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The Intelligence Factory: How America Makes its Enemies Disappear

When I first read the U.S. government’s complaint against Aafia Siddiqui, who is awaiting trial in a Brooklyn detention center on charges of attempting to murder a group of U.S. Army officers and FBI agents in Afghanistan, the case it described was so impossibly convoluted—and yet so absurdly incriminating—that I simply assumed she was innocent.

According to the complaint, on the evening of July 17, 2008, several local policemen discovered Siddiqui and a young boy loitering about a public square in Ghazni. She was carrying instructions for creating “weapons involving biological material,” descriptions of U.S. “military assets,” and numerous unnamed “chemical substances in gel and liquid form that were sealed in bottles and glass jars.”

Siddiqui, an MIT-trained neuroscientist who lived in the United States for eleven years, had vanished from her hometown in Pakistan in 2003, along with all three of her children, two of whom were U.S. citizens. The complaint does not address where she was those five years or why she suddenly decided to emerge into a public square outside Pakistan and far from the United States, nor does it address why she would do so in the company of her American son.

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Posted by aseerun on February 14, 2012 in Flashback, News Items

Tags: Aafia Siddiqui, Bagram, Binyam Mohamed, CIA, Enforced Disappearance, Extraordinary Rendition, FBI, Fowzia Siddiqui, Ghazni, John Kiriakou, Jose Padilla, kidnap, Maher Arar, Pakistan, rendered, Rendetion, Saud Memon, Taliban, Uzbekistan

The Case of Gulet Mohamed: Brutalised Abroad at the Behest of America

11 Feb

Gulet Mohamed was an average 18-year-old American citizen before a visit to family overseas resulted in his torture and indefinite detention in a Kuwaiti prison.

Mohamed, whose family is Somali, immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of three, fleeing the devastating civil war that ravaged that East African country.

Mohed Mohamed, his older brother, maintained that his family, having fled Somalia in 1995, has always been pro-American and grateful to the United States for its intervention in Somalia’s civil war in the 1990s.

Zahra Mohamed, his sister, explained that Gulet, like any other American teenager, grew up playing basketball, had an iPhone, and obsessed over the game Madden NFL. But like many American teenagers, Gulet had a bad case of wanderlust. He wanted to travel abroad to learn more about his heritage, Zahra explained.

He begged his mother to let him leave: after all, he had never known his father, and he wanted to learn Arabic. Traveling to the Middle East would let him get to know his father’s side of the family, rediscover his roots, experience his ancestral homeland, and learn the language of the Quran.

In March, 2009, Gulet Mohamed departed from Alexandria, Virginia to study Arabic and Islam in in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. Gulet, the most adventurous of the seven siblings, was the first member of his family to travel outside the United States since the family’s relocation.

After several weeks of study, he left to visit his maternal relations in Somalia at his mother’s insistence. Residing in his uncle’s home for several months, Gulet found the environs uncomfortably hot and painfully sickening through bouts of food poisoning that left his youthful wanderlust unsated. Mohamed again ventured to visit other family living in Kuwait and to continue his studies in Arabic.

Throughout his journey of seeking knowledge and rekindling the ties of kinship, Mohamed traveled on an authentic American passport with valid visas for all of the countries on his whimsical itinerary. His past history had no indication of any violent or criminal activity, nor had he ever been arrested.

Yet, on December 20, 2010, when Mohamed went to the airport in Kuwait City to have his visa renewed (a process he had routinely engaged in every three months without incident for the past year), he was told by a visa officer that his name had been “marked” in the computer.

After five hours of uneasily waiting, Mohamed had finished sending his brother an email when he was handcuffed, blindfolded, and kidnapped by two men in civilian clothes. After a fifteen minute drive in a SUV, Mohamed was deposited in an undisclosed location. He was then dragged into a room and interrogated by officials who refused to identify themselves.

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Posted by aseerun on February 11, 2012 in Flashback

Tags: Anwar al-Aulaqi, Anwar al-Awlaki, eric holder, falaqa, FBI coercion, FBI misconduct, Gadeir Abbas, Gulet Mohamed, Kuwait, Mohed Mohamedm Zahra Mohamed, percussive torture, proxy detention, proxy interrogation, Refugee, rendered, Rendetion, Sana’a, sleep deprivation, somali, Somalia, torture, unlawful interrogation, Yemen

Heart Breaking! The Case of Shaykh Abu Mouadh Nourdine Nafi’a and his wife.

