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<h3>[And of course "lawless Somalia" is lawless because of 20
years of US efforts to make it that way - a story not reported
in the US. --CGE]<br>
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<h3><a
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Group: CIA Rendition Base Under Mogadishu Presidential Palace</a></h3>
<h4 id="pagesub">Somali Transitional Govt Rejects Report</h4>
<div class="details"> by Jason Ditz, September 09, 2011 </div>
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<p>The Somali “transitional” government today dismissed reports
from <a
href="http://www.reprieve.org.uk/press/2011_08_31_rendition_documents/">British
human rights group Reprieve</a> that the CIA was using its
territory as a base for unlawful rendition of terror suspects.
Reprieve claims evidence that the CIA’s base is underneath the
Presidential Palace in Mogadishu.</p>
<p><img src="cid:part1.09090908.04070704@illinois.edu" alt=""
align="right" hspace="10" vspace="10">Prime Minister Abdilweli
Mohammed Ali rejected the notion that there was a base under the
palace, insisting that “<a
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14850581">I do
not have that information and that information does not exist</a>.”
He did, however, insist the US was helping “improve the security
situation” in their territory.</p>
<p>Reprieve reported its claims through the BBC, insisting that
they had evidence from multiple sources, including a man
kidnapped from Nairobi, Kenya and help in the underground
prison. He added that the guards were Somali but that Americans
had access to the prisoners whenever they wanted.</p>
<p>The CIA <a
href="http://www.thenation.com/print/article/161936/cias-secret-sites-somalia">was
already confirmed to have a secret walled compound within the
Mogadishu international airport</a>, and reported the
transitional government’s NSA was allowing them to operate “full
time” at their own underground prison, a testament to their
“strong counter-terrorism partnership.”</p>
<p>The US, needless to say, has not commented on the latest
allegations. Given the rendition program’s illegal implications,
however, it makes a lot of sense for the CIA to conduct as many
of its sordid activities as possible in lawless Somalia.</p>
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