BBC: Rendition and the rights of the individual

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk The outrage evident in the Council of Europe report on the secret CIA rendition programme emerges from a clash between the methods used by the United States to break up al-Qaeda networks The report's author, Swiss Senator Dick Marty "While the states of the Old World have dealt with these threats primarily by means of existing institutions and legal systems, the United States appears to have made a fundamentally different choice: "This legal approach is utterly alien to the European tradition and sensibility, and is clearly contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." The most serious charge Mr Marty makes in his report is against Poland and Romania, both of which he all but accuses of having allowed the CIA to run black sites. It therefore built not only Guantanamo Bay, but a series of "black sites", or secret prisons around the world. senior al-Qaeda suspects were held and interrogated, sometimes by so-called "enhanced" methods