Written by Alex Newman
Wednesday, 13 January 2010 13:00
JBS.org
The German Parliament and criminal prosecutors will investigate allegations of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency plans to illegally kidnap and possibly even assassinate German citizens without informing the government, international press reported this week.
In an explosive story that was first uncovered and exposed by Vanity Fair in its current issue, and this weekend expanded upon by the German publication Spiegel, a former CIA agent and others revealed that the agency had illegal plans to “rendition” people suspected of supporting terrorism. "It was about grabbing people without the Germans knowing about it," the German magazine quoted the ex-agent as saying. "We were planning stuff that was totally illegal."
The “extraordinary rendition” program, originally developed in its current incarnation by the former President George W. Bush administration, involves kidnapping suspects and shipping them to other countries for torture, interrogation and detainment. Last year, as The John Birch Society reported, more than 20 CIA agents were convicted in an Italian court for involvement with just such an operation in Milan; kidnapping an Egyptian cleric and sending him via a U.S. air base in Germany to Egypt for four years of “enhanced interrogations,” eventually releasing him without charges.
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