Barack Obama Grants CIA Permission To Retain Right To Carry Out Renditions

Forced removals: hundreds of terrorism suspects have been transferred by the
US to prisons in countries with questionable human rights records

From Times Online:

The banner headlines greeting President Obama’s decision to close the detention centre at Guantánamo Bay and secret CIA prisons may have concealed how he has retained one of the most controversial weapons in the War on Terror.

Under executive orders signed on January 22, the CIA appears to have preserved its authority to carry out renditions – by which hundreds of terrorist suspects have been abducted and transferred to prisons in countries with questionable human rights records such as Egypt, Morocco or Jordan.

The measure, disclosed by the Los Angeles Times yesterday, gives some indication of how Mr Obama’s promise of change may be slower to be realised than once hoped, with the new Administration coming under concerted attack across a range of issues.

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My Comment: War News Updates discussed this extensively last week, the European press has caught on to this story .... but the U.S. Press is still asleep. President Obama has clearly left open the option to rendered hard nosed Al Qaeda and other terrorist leaders to prisons in other countries that the U.S. has close relations with.

Most of these future rendered prisoners will probably go to Afghanistan .... more specifically the Air Force base at Bagram outside of Kabul. They will be kept there until the legal status of Gitmo's detainees can be figured out.

Update: Barack Obama to allow anti-terror rendition to continue -- The Telegraph