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Jennifer_SFBA
09/19/06, 12:53 pm
The article below is about the "rendition" of an innocent Canadian Muslim man, Maher Arar, who was secretly taken by the United States while changing planes in New York, held in U.S. custody for 12 days of questioning without the benefit of Miranda rights, Constitutional rights, protections under the Bill of Rights or legal council, winding up in Syria where he was tortured, namely, beaten and kept in a coffin sized dungeon for ten months, and there admitted to events that never took place in an attempt to stop the torture being perpetrated against him. Maher Arar "... filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court, but the case was dismissed by a judge citing "national security" issues. ..."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14897315/
Muslim held by U.S. was sent to Syria for interrogation
• Canadian was falsely accused, panel says
Updated: 2:42 a.m. PT Sept 19, 2006
TORONTO, Sept. 18 - Canadian intelligence officials passed false warnings and bad information to American agents about a Muslim Canadian citizen, after which U.S. authorities secretly whisked him to Syria, where he was tortured, a judicial report found Monday.
The report, released in Ottawa, was the result of a 2 1/2-year inquiry that represented one of the first public investigations into mistakes made as part of the United States' "extraordinary rendition" program, which has secretly spirited suspects to foreign countries for interrogation by often brutal methods.
The inquiry, which focused on the Canadian intelligence services, found that agents who were under pressure to find terrorists after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, falsely labeled an Ottawa computer consultant, Maher Arar, as a dangerous radical. They asked U.S. authorities to put him and his wife, a university economist, on the al-Qaeda "watchlist," without justification, the report said.
Arar was also listed as "an Islamic extremist individual" who was in the Washington area on Sept. 11. The report concluded that he had no involvement in Islamic extremism and was on business in San Diego that day, said the head of the inquiry commission, Ontario Justice Dennis O'Connor.
Coffin-sized dungeon
Arar, now 36, was detained by U.S. authorities as he changed planes in New York on Sept. 26, 2002. He was held for questioning for 12 days, then flown by jet to Jordan and driven to Syria. He was beaten, forced to confess to having trained in Afghanistan -- where he never has been -- and then kept in a coffin-size dungeon for 10 months before he was released, the Canadian inquiry commission found.
O'Connor concluded "categorically there is no evidence" that Arar did anything wrong or was a security threat.
Although the report centered on Canadian actions, the counsel for the commission, Paul Cavalluzzo, said the results show that the U.S. practice of renditions "ought to be reviewed."
"This is really the first report in the Western world that has had access to all of the government documents we wanted and saw the practice of extraordinary rendition in full color," he said in an interview from Ottawa. "The ramifications were that an innocent Canadian was tortured, his life was put upside down, and it set him back years and years."
Arar, who came to Canada from Syria when he was 17, said in Ottawa that he was thankful that he had been vindicated. He expressed surprise and anger at learning Monday that Canadian authorities also had asked U.S. authorities to put his wife on the al-Qaeda watchlist.
"Today Justice O'Connor has cleared my name and restored my reputation," he said at a news conference. He said the individual Canadian officials should be held accountable: "Justice requires no less."
‘An innocent man’ O'Connor said it was beyond his mandate to recommend discipline for any individual.
"He really is a victim of authorities in three governments, as well as being an innocent man," Irwin Cottler, a member of parliament from the Liberal Party, said after the report was issued.
Stockwell Day, the federal government's public safety minister, said the treatment of Arar was "regrettable. We hope, with any future situations, never to see this happen again."
Since Sept. 11, the CIA, working with other intelligence agencies, has captured an estimated 3,000 people in its effort to dismantle terrorist networks. Many of them have been secretly taken by "extraordinary rendition" to other countries, hidden from U.S. legal requirements and often subject to torture.
Jennifer_SFBA
09/19/06, 12:57 pm
Continued:
Those renditions are often carried out by CIA agents dressed head to toe in black, wearing masks, who blindfold their subjects and dress them in black. The practice is generating increased opposition by other countries; Italy is seeking to prosecute CIA officers who allegedly abducted a Muslim cleric in Milan in February 2003, and German prosecutors are investigating the CIA's activities in their country.
Although details of the renditions and the destinations of those held are secret, President Bush has confirmed the existence of CIA-run prisons throughout the world. Some of the subjects of renditions have been held in those prisons.