28 Jan

The Case of Shaykh Abu Mouadh Nourdine Nafi’a and his wife.

The joint committee received this letter from Shaykh Abu Mouadh Nourdine Nafi’a. He wrote it while he was being held in Kenitra central prison, in which he was subjected to barbaric torture after he was arbitrarily transferred on the 9th of October 2010. He was on hunger strike since the 6th of December 2010 while he was there until he was between life and death. He wrote this letter then speaking about the kidnapping he and his wife have been through and detention and torture in Temera secret detention centre and other secret centers.

He is now is solitary confinement, cut off the world around him in Toulal 2 prison, Meknes. He is one of those accused of being behind the Sala prison clashes (16-17/May/2011) or what is known by “Salé Zaki prison riot”

All praise is due to Allah and peace and blessings be upon his messenger, his family, his companions and those who adhere to him.

To proceed:

I am shaykh Abu Mouadh Nourdine Nafi’a, who is currently held in Kenitra central prison. Prisoner number: 26512, I am the one signed below, Nourdine Nafi’a who is sentenced to 20 years based on fabricated evidence under the guise of “combating terror”. I reiterate that I am innocent of all charges against me. I am a victim of American policies in the region. To clarify this I will outline what I and my wife have been through of suffering and violations in the dungeons of the secret services.

I am a Moroccan citizen, a member of the Islamic movement since the 80s. A Muslim, Sunni, following the Quran and the noble traditions of the prophet, according to the understanding of our pious predecessors such as Imam Malik, Shafi’i, Ahmed, Abu Hanifa may Allah have mercy upon them. I migrated from my homeland in 1988 to Afghanistan for the intention of joining the “Jihad”. It was not possible to go to Palestine, between me and it were thousands of barriers because of the “Arab cordon states”. My first stop was Europe and after repeated attempts I managed to travel to Pakistan in 1991, then to Afghanistan after the fall of the communist government. I made that country my homeland. In 1998 I left Afghanistan for Syria, Damascus, where I married the sister of Yassine al-Shaqori who is held is Guantanamo may Allah hasten his release. I began to trade to support my family, travelling between Syria and Turkey for trade. Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted by ansaraseerun on January 28, 2012 in News Items

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Action Alert: Victim of Five Years US Abduction & Torture Needs Donations

16 Oct

Suleiman Abdallah Salim is a Tanzanian national who was abducted in Somalia in April 2003 by a notorious Somali warlord known as Mohammed Deere, well-known for being in the pay of the CIA. During his capture at the hands of Deere’s henchmen, Suleiman was so badly injured that he had to be taken to hospital. However, after less than 24 hours he was dragged from his hospital bed by Deere, and delivered to some Americans who were waiting at an airstrip just outside Mogadishu.

After a short time in Somalia, Suleiman was taken to Nairobi, where he was held near the airport for eight days, and interrogated by members of the CIA and FBI. It appears that initially Suleiman’s interrogators thought that he was someone else – a Yemeni – but even so, they did not release him. After eight days in Nairobi, Suleiman was taken on a CIA plane to Bossasso in Somalia, and then to Djibouti. From Djibouti, Suleiman was taken to Afghanistan, where he spent over five punishing years in secret US prisons, including the notorious Dark Prison, the Saltpit, and finally Bagram Airforce Base.

During his entire time in US custody, Suleiman never saw a lawyer, nor was he allowed any contact with family members. Indeed, Suleiman’s family had absolutely no idea where he was until he reappeared over five years after his disappearance.

Ultimately, Suleiman was released back to Tanzania in July 2008, with a piece of paper from Bagram saying that he was not considered a threat to the United States. To this day, Suleiman has been given no assistance at all by any of the governments or individuals complicit in his abduction, secret detention and torture, and there is no court in the world where he could bring a case with any hope of getting through the doors of the court, let alone an award to help him get on with his life.

Undeterred, since his release, Suleiman has worked to rebuild his life again, and has done remarkably well so far. Last year Suleiman married a local woman, who has recently given birth to a baby girl. However, Suleiman is struggling to provide for his new family, and he cannot find work in his already, economically depressed island home. Suleiman is looking for funds to travel to Japan where he has been offered a job loading containers in a dock, and to provide for his new family whilst he gets himself on his feet.

