse rendition’ was handled correctly, CIA officers reasoned, the el Masri problem would vanish. ‘There wouldn’t be a trace. No airplane tickets. Nothing. No one would believe him,’ one former official told the Washington Post (‘Wrongful Imprisonment’, 4 December 2005). There was even a chance that Masri might benefit: perhaps he could be paid to shut up. According to Jane Mayer, Deputy Director of Operations James Pavitt found this notion amusing: ‘[T]he guy will earn more money in five months than he ever could have any other way!’ The ruse was vetoed by Condoleezza Rice. ‘Your plan won’t work,’ she told Tenet. ‘We have to tell the Germans.’ The Dark Side, p. 286.
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I can’t answer those questions: Declaration, Exhibit F, p. 13. Declaration of Khaled el-Masri, p. 18.
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Please don’t. Give me two days: Declaration, Exhibit F, pp. 13-14.
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The exposure of the CIA’s rendition programme: For details about the investigative processes involved, see Grey, Ghost Plane.
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They were Germans . . . They told me they wanted to talk: Interview, Josep Manchado, 23 October 2010.
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Germany’s ZDF Television showed . . . There it was: The ZDF researcher responsible was Jorg Hendrik Brase – who happened to have excellent contacts in Macedonia (‘I knew some guys who knew the boss of flight control’). ‘[Manchado] could prove through his photo that this plane with this registration number, had been seen in Palma,’ he recalls. ‘But the confirmation actually we finally got through the database on Skopje Airport. They had all the flight details, the arrival of the plane. They confirmed that he came from Palma, that he arrived in Skopje that certain day and stayed there a certain number of hours and then took off. . . and from there he went to Kabul’ Interview with Jorg Hendrik Brase, 21 June 2010.
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An enterprising Mallorcan journalist: Matias Valles, ‘La CIA usa Mallorca como base para sus secuestros por avion’, Diario de Mallorca (12 March 2005).
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Gran Melia Victoria . . .Marriott Son Antem: Ghost Plane, Chapter 4: ‘Mistaken Identity’.
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On 31 May 2004, Daniel R. Coats: According to Jane Mayer, Otto Schilly was livid: ‘Why are you telling me this?’ he demanded. ‘My secretary is here – taking notes!’ Schilly was of the opinion that the CIA’s original plan – sending el Masri home and shutting up – would have been preferable: ‘Why didn’t you just let him go, give him some money and keep it quiet?’ The Dark Side, pp. 286-7. See also Dana Priest and Julie Tate, ‘Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake’, Washington Post (4 December 2005).
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She didn’t know. She just had a hunch: ‘Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake’.
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There is no rendition that was ever . . . I was there: Interview with an unnamed CIA official involved with the rendition programme, 26 March 2010.
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I’m able to say: Press Availability with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, 6 December 2005.
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We’re not sure what was in [Merkel’s] head: Joel Brinkley, ‘Rice is Challenged in Europe over Secret Prisons’, New York Times (7 December 2005).
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the local government can make . . . to work with us: Secretary of State, Remarks upon Departure for Europe, 5 December 2005.
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All of the Europeans: Interview, Michael Scheuer, 26 March 2010.
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Credit records, phone records: Interview with unnamed CIA official involved with the rendition programme, 26 March 2010.
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speculative and unfounded: Dick Marty, ‘Alleged Secret Detentions and Unlawful Inter-state Transfers of Detainees involving Council of Europe Member States’, Special Rapporteur (12 June 2006), p. 26.
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Let me make it clear: ‘CIA Received German Files on German Captive’, Reuters, 17 December 2005.
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I would say if you wrote that: Interview with unnamed CIA official involved with the rendition programme, 26 March 2010.
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I do not underestimate . . . laws such as these: Opinions of the Lords of Appeal for Judgement in the Cause, 16 December 2004, pp. 52-3.
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perhaps one of the most serious challenges . . . governments depart from their obligations in this way: Human Rights Council’s Eminent Panel of Jurists, Forward (v).
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States tamper with this framework . . . It is difficult to exaggerate: Human Rights Council’s Eminent Panel of Jurists, pp. 16-17.
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In operating the system . . . international law: Annual Lecture of the Law Reform Committee of the Bar Council: ‘Our Government and the International Rule of Law since 9/11’, 29 November 2006, p. 7.
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twenty-six CIA operatives: ‘Italy Convicts CIA agents in CIA Kidnap Trial’ CNN, 4 November 2009. ‘CIA Agents Convicted in Italy Unlikely to Serve Time’, TIME (4 November 2009).
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I probably wouldn’t travel: Interview, Professor John Radsan, 22 March 2010.