O'Connor also recommended that the government review the case of three other Muslim Canadian citizens, who were detained when they traveled through Syria, to determine what role Canadian authorities played in their imprisonment.
But it was the case of Arar, a reserved, soft-spoken father of two, that created an outrage in Canada after he returned in 2003 and said he wanted the public to know what had happened to him.
The report said agents of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police "overstated" Arar's importance in the broad investigation they began of potential Canadian suspects after Sept. 11.
Talking to other Muslim Canadians
Canadian police opened a file on Arar after seeing him talking to two other Muslim Canadians they were watching, authorities have acknowledged. Arar insisted the men were casual acquaintances in the small Muslim community in Montreal, where he lived before moving to British Columbia.
O'Connor said Monday that police agents told the Americans that Arar was "suspected of being linked to the al Qaeda movement." The judge concluded: "The RCMP had no basis for this description."
The Mounties also falsely claimed Arar had refused to be interviewed and had "suddenly" left for Tunisia. It listed him as a business associate of another man they called a "Bin Laden associate." Those descriptions were "either completely inaccurate" or overstated his casual connections, O'Connor said in a 822-page, three-volume report.
That information "very likely" led to his rendition, the report said. U.S. officials refused to cooperate with the Canadian inquiry.
‘Sheer incompetence’
Cavalluzzo said the Canadian agents apparently operated without proper training. "The best one can say is that it was sheer incompetence. They did not appreciate the fact that the branding of someone as a 'target' or 'suspect' or 'Islamic extremist' to Americans in 2002 could lead to disastrous consequences."
After Arar was detained in New York, Canadian authorities apparently were unaware the Americans were preparing to send him to Syria, according to the commission finding.
The RCMP contact, Inspector Michel Cabana, "was under the impression that Mr. Arar would only be detained for a short time," O'Connor's report said. "In his view, Mr. Arar was being held in a country with many of the same values as Canada."
Arar filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court, but the case was dismissed by a judge citing "national security" issues. Arar also is seeking compensation from the Canadian government.
Some crucial questions about the incident remain unanswered, at least publicly. Over the repeated objections of O'Connor, the federal government censored much of the testimony given during the proceedings as well as some of the final report. O'Connor's report said a federal court should be asked to decide whether to disclose some of the censored items.
Arar was not permitted to testify; the judge ruled it would be unfair to subject him to questioning based on secret information. He has testified before a European Parliament committee in Brussels.
Special correspondent Natalia Alexandrova contributed to this report.
© 2006 The Washington Post Company
Jennifer_SFBA
09/19/06, 08:25 pm
The true and, to date, uncontested life story of Cathy O'Brian, CIA, MK-ULTRA mind controlled slave with Mark Phillips, ex-CIA operative who was largely responsble for Cathy's deprogramming is a testament to the best in the human spirit and will expressed in their books, "Trance-Formation of America" and "Access Denied." Very high level government officials are named. WARNING, their books and other materials are not for the faint of hear! It is the truth as they experienced it.
http://www.trance-formation.com/about_trance.htm
TRANCE Formation of America was originally written, in graphic detail, for the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Oversight in 1995, seven years after Mark Phillips rescued my daughter Kelly and I from our White House/Pentagon level MK-Ultra mind control victimization. We had previously been stopped from presenting our compiled eyewitness testimonies, supporting medical documents and hard evidence to all local, state, and federal legal bodies for so-called “reasons of National Security”. Once it became clear that we would not be able to address the Congressional Committee, TRANCE was released en masse in the form of a self-published book. It is now in its eighth printing, and is rapidly spanning the globe.
Mark and I began utilizing our First Amendment Rights by publicly whistle-blowing about mind control in 1991. In order to compile the evidence and begin a nation-wide mail-out of the information, we were reduced to living with Mark’s mother in a tiny two-bedroom house, able to eat only through food stamps and donations. After sending the information to every prominent politician and political organization in Washington and receiving only the form responses, we finally had a breakthrough in 1992. At that time, I was able to address the Tennessee State Legislature after Kelly had been denied her Constitutional and human rights when forced into Tennessee State custody. The judge presiding over her so-called “legal” case, Judge Andrew Shookhoff, said in open court “laws do not apply in this case for reasons of National Security.” This statement was the first stage of public validation from the bureaucratic and institutional realms. And it may have been the very act that saved our lives.
