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Congress pledges closer look at renditions
The US Congress promised to look more closely at the practice of ‘extraordinary renditions’, one of the more controversial tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency in fighting terrorism
US issues guidelines for CIA interrogators
George W. Bush issued long-awaited guidelines for Central Intelligence Agency interrogators but withheld details of what methods would now be permitted
‘CIA secret prisoner’ trial starts in Italy
Twenty-six Americans accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terrorist suspect went on trial in absentia in Italy just hours before the arrival in Rome of George W. Bush.
Europeans ‘aided US renditions’
A long-running European inquiry into CIA activities in Europe said it had proof that the agency had operated secret prisons in Poland and Romania.
ACLU sues Boeing arm over CIA renditions
The American Civil Liberties Union sued a Boeing subsidiary for allegedly helping the Central Intelligence Agency transport prisoners under its extraordinary renditions programme.
US ‘will not hand over CIA agents to Italy’
Washington would refuse any demand by Rome to give up alleged Central Intelligence Agency operatives to face criminal trial on charges that the agency abducted terror suspects, a leading US official said.
Details of men held in CIA jails demanded
The Bush administration was urged to reveal the whereabouts of 16 men who were allegedly detained in secret Central Intelligence Agency prisons.
Americans to stand trial in rendition case
An Italian judge has ordered 25 alleged CIA agents and the former head of Italy’s military intelligence service to be put on trial on charges of kidnapping an Egyptian imam in Milan.
MEPs condemn rendition flights
European governments ‘turned a blind eye’ to the illegal transportation of alleged terrorists through their countries by the CIA, a hard-hitting European parliament report concluded.
Germany seeks arrest of 13 ‘CIA agents’
German prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 13 suspected CIA agents in connection with the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen.
