On Obama's Watch: First Rendition - Raymond Azar of Lebanon

By GottaLaff

Sigh. I will give you an excerpt from a post I hope you read, link you to my series of posts on all things rendition/detainees, shake my head slowly, and then go back to business as usual:

Imagine the shock when Lebanese husband/father, construction manager, grade school grad, 45 year old Raymond Azar

was seized by "at least eight" heavily armed FBI agents in Kabul, Afghanistan, where they had traveled for a meeting to discuss the status of one of his company's U.S. government contracts. The trip ended with Azar alighting in manacles from a Gulfstream V executive jet in Manassas, Virginia, where he was formally arrested and charged in a federal antitrust probe.,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/11/target-of-obama-era-rendi_n_256499.html

All happening on on April 7, 2009. Is this witness protection? Or rendition? You be the judge.

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All my previous posts on this subject matter can be found here; That link includes one specific to only Fayiz al-Kandari's story here. Here are audio and video interviews with Lt. Col. Wingard, one by David Shuster, one by Ana Marie Cox, and more. My guest commentary at BuzzFlash is here.

If you are inclined to help rectify these injustices: Twitterers, use the hashtag #FreeFayiz. We have organized a team to get these stories out. If you are interested in helping Fayiz out, e-mail me at The Political Carnival, address in sidebar to the right; or tweet me at @GottaLaff.

If you'd like to see other ways you can take action, go here and scroll down to the end of the article.

Then read Jane Mayer's book The Dark Side. You'll have a much greater understanding of why I post endlessly about this, and why I'm all over the CIA deception issues, too.

More of Fayiz's story here, at Answers.com.

H/t: DMiller23