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Eric Robert Hume . . . wife’s name was Janet: See, for example, ‘“Ghost Pilots” of the CIA’s Rendition Team’, Los Angeles Times (18 February 2007). For details on these individuals, go to www.source-watch.org/index.php?title=Extraordinary_rendition.
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Eleven American men and two women: ‘Germans Charge 13 CIA Operatives’, Washington Post (1 February 2007).
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This isn’t something where: Interview with unnamed CTC officer, 14 March 2010.
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Don’t believe this was some devious operation . . . approving it. . . we don’t run secret prisons: Interview, Professor John Radsan, 22 March 2010.
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The Executive Branch . . . Not only were they ordered . . . we would get sold out at some point: Interview, Michael Scheuer, 26 March 2010.
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What we want you to do: Interview with unnamed CTC officer, 14 March 2010.
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The appearance didn’t do much good: Margaret Satterthwaite, The Story of el Masri versus Tenet: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in the “War on Terror”‘, New York University School of Law, Public Research Paper 08-64 (December 2008).
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all fair-minded people must: The Story of el Masri versus Tenet: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in the “War on Terror”‘.
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The case of Khaled el Masri is exemplary: Dick Marty, ‘Alleged Secret Detentions and Unlawful Inter-state Transfers of Detainees involving Council
of Europe Member States’, p. 33.
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central facts [of the case]: ‘The Story of el Masri versus Tenet: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in the “War on Terror”’.
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The only place in the world: The Story of el Masri versus Tenet: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in the “War on Terror”’.
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Do whatever you want: ‘German CIA Rendition Victim Sentenced to Jail for Assault’, The Local (31 March 2010).
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CIA shell company: European Parliament, Giovanni Claudio Fava, ‘Working Document No. 8 on the Companies Linked to the CIA, Aircraft Used by the CIA and the European Countries in which CIA Companies have Made Stopovers’, Rapporteur, 16 November 2006.
7: Friends in Low Places
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All who live in tyranny: George W. Bush’s Second Inaugural Address, January 2005.
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Ozodlik!: Shirin Akiner, ‘Violence in Andijan, 13 May 2005. An Independent Assessment’, CACI Silk Road Paper (July 2005). Akiner concludes that the raiders shouted ‘Allahu akbar!’ (p. 14). Human Rights Watch disagrees: ‘Protestors were shouting ozodlik (‘freedom’), not, as reported, Allahu akbar.’ Bullets were Falling like Rain: The Andijan Massacre, May 13, 2005.
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I heard these very loud noises . . . You’re free! . . . I was very emotional . . . What are we supposed to do now?: Interview with Sardor Azimov (name changed), 6 November 2009.
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boiled alive: Khusnuddin Alimov (24) and Muzafar Avazov (35), serving sentences for involvement in Hizb-ut-Tahrir, were murdered, apparently for refusing to stop praying in Jaslyk. Their bodies were returned to Tashkent for burial on 8 August 2002. Azamov’s body was photographed. Forensic analysis of the photographs at Glasgow University led to the conclusion that The pattern of scalding shows a well-demarcated line on the lower chest/abdomen, which could well indicate the forceful application of hot water whilst the person was within some kind of bath or similar vessel.’
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Every year when our conversations . . . They basically said: Interview with Sasha Petrov, 8 September 2009.
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There’s going to be a crisis in Central Asia: Interview with Alison Gill, 2 September 2009.
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The main focus was on quality . . . When we started . . . We never advertised: Interview with Nodir Mahmudov (name changed), 26 October 2009.
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We understood that we had to: Interview, Sardor Azimov, 6 November 2009.
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We started building schools . . . They saw that what we were making: Interview, Nodir Mahmudov, 26 October 2009.
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We told them all about: Interview, Sardor Azimov, 6 November 2009.
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We offered our system to the President: Interview, Nodir Mahmudov, 26 October 2009.
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This region is probably the most: Interview with a senior Pentagon official, 13 October 2009.
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You look at the map: PBS Frontline: Campaign Against Terror, 19 April 2002.
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CSAR: Woodward, Bush at War.
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Very swiftly after [9/11]: Interview with David Merkel, 10 September 2009.
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Uzbekistan will be vital: Franks, American Soldier, p. 254.
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geographical and political keystone: Lt-Col Kurt Meppen, ‘US–Uzbek Bilateral Relations: Policy Options’, p. 14, in Daly et al. (eds.), Anatomy of a Crisis: US–Uzbekistan Relations 2001–2005.
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I don’t know what H-Hour was: Interview with Colonel Jon Chicky, 2 September 2009. Colonel Chicky would like it made clear that all opinions expressed here are his own, not those of the National Defense University, the Department of Defense or the US government.
