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December 27, 2005
Envoy Clarifies Denial U.S. Sends Fighters to Syria to be Tortured
Times Online reported December 26, 2005 that, "The American Embassy in London has been forced to issue a statement clarifying remarks made by its ambassador after he denied that the United States was involved in removing terrorist suspects to Syria."
"Robert Tuttle [the U.S. ambassador] said in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today program that there was no evidence that suspects were taken to Syria under the controversial process of "extraordinary rendition," The Times added. "However, in a statement issued to the program after the interview was recorded last Thursday, [December 22, 2005] the embassy acknowledged that there had been media reports of a rendition to Syria, although it refused to comment on the case."
See "US forced to backtrack on ambassador's Syria gaffe" for more.
Posted by Munir Umrani at December 27, 2005 03:27 PM
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