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AP: Detainees Whisked Out of Gitmo To Avoid Compliance With Anticpated Court Ruling

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Sat Aug 07, 2010 at 08:24:00 AM EST
Tags: Guanatanamo, rendition, Ghost Air (all tags)
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Through an examination of flight records and interviews with U.S. officials and others, the AP has learned the Bush Administration used "Ghost Air," the secret airline that flew detainees to overseas "black hole" prisons for harsh interrogation, to whisk four high-level detainees out of Gitmo and back to a black hole overseas prison -- right before the Supreme Court was to rule on whether detainees can have access to the courts.

Who were they? None other than Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Nashiri, Ramzi Binalshibh and Mustafa al-Hawsawi. [More...]

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