Donate:

You can donate to Suleiman at the following bank account details below:

Account name: Suleiman A Salim

Account number: 5391729998

Swift Code: EXTNTZTZ

Chips UID 370780

Bank Address: Exim Bank (T) Ltd, Dar-Es-Salam, Tanzania

IBAN: GB85DEUT40508130585400

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Posted by aseerun on October 16, 2011 in Campaigns

Tags: abduction, Action Alert, Afghanistan, Bagram, black sites, CIA, Dark Prison, extrajudicial detention, FBI, http://www.cageprisoners.com, incommunicado, Mohammed Deere, Rendetion, Salt Pit, Somalia, Suleiman Abdallah Salim, Tanzania, the Saltpit, torture

Djamel Beghal: Date Unknown (My Story)

13 Oct

In summary, it is the same again and again …

If you are Muslim, more or less young, bearded, attending a mosque, who has childhood friends, neighbours or co workers sharing the same convictions, if you communicate between each other – like everyone else – by phone … This, then, becomes an ideal “terrorist” cell, a network of “sleepers” to perfection, which, tomorrow might need to make one of JT and the press’s headlines. This cell can then be yet another addition to the hunt bag of French terrorist hunters. These hunters, who in reality are the antiterrorist judges, specialise in this field. In the legal domain, they are specialists only in the morbid arts of burying the living in the graveyards of solitary confinement and legal torture, as well as in the arts of making false records, resemblances of cases and fantastical accusations.

As for the sentences, they distribute the maximum possible on those who are culturally educated and well instructed to make them seem like the heads. They make the rest look like a bunch of blunt knives and give them just under the maximum sentence, which holds the same torments of destroying their familial, professional and social lives.

Recent revelations in Wikileaks, relayed by the daily Le Monde, 1 December 2010, written by Piotr Smolar, whose courage I salute (it is rare to see such evidence from a journalist when it comes to judicial French injustice committed with impunity against, what is meant by term, Islamists), finally gave credible evidence and a voice to the somewhat muffled cries that I have been consistently pushing from the abyssal areas of `total isolation and legal torture’ of the French prisons for the past ten years! Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted by aseerun on October 13, 2011 in Letters from Djamel Beghal, Risala

Tags: 9/11, Algeria, CIA, DGSE, Djamel Beghal, extrajudicial detention, fabricating terrorism, france, http://www.djamel-beghal.com, isolation, Jean-Francois Ricard, Jean-Louis Bruguière, Judge Jean-Francois Ricard, Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière, Judge Philippe Vandingenen, MI6, Murat Prison, Nizar Trabelsi, Philippe Vandingenen, pretrial detention, Rendetion, SDAT, solitary confinement, Sub-Directorate Anti-Terrorism, torture

Action Alert: Write to the French authorities about the case of Djamel Beghal

13 Oct

Please take action for Djamel Beghal who was convicted due to statements taken under the duress of torture. Cageprisoners wants you to help push the French government into establishing an inquiry which will re-examine his case.

Take Action

Write or send an email (scroll down and enter first your name and first name, then your email address, then the object: (affaire Beghal), and then copy and paste the following message) to the French Minister of justice to request:

The opening of an investigation against the judges Bruguiere and Ricard
The nullification and revision of the judgement that condemned Djamel Beghal and his co-accused as well as the immediate nullification of any measures that would still affect them.

If you are a French citizen or a French resident, please contact your MP to request him to raise the issue in the Parliament and press for a government inquiry. In order to send a message to the French Minister of Justice, please use the following link and the sample letter below: Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted by aseerun on October 13, 2011 in Campaigns

Tags: Action Alert, Algeria, Cageprisoners, Djamel Beghal, fabricating terrorism, france, http://www.cageprisoners.com, http://www.djamel-beghal.com, Rendetion, torture

African Muslims rendered to Uganda – Home to Infamous JATT

27 Jun

The headquarters of JATT is near the top of Kololo Hill in a Kampala suburb. Over the past two years, more than 100 people have been unlawfully detained there.

Mohamed Ali Mohamed is a Muslim and resident of Nairobi, Kenya. He is facing extradition to Uganda by order of Frederick Ruhindi , the Attorney General of Uganda and also the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, as sworn by Ndungutse Ngaruye John a Ugandan police officer.

Mohamed Ali Mohamed last visited Ugandain 2009,MbaleTownto see a close relative that was studying there. Ali Mohamed was arrested onthe 11th January 2011inTanga,Tanzania. On the 12th January 2011Ali Mohamed was transferred to Dar Es Salaamand detained for a month without being presented to any court of law.

During this time Ali Mohamed was subjected to extraordinarily long interrogations by state security officers from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania as well as a Caucasian agent of the name ‘Erick’ from Washington, USA.