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Travel well into the night: Interview, senior Pentagon official, 13 October 2009.
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secret deal: The ‘initiative’ began in 1999. Covert aid to Uzbekistan was endorsed by the Deputies Committee in April. From the outset things looked bad. The Uzbeks needed equipment and at least six months’ training; chances of success were estimated at just 10 per cent. Predator flights took over, but also ran into trouble (see Chapter 6, ‘The Egyptian’). 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 142, 203, 488. The footnote the ethnicity was wrong comes from an interview with an unnamed CIA source.
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The US and Uzbek positions on this: Interview, senior Pentagon official, 13 October 2009.
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the jumping-off point: At the Center of the Storm, p. 177.
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They weren’t very easy to deal with: Interview with Pentagon negotiator, 2 September 2009. Tommy Franks agreed: ‘Horse-trading was underway all across the region’ (American Soldier, p. 269).
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the kinds of people you found yourself: Bush at War, p. 77. Tommy Franks likewise noted that Karimov’s human rights record was ‘tarnished, at best’. But then, ‘[Rumsfeld would] probably have shaken hands with the devil if that had furthered our goals in the war on terrorism.’ (American Soldier, p. 374).
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You need to be exactly clear . . . We have to be sure . . . We need to get al-Qaeda: Bush at War, pp. 128-9.
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Our delegation is not senior enough: Bush at War, p. 160.
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As soon as the agreement was signed: Interview, Colonel Jon Chicky, 2 September 2009.
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He told us that we should pay . . . I could take this phone: Interview, Sardor Azimov, 6 November 2009.
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There was optimism: Interview, senior Pentagon official, 13 October 2009.
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The base gave us some equity: Interview, Colonel Jon Chicky, 2 September 2009.
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On 27 January 2002: Michael Anderson, ‘Base Motives’, Spectator (21 May 2005).
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At a certain stage: cited Shahram Akbarzadeh, Uzbekistan and the United States: Authoritarianism, Islam and Washington’s Security Agenda (Zed Books, 2005), p. 88.
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Two days later, Elizabeth Jones: Michael Anderson, ‘Base Motives’, Spectator (21 May 2005).
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shot in the forehead . . . I’m prepared to rip off the heads: ‘Torture, an Iron Fist and Twisted Logic Set Stage for Islam Karimov’s Landslide Victory’, The Times (21 December 2007).
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9/11 changed the picture: Interview, Alison Gill, 2 September 2009.
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It wasn’t only the Uzbeks: ‘Opportunism in the Face of Tragedy, Repression in the Name of Anti-terrorism’, Human Rights Watch, 20 January 2002.
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we were right from the beginning: cited ‘Opportunism in the Face of Tragedy’.
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We agree with President Bush: ‘Lots of Wars on Terror: The Bush Doctrine is now a Template for Conflicts Worldwide’, Guardian (10 December 2001).
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How do you balance . . . I thought it was going to be: Interview with Tom Malinowski, 7 October 2009.
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habitual, widespread and deliberate: UN Economic and Social Council, ‘Report of Special Rapporteur on the Question of Torture, Mission to Uzbekistan’, 3 February 2003.
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A lot of stuff in there: Interview, unnamed senior State Department official, 28 September 2009.
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Just stay quiet: Interview, Nodir Mahmudov, 26 October 2009.
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There were loads of people: Interview, Sardor Azimov, 6 November 2009.
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President Karimov was woken . . . 7.30 onwards: Abdumannob Polat, Reassessing And
ijan, p. 13.
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People started joining us: Interview, Nodir Mahmudov, 26 October 2009.
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Do not spill any blood!: ‘Video of Ill-Fated Uzbek Rising offers Haunting, Complex View’, New York Times (22 June 2006).
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Dear Andijanis!: Bukharbaeva and Azamatova, ‘No Requiem for the Dead’, Institute for War and Peace Reporting, 16 May 2005.
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we are not going to teach you: Lt-Col Kurt Meppen, ‘US–Uzbek Bilateral Relations: Policy Options’, p. 21, in Daly et al. (eds.), Anatomy of a Crisis: US–Uzbekistan Relations 2001–2005.
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They did a pretty good job . . . It sure as hell was: Interview, unnamed senior State Department official, 28 September 2009.
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Very few cases: Interview, Alison Gill, 2 September 2009.
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(footnote) So far as we can tell: cited Durukan Kuzu, Andijan Uprising, PhD thesis, Bilkent University, Ankara (September 2008). Rotary club: cited Lionel Beehner, Documenting Andijan, Council on Foreign Relations, 26 June 2006. Interview with Professor Frederick Starr, 27 August 2009.