This story of U.S. rendition of foreign nationals has over 1700 hits in news.google this morning:
http://news.google.com/?ncl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4502986.stm&hl=enThis is a big story.
Rendition: Tales of torture
The US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, has defended the US against allegations that it ran a network of "ghost flights" and secret prisons around the world where terror suspects could be interrogated with little concern for international law.
The BBC News website profiles some of the detainees who say they were victims of the US' secret "extraordinary rendition" policy.
The case of Khaled al-Masri, 41, a German citizen allegedly handed over to the US by Macedonian agents in 2004, helped spark controversy over so-called "ghost flights" and secret "torture prisons".
Kuwaiti-born Mr Masri was seized close to the Macedonian border as he headed towards Albania following what he has described as a row with his wife in Germany. After being held for three weeks in the Macedonian capital, Skopje, Mr Masri says he was beaten, handcuffed, blindfolded, drugged, and flown to a CIA prison in Afghanistan.
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