It is love for Kelly and determination to obtain classified technological rehabilitation for her and for the countless other victims worldwide who cannot think to speak for themselves, and love for humanity as a whole that motivates Mark and I to bring this reality to light. We are not alone in this effort, as there are individuals from global intelligence and governments who have been actively risking their jobs, retirement, and even lives to ensure that these facts reach people from all walks of society in order to make a necessary positive difference. Mind control is the most important issue facing humanity today as all other issues, causes, and choices are contingent upon free thought. We all formulate our thoughts, opinions, and actions based on what we know, and you Need-to-Know that your knowledge base is being deliberately altered through the suppression of pertinent information. Mind control is the missing piece of the puzzle that brings the global political picture into focus and explains so much of what we are seeing in society today. In a world where many people have fallen out of love with life, it is imperative to restore those human values we hold so dear NOW while we can still think to do so.
Upon researching the detailed facts documented in TRANCE and responding to this no-longer-secret problem with action, we all stand to win the psychological war that has been waged on us by a very few. Kelly’s and my named abusers’ justify their application of mass mind control by invoking an entire spectrum of ‘virtues,’ from that of population control to a means of achieving world peace. I know from experience that there is no peace in mind control, because without free thought there is no free will and without free will there is no soul expression. As a nation, our future is at stake. It is time to join the ever-increasing number of people worldwide who are raising public awareness by spreading the word on this 21st century technology for psychological control of our planet. Indeed, it is truth that makes u.s. free
Cathy O’Brien!
Jennifer_SFBA
09/19/06, 08:25 pm
Continued:
http://trance-formation.com/
On August 3rd, 1977 the 95th U.S. Congress opened hearings into the reported abuses concerning the CIA's TOP SECRET mind control research program code named MK-Ultra. On February 8th, 1988, a top-level MK-Ultra victim, Cathy O'Brien, was covertly rescued from her mind control enslavement by Intelligence insider Mark Phillips. Their seven year pursuit of Justice was stopped FOR REASONS OF NATIONAL SECURITY. TRANCE Formation of America exposes the truth behind this covert government program and its ultimate goal: psychological control of a nation.
TRANCE Formation of America is the first documented autobiography of a victim of government mind control. Cathy O'Brien is the only vocal and recovered survivor of the Central Intelligence Agency's MK-Ultra Project Monarch operation. Tracing her path from child pornography and recruitment into the program to serving as a top-level intelligence agent and White House sex slave, TRANCE Formation of America is a definitive eye-witness account of government corruption that implicates some of the most prominent figures in U.S. politics.
"It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free - to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation, wants him to think, feel and act.
"The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective."
Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley, 1958
http://www.trance-formation.com/about_access.htm
ACCESS DENIED For Reasons of National Security
With their lives and liberty on the line, TRANCE was hurriedly condensed from courtroom testimony into a book form and privately published by the authors in September 1995.
ACCESS DENIED For Reasons of National Security is the rest of their true life's story, which required 16 years for the authors to survive and 3 years for them to write. This book is an amazing testament to the strength of the human spirit and one you will never forget for as long as your thoughts remain free.
While TRANCE has become known worldwide in many licensed translations as one of the most successful US government whistleblowers' book ever written, it was never intended for the public who had no reference for understanding mind control nor was it to be considered a book. Rather it is what it is, a true and to date uncontested document for the US Congressional Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Oversight. TRANCE is Cathy O'Brien's documented testimony she provided to US courts, US Congress, and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Abuses of her existence as a CIA MK-Ultra mind control project's slave.
ACCESS DENIED is a real book of answers, solutions and positive hope for all of u.s. and our allies around the world. This book was written for everyone and especially for the thousands who have read TRANCE and were left to imagine pertinent details that could not be included.
How did Cathy recover from being tortured "out of her mind" until age 30 when intelligence insider Mark Phillips triggered and rescued her and her daughter Kelly away from their CIA operative handler?
What are the documented details of how Mark & Cathy survived the state and federal and Congressional judicial gristmill aptly called the criminal justice system?