He was made to falsely confess that he was part of the Kampala bombings on the 11th July 2010 and was coerced to state this otherwise he would face torture, be killed and his friends and relatives including his pregnant wife, also detained, would not be released but face the same treatment.

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Posted by aseerun on June 27, 2011 in News Items

Tags: Al-Amin, al-Amin Kimathi, al-Shabab, Cageprisoners, FBI, JATT, Kampala, Kampala Bombing, Kenya, MI5, Mohamed Ali Mohamed, Omar Awadh, Rendetion, Reprieve, Somolia, Tanzinia, torture, Uganda

Abu Mouadh Nourdine Nafi’a: December 2010 (I am overpowered, so help me!)

15 Dec

All praise is due to Allah and peace and blessings be upon his messenger, his family, his companions and those who adhere to him.

To proceed:

I am shaykh Abu Mouadh Nourdine Nafi’a, who is currently held in Kenitra central prison. Prisoner number: 26512, I am the one signed below, Nourdine Nafi’a who is sentenced to 20 years based on fabricated evidence under the guise of “combating terror”. I reiterate that I am innocent of all charges against me. I am a victim of American policies in the region. To clarify this I will outline what I and my wife have been through of suffering and violations in the dungeons of the secret services.

I am a Moroccan citizen, a member of the Islamic movement since the 80s. A Muslim, Sunni, following the Quran and the noble traditions of the prophet, according to the understanding of our pious predecessors such as Imam Malik, Shafi’i, Ahmed, Abu Hanifa may Allah have mercy upon them. I migrated from my homeland in 1988 to Afghanistan for the intention of joining the “Jihad”. It was not possible to go to Palestine, between me and it were thousands of barriers because of the “Arab cordon states”. My first stop was Europe and after repeated attempts I managed to travel to Pakistan in 1991, then to Afghanistan after the fall of the communist government. I made that country my homeland. In 1998 I left Afghanistan for Syria, Damascus, where I married the sister of Yassine Al-Shaqori who is held is Guantanamo may Allah hasten his release. I began to trade to support my family, travelling between Syria and Turkey for trade.

In the very same year we found out that my wife had a tumor in her head. Hence I used to travel from one hospital to another and from country to another. I increased in my trade transactions and interaction to be able to pay off treatment and travel costs. This continued until I managed with the help of other business men to set up an import and export office. In (Year not mentioned) a doctor advised that it was necessary for my wife to have laser treatment to remove the tumor or she would be in danger of losing her sight. They advised me to travel to Jeddah to carry out the operation. We tried but we couldn’t get a visa for Umrah for Ramadhan 1423 AH, November 2002CE. Some tradesmen advised us to travel to Mauritania where citizenship is relatively easy to get and then to travel to Saudi during the hajj season.

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Posted by aseerun on December 15, 2010 in Letters from Abu Mouadh Nourdine Nafi’a, Risala

Rabeh Osman: August 22, 2010 (Where are the Muslims? Where are the free men? Where are the honourable men?)

22 Aug

All praise is due to Allah and peace and blessing be upon his messenger, family and companions

Assalaamu ‘alaykum warahmatullaahi wabarakaatuhu,

Firstly I advise you and myself to obey Allah, depend on him in all affairs and to be patient with His decree.

I sent you many letters previously which were held back by the prison, I pray to Allah that this letter reaches you. We are well, all Praise is due to Allah, we miss your news and the news of the Muslims around the world. My brother , all praise is due to Allah, the Milano court freed some brothers completely from all terrorism charges including Habib and Ali Zaydan and Abu Maryam. Now they are to be deported to Tunisia where the killing, rape, torture and humiliation.

Even though the European court stopped deportation to Tunisia as well as the supreme Italian court, the evil terrorist, interior minister is insisting on handing the brothers to the Tunisian government, so please try to do something for them as soon as possible, try to contact the lawyer in London or call anyone who’s able to stop their deportation to Tunisia.

As for my case, I received a letter from the Spanish Court declaring my innocence of all charges and it’s signed by the Italian minister of justice, and with all this they are insisting on keeping me in prison. I’ve been in prison for six years and two months and this is my seventh Ramadan walhamdulillaah.

I sent with this letter, Italian papers which include: A complaint I forwarded against Nuoro and Sardinia prisons, the letter I received from Spain, a copy of my medical report which they altered. I complained about them but as usual, they put my case on hold even though it’s of extreme importance… this is Italy for you.

