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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 23/1/11 I watch Terry Gilliam's Brazil for the first time and wonder how anybody could think that the subject matter of this review and discussion could possibly be a grey area. This means you, Paul...HOW could you....how COULD you????????????????? Have you seen this movie? It's about rendition and torture; slogans like Suspicions Builds Confidence; what life is like when we decide safety is more important than freedom. -------------------------- 19/1/11 Update: a piece contrasting the behaviour of Canada and Australia when the US has taken one of its citizens...http://inside.org.au/mamdouh-habib-who-knew-what-and-when/ Can I be a Canadian? Pleeasssee? -------------------------- Observing in the press recently that Sweden has been involved in a couple of known instances of 'rendition', passing human beings over the to the US to be dealt with in a US kind of way, I wondered whether Australia is known to engage in this practice. I couldn't find any cases of handing people over to the US, but there are a couple of infamous instances of the Australian government failing to support citizens who have been taken by the US. One is Hicks and the other is Habib. You aren't going to read his story, I didn't and hardly anybody has. But you can see the gory lowlights here: http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/07/essay-the-many-renditions-of-mamdouh-habib/ It's written by Richard Neville, an Australian name that will be well known to the Brits. As he speaks out against rendition here, it is worth recalling that in the past in the UK he was defended by Geoffrey Robertson who is at the moment defending Assange against the possible threat of being given to the US via Sweden. We may in general become a cynical lot, happy to be well-fed and not care the way we used to, but here are two guys who do still care and are still doing the right thing. It's hard not to cheer for them. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In the early hours of 2 October 2001, Mamdouh Habib and two young German men were taken off a bus travelling between Quetta and Karachi by Pakistani security officers. It was shortly after 9/11, and only days before the Americans attacked Afghanistan. The Pakistanis, at the behest of the Americans, were rounding up anyone who in any way looked suspicious, interrogating them and passing them onto the Americans. The unlucky ones were then 'rendered' to a third-party country to be further interrogated and tortured, where they either disappeared for good or were sent to Guantanamo Bay, branded as terrorists with no legal rights. This is what happened to Mamdouh Habib. It took nearly three-and-a-half years before he was eventually released without charge from Guantanamo and reunited with his wife and four children in Australia. The original American draft charges had accused him of attending al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, and of training the 9-11 terrorists in martial arts. They even suggested he was meant to have been on one of the 9-11 hijacked planes. The true story of the kidnapping and incarceration of Mamdouh Habib first in Egypt then in Guantanamo is told here by him for the first time. The complicity of the Australian government in his abduction to Egypt is revealed, and its subsequent neglect of him while in Guantanamo. His relationship with other well-known alleged terrorists, including meeting David Hicks both in Afghanistan and in Guantanamo, also comes to light. My Story is also the account of a young Egyptian man who migrated to Australia in 1982 in order to settle down and to make a good life for himself. It is about his marriage to Maha, a remarkable young woman originally from Lebanon, who was to become his steadfast companion, and who throughout the years of ordeal tirelessly fought for the release of her husband and the restitution of his name. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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19/1/11 Update: a piece contrasting the behaviour of Canada and Australia when the US has taken one of its citizens...http://inside.org.au/mamdouh-habib-who-knew-what-and-when/ Can I be a Canadian? Pleeasssee?
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Observing in the press recently that Sweden has been involved in a couple of known instances of 'rendition', passing human beings over the to the US to be dealt with in a US kind of way, I wondered whether Australia is known to engage in this practice.
I couldn't find any cases of handing people over to the US, but there are a couple of infamous instances of the Australian government failing to support citizens who have been taken by the US. One is Hicks and the other is Habib.
You aren't going to read his story, I didn't and hardly anybody has. But you can see the gory lowlights here:
http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/07/essay-the-many-renditions-of-mamdouh-habib/
It's written by Richard Neville, an Australian name that will be well known to the Brits. As he speaks out against rendition here, it is worth recalling that in the past in the UK he was defended by Geoffrey Robertson who is at the moment defending Assange against the possible threat of being given to the US via Sweden.
We may in general become a cynical lot, happy to be well-fed and not care the way we used to, but here are two guys who do still care and are still doing the right thing. It's hard not to cheer for them.