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...December of 2001, U.S. agents arranged to have a German citizen flown to a Syrian jail called the Palestine Branch, renowned for its use of torture, and later offered to pass written questions to Syrian interrogators to pose to the prisoner, according to a secret German intelligence report shown to TIME on Wednesday. The report is described in the new book Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program by British investigative journalist Stephen Grey. The complex arrangement was part of the CIA's sprawling practice of extraordinary renditions, the secret transfer of terror suspects to hidden prisons...
...prisoner flown to Syria in December 2001 was no ordinary criminal: 42-year-old Mohammad Haydr Zammar, a businessman who had immigrated to Germany and was living in Hamburg, was wanted by U.S. officials on suspicion of helping to recruit some of the 9/11 hijackers, as part of Al Qaeda's Hamburg cell. According to the report, after a U.S. request Zammar was arrested in Morocco by local police. He was questioned in Morocco by CIA officials and then flown to Damascus; the intelligence report does not specify which aircraft transferred...
...Mayer with a grin. If anything, life is even more hectic for Mayer than for his overachieving classmates. In addition to pre-med orientation meetings and Life Sciences classes, Mayer is conducting telephone conferences with Michnewicz to go over last-minute edits on the script, and he will be flown down to Washington D.C. for the play’s premiere...
...Pictures owner Sumner Redstone ended the studio’s 14-year relationship with the star. He might not be a celebrity per se, but John Mark Karr certainly made headlines after his shocking confession to accidentally killing Jon Benet Ramsey ten years ago. Apprehended in Bangkok in August, flown first class to Colorado, and outfitted in new duds, Karr was eventually acquitted of murder charges after DNA tests were negative. Karr is now being held for charges of owning child pornography. On a more somber note, environmentalist Steve Irwin, the “Crocodile Hunter,” died...
...running routes in the afternoon heat. "We're gonna have fun with it," James said. "He prides himself on taking care of his body. Lucky he wasn't in his hyperbaric chamber." Owens is a big fan of the chambers for healing sore and injured muscles; he's even flown a portable unit to away games...