Interview with
Trevor Paglen, author of
"Torture Taxi:
On the Trail of the
CIA's Rendition Flights"

Maher Arar: Kidnapped From
JFK Airport to Syria
The True Story of innocent Canadian
Citizen Maher Arar, who was sent
by the Bush Administration to Syria
where he was torture for nearly a year.

Torture Survivor
Maher Arar Accepts the
Letelier-Moffitt Award
Maher Arar's award acceptance (shown at the National Press Club for Institute for Policy Studies' 30th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards) describes his extradition and torture in Syria at the discretion of the U.S. government. Delivered by video from Canada, as U.S. officials denied his entry to the country.

Maher Arar on
Democracy Now!
Extraordinary Rendition
and Ghost Plane
October 19th 2006

The True Story of innocent Canadian
Citizen Maher Arar, who was sent
by the Bush Administration to Syria
where he was torture for nearly a year.

We Knew Damn Well
That Maher Arar
Would Be Tortured, Says
Senator Patrick Leahy
January 18th, 2007 Thursday

Senator Patrick Leahy responds forcefully to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' lying weasel words about how the US had assurances from Syria that Maher Arar would not be tortured if the US sent him there. Also, note that in spite of the fiery rhetoric, there have been no policy changes.

"We knew damn well if he went to Canada he wouldn't be tortured. He'd be held, he'd be investigated. We also knew damn well if he went to Syria he'd be tortured. And it's beneath the dignity of this country, a country that has always been a beacon of human rights to send somebody to another country to be tortured. You know and I know that it's happened a number of times in the past 5 years by this country." -- Senator Patrick Leahy

(Unfortunately, the last 10 seconds of this video has been edited. See also the CNN video where they broadcast Leahy's comments here...)

Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture
and Disappearances in
the "War on Terror"

Khaled El-Masri - Victim of C.I.A. Rendition
CIA kidnap victim Khaled El-Masri and attorneys speak outside a Virginia federal court after a hearing in the ACLU's challenge to 'extraordinary rendition.' El-Masri was abducted, detained and flown to a secret torture facility by CIA operatives, who interrogated him for four months before realizing he had been kidnapped by mistake and releasing him in the dark of night on a hill in Albania. To learn more about his case and secret CIA kidnapping, go to www.aclu.org/rendition

CIA Tortured a German Citizen - The Story of Khaled El-Masri
CIA kidnap victim Khaled El-Masri and attorneys speak outside a Virginia federal court after a hearing in the ACLU's challenge to 'extraordinary rendition.' El-Masri was abducted, detained and flown to a secret torture facility by CIA operatives, who interrogated him for four months before realizing he had been kidnapped by mistake and releasing him in the dark of night on a hill in Albania. To learn more about his case and secret CIA kidnapping, go to www.aclu.org/rendition

Khaled El Masri at
the White House
An exclusive Q&A with ACLU client and CIA kidnap victim Khaled El-Masri and his attorneys. El-Masri was abducted, detained and flown to a secret torture facility by CIA operatives, who interrogated him for four months before realizing he had been kidnapped by mistake and releasing him in the dark of night on a hill in Albania. To learn more about his case and secret CIA kidnapping, go to www.aclu.org/rendition

U.S. Govt. Says Torture & Warrantless Searches are Legal
Bush and other top officials in the United States Government flat out lie to the American people about what the Constitution says, and promote torture and warrantless searches as "reasonable".
This is an excerpt from Alex Jones' new
must-see documentary, "Terrorstorm".
You can watch it in its entirety here...

BBC Report on
CIA Torture Flights

In this BBC news report, Bush declares
that the US abides by the law, and says:
"We do not 'render' to countries that torture."

Battle of Algiers (1965)
Short Clip
Directed by
Gillo Pontecorvo
In this scene from Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 film, French Colonel Mathieu addresses the media, who want to know about his program of torture.
Mathieu asks the important question:

Should France stay in Algeria? If yes, then you must accept all the consequences. What follows are scenes of the French torturing Algerians.

Read Alfred Memmi's 1965 book about the French occupation of Algeria, "The Colonizer and the Colonized" to learn how colonization and occupation destroys the humanity of both the occupier and the occupied.
Warning: Scenes of torture depicted!