August 22, 2009
SAME POLICY, JUST LESS DANGEROUS PERPS:
Lebanese man is target of first rendition under Obama : Contractor Raymond Azar is arrested in Afghanistan, hooded, stripped and flown to the U.S. His alleged crime? Bribery. A human rights activist calls the case 'bizarre.' ( Bob Drogin, August 22, 2009, LA Times)
A Lebanese citizen being held in a detention center here was hooded, stripped naked for photographs and bundled onto an executive jet by FBI agents in Afghanistan in April, making him the first known target of a rendition during the Obama administration.Posted by Orrin Judd at August 22, 2009 6:55 AMUnlike terrorism suspects who were secretly snatched by the CIA and harshly interrogated and imprisoned overseas during the George W. Bush administration, Raymond Azar was flown to this Washington suburb for a case involving inflated invoices.
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