Last but not least, what are the facts as to how Mark & Cathy were able to survive long enough to globally expose the criminal acts of some of the most politically powerful people who are still in control our planet to this very day?
ACCESS DENIED is a whistleblowers' living guide to success.
FDRfollower
09/20/06, 12:39 am
You're right Jenn, I've read the book, and its true, some parts make you want to barf, they're so disturbing. A couple of other leads you should check into.
The Frank Olsen case, linky (http://www.frankolsonproject.org/), an old CIA/MI6 black operation that predates Kathys time, but involves people like Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld.
The Ultimate Evil by Maury Terry which is in print.
and the Franklin Cover up linky (http://www.thelawparty.com/FranklinCoverup/franklin.htm) which overlaps some of what Kathy talks about. Try to get the book. I have it, although I'm reluctant to lend it out. :)
Jennifer_SFBA
09/20/06, 01:43 am
Thank you, FDRFollower. I have not read either of those two books, but I will look for them. England and the U.S. have always had illuminatti ties that bind. Those things this tread is about is what one world government/New World Order is about too.
Jennifer_SFBA
09/20/06, 02:42 am
There are numerous extremely disturbing links about 9/11/2001 at the link below. Many are free full length investigative videos. Now 9/11 must NOT be allowed to be another criminal event shielded in the name of national security!
http://www.freepressinternational.com/911.html
FDRfollower
09/20/06, 05:47 pm
Thank you, FDRFollower. I have not read either of those two books, but I will look for them. England and the U.S. have always had illuminatti ties that bind. Those things this tread is about is what one world government/New World Order is about too.
Not really ties. Until the ascendancy of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the US and Britain have been mortal enemies. Although from the beginning of our Republic, we've had the enemy operations run out of the British Oligarchies lackeys here, Wall St., the confederacy, and the Boston Brahmin families. You don't have to make them mysterious. Shakespeare wrote Othello (as an example) of the method of the Venetian Oligarchy (which was taking over England roughly in the 17th century), Friedrich Schiller wrote "The Ghost Seer" to show the same evil oligarchy in their true nature. James Fenimore Cooper wrote "The Bravo" and "The Spy" to give americans warning of who the true enemy is, in a fictional setting. All were partisan activists in the efforts around both helping create the United States as the first Republic in mankind history and a bulwark against the rotten European oligarchy.
Jennifer_SFBA
09/21/06, 12:36 pm
Hi, FDRFollower. My reference is to the occultist illuminatti (black arts secret societies whose history goes back centures). They exist and do practice black arts everywhere in the world, but the ties between black arts secret societs in England and the black arts secret societies in the United States were strongest and the most powerful because of the wealth the "lodge" members of those connected societies commanded and high positions of power they achieved and their focus on illuminatti one world government empire building. Black arts illuminatti in Germany with the assistance of black arts illuminatti in England and the U.S. sought together total world domination under Hitler's 1000 year Reich that was not successful because of the efforts, in part, of white arts illuminated practioners.
The "occult" history of the world is fascinating. There is evidence that FDR was intimately connected with white arts occult practitioners who advised him and who actively practiced "white magic" to defeat black arts practitioners in Germany. During his presidency, FDR quietly invested a large amount of his own personal weath in a Canadian venture to find and recover the lost treasure of the Knights Templar. Just after the war with Germany, high level U.S. military command purposefully recovered from a German castle, at which location Nazi SS practiced black arts against the Allied forces, the spear of Longenes that Hitler himself personally took possession of from a Polish museum shortly after his Nazi invasion of Poland for the purpose of employing it as a talisman in his black arts war against the Allied forces. That spear was the very spear that the Roman centurian, Longenes, had used to pierce the side of Christ on the cross. It was used to call forth demons to perform acts on behalf of black arts practitioners and to obtain information, a significant amount of which was technological.
FDRfollower
09/21/06, 02:48 pm
linky (http://wlym.com/pdf/iclc/hitlerbook.pdf)
There you go, there's a PDF of a book written about the occult side of the Nazis.
You really should read Schillers the Ghost Seer though. It'll be better for you, in terms of understanding the nature of the old Oligarchy.
Like most cults, satanism is just another aspect of how they "run" things.
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