[Peace-discuss] Obama administration hides torture

[C. G. Estabrook]

      [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]


      Rights Group: CIA Rendition Base Under Mogadishu Presidential Palace
      <http://news.antiwar.com/2011/09/09/rights-group-cia-rendition-base-under-mogadishu-presidential-palace/>


        Somali Transitional Govt Rejects Report

by Jason Ditz, September 09, 2011
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The Somali "transitional" government today dismissed reports from British human 
rights group Reprieve 
<http://www.reprieve.org.uk/press/2011_08_31_rendition_documents/> 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.

Prime Minister Abdilweli Mohammed Ali rejected the notion that there was a base 
under the palace, insisting that "I do not have that information and that 
information does not exist <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14850581>." 
He did, however, insist the US was helping "improve the security situation" in 
their territory.

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.

The CIA was already confirmed to have a secret walled compound within the 
Mogadishu international airport 
<http://www.thenation.com/print/article/161936/cias-secret-sites-somalia>, 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."

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.

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