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- Ahmed Agiza [r]: An Egyptian citizen, rendered to Egypt by Swedish and U.S. personnel, where he was imprisoned for a 1999 in absentia conviction of belonging to an illegal organization, Egyptian Islamic Jihad; the removal from Sweden did not involve extradition and may have violated the refoulement provision of the Convention against Torture. [e]
- Albania [r]: Republic in south-eastern Europe (population c. 3.6 million; capital Tirana), with a long Adriatic coastline on the west and land borders with Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Greece. [e]
- Alien Torts Claims Act [r]: Originally introduced in 1789, a U.S. law that has become active in using the U.S. court to seek redress for actions committed outside the U.S., but in violation of U.S. or international law and where the defendants have a relationship to the U.S. [e]
- American Civil Liberties Union [r]: American political action group founded in 1920 for protection of civil liberties. [e]
- Binyam Ahmed Mohammad [r]: an Ethiopian who was held in secret CIA custody, and later faced charges before a Guantanamo military commission. [e]
- Boeing [r]: US-based company making aircraft and spacecraft. [e]
- David Miliband [r]: (1965–) UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. [e]
- El-Masri v. Tenet [r]: A case involving extrajudicial detention, in which the U.S. government stopped a lawsuit by a person captured due to an error in identification, by invoking the state secrets privilege; the dismissal was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and has been as a strong precedent for a wide interpretation of the privilege [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: Policies and practices relevant to detention in intelligence and military facilities, the latter when no prisoner of war status was granted [e]
- Extraordinary rendition, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: Policy, legal interpretation and examples, under the George W. Bush Administration, of extraordinary rendition, U.S., primarily related to the Administration's war on terror [e]
- Extraordinary rendition, U.S. [r]: General United States policy and laws regarding the transfer of a person of interest to another country, without going through formal international extradition but possibly through other administrative hearings [e]
- George Tenet [r]: Director of Central Intelligence from July 1997 to July 2004, heading the United States intelligence community and the Central Intelligence Agency [e]
- Haji Bismullah [r]: An Afghan citizen, who, while working for a pro-US Afghan provincial government, was denounced, held in Guantanamo Bay detention camp for six years, and released in January 2009 as "no longer an enemy combatant" [e]
- Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: The policies and practices authorized for interrogation of suspected terrorists by the United States Department of Defense and the United States intelligence community during the George W. Bush Administration [e]
- Khaled el-Masri [r]: A naturalized German citizen, who had been in U.S. extrajudicial detention, released, and sued the U.S. but had his case, el-Masri v. Tenet, rejected based on the state secrets privilege [e]
- Kuwait [r]: Country on the Persian Gulf bordering Iraq to the north and Saudi Arabia to the south; population of 2.5 million. [e]
- Mohamed et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. [r]: A civil lawsuit, filed against a Central Intelligence Agency contractor that supported the logistics of extraordinary rendition, which has been dismissed when the government invoked the state secrets privilege; appellate review was requested in late 2008 [e]
- Morocco [r]: An Arab monarchy of western North Africa, nonaligned but generally moderate, with a slow-growing economy [e]
- Torture [r]: The infliction of mental or physical pain, for punishment or as an interrogation technique. [e]
- U.S. Department of Justice [r]: The Cabinet level department headed by the Attorney General, which supervises the FBI and 58 other Agencies. [e]