Brother, here’s some bad news:

They took ten brothers to a new jail in Rossano including Khaled Sarai. The guards and the commander in charge at that prison assaulted an Egyptian brother called Radi al-Ayyash, they punched and hit him with sticks, left him in confinement for six days without any cloth or cover, not even a blanket or bed. They didn’t give him any medicine nor bring a doctor to see him after he was bleeding due to all the beating. On the seventh day they transferred him to Nuoro prison. The same thing happened to me last year.

When the brothers demanded their rights, the prison director threatened to beat them, humiliate them and put them in confinement. He deprived them from food and a place to relieve themselves for 3 days. Wallaahi, three days with no food.

So the brothers protested against this treatment and called it “the rebellion of excess” , they threw urine and feces all over that section of the prison, and every time it’s cleaned they do the same thing again. One of the brothers drank a litre of cleaning detergent; another brother drank laundry soap and another swallowed 25 tablets of medicine all at once, protesting against this ill, racist and cruel treatment by the director and commander. Currently, three of the brothers are in solitary confinement for 3 months only because they asked for their rights.

Brother, please deliver these events to the Muslims around the world.

Let the Muslims hear our cry coming deep from the heart.

O Ummah of Islaam, we are facing in Italy all kinds of oppression, torture and racism.

Where are the Muslims? Where are the free men? Where are the honourable men?

There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah and Muhammad is his messenger, peace and blessings be upon him.

Wa kull ‘aam wa antum bikhayr in this Blessed Month of Ramadan.

Was-salaamu ‘alaykum warahamatullaahi wabarakaatuhu,

Your brother Rabeh Osman, The Egyptian (from the Madrid case) freed by Spain and convicted by Italy

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Posted by aseerun on August 22, 2010 in Letters from Rabeh Osman, Risala

Tags: abuse, Italy, Khaled Sarai, Madrid, medical negligence, Nuoro, Rabeh Osman, Radi al-Ayyash, Rendetion, Rossano, Sardinia, solitary confinement, Spain, Tunisia

Nassim Saadi: May 29, 2010

29 May

Salam alaykum,

I hope inshallah this letter will find you in the good of health and high imaan, I’m your brother in Islam from Tunisia. I am 35 years old and married to an Italian wife and I have one child who is 11 years old.

I was arrested in 2002 in Milan, accused of internatonal terrorism. I was the first muslim arrested for terrorism offences in Italy since the 11th September 2001. I was held in prison for 3 years, and in this period I had 40 hearings in the law courts. Presented as witnesses were the FBI, Scotland Yars and the Italian Secret Service. I was released from prison in 2005.

Whilst I was released, I found out my brother had died in Iraq. It was thought that he was killed in the attack against the United Nations there, and when the police took my DNA to match against that person, the British Police could not match the DNA. I believe my brother was killed in Iraq, but I do not think that it was in this attack against the UN.

I was then taken by the Italian Police in 2006 to an immigration centre,where they intended to extradite me to Tunisia. Tunisia had given me a 20 year sentence in my absence without any proof or open trial, based on nothing. In that period, I wanted to claim political asylum in Italy but the Italian authorities instead wanted to send me to torture, knowing what the Tunisian government will do to Islamic prisoners. In that period, I wrote a letter to Strasbourgs law court, and they gave a judgement that I can stay in Italy. At the same time, the Italians charged me again with terrorism offences and sentenced me for 8 years and 10 months. They invented these charges, created a false impression and false personality about me just so that I would look like a terrorist to the Strasbourg courts. Alhumduillah though, the Strasbourg court gave me a judgement in my favour, saying that it is forbidden to deport me to torture. They ordered the Italians to keep me in Italy and that if they deported or extradited me to Tunisia it would count as a cruel act and to do so would be forbidden.

Sadly the Italians refuse to accept the verdict of the European Court, and they love to punish muslims in this country and always try to send them to the arab countries so they can be tortured.

This is my sad life in this country.

Before I end this letter, I will tell you about another brother, Mohammed Mannai. He was sentenced in Tunisia for 120 years!! Incredible condemnation, I wish him all the best for the future.

Your brother in Islam, Abu Annis ( Nassim Saadi )

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Posted by aseerun on May 29, 2010 in Letters from Nassim Saadi

Tags: Abu Annis, ECHR, extradition, Italy, Mohammed Mannai, Nassim Saadi, Rendetion, Saadi vs Italy, Strasbourg, torture, Tunisia