US Sponsored Secret Renditions in East Africa “A network of U.S. allies in East Africa secretly have transferred to prisons in Somalia and Ethiopia as many as 150 people who were captured in Kenya while fleeing the recent war in Somalia, according to human rights advocates here. Kenyan authorities made the arrests as part of a U.S.-backed, four-nation military campaign in December and January against Somalia’s Islamist militias, which Bush administration officials have linked to al-Qaida.” (McClatchy)Iraqi Who Promoted False Intel. Protected By Germany “The Iraqi defector known as Curveball, whose fabricated stories of ‘mobile biological weapons labs’ helped lead the U.S. to war four years ago, is still being protected by the German intelligence service, an ABC News investigation has found. Intelligence sources, who provided ABCNews.com with the first known photo of the man, say he has been resettled in a small town near the Munich headquarters of the German service, which has continued to honor its original commitment made when he fled Iraq in 1999.” (ABC’s The Blotter)
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