Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (55 page)

95
. Priest and Stephens, “Secret World.”

96
. See, inter alia, Dana Priest and Scott Higham, “At Guantanamo, a Prison Within a Prison; CIA Has Run a Secret Facility for Some Al-Qaeda Detainees, Officials Say,”
Washington Post,
December 17, 2004; Dana Priest, “Long-Term Plan Sought for Terror Suspects,”
Washington Post,
January 2, 2005; Priest and Stephens, “Secret World”; James Risen and Thorn Shanker, “Saddam Enters Shadowy Realm of Foreign Detainees,”
New York Times,
December 18, 2003; Inigo Gilmore and Robin Gedye, “Jordan ’Ghost’ Jail Is Holding Senior al-Qaeda Leaders,”
Telegraph
(London), October 14, 2004;
BBC News,
“Jordan Denies ’Secret U.S. Prison,’” October 14, 2004; Mayer, “Outsourcing Torture”; Jeffrey St. Clair, “The Road to Rendition: Torture Air, Incorporated,”
CounterPunch,
April 9-10,2005; Grey, “U.S. Accused of ’Torture Flights’”; Dana Priest,
Washington Post,
“CIA Holds Suspects in Secret Prisons,”
San Diego Union-Tribune,
November 2, 2005; Dana Priest and Josh White, “Policies on Terrorism Suspects Come Under Fire,”
Washington Post,
November 3, 2005; Editorial, “The Prison Puzzle,”
New York Times,
November 3, 2005; Carlotta Gall, “Rights Group Reports Afghanistan Torture,”
New York Times,
December 19, 2005; Reuters, “Poland Was Main CIA European Destination,” December 9, 2005; Tom Walker and Sarah Baxter, “Revealed: The Terror Prison U.S. Is Helping Build in Morocco,”
Sunday Times
(London), February 12, 2006.

97
. Quoted by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark,” [Afghanistan:] One Huge U.S. Jail,”
Guardian,
March 19, 2005,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1440836,00.html
. See also Ken Silverstein, “U.S., Jordan Forge Closer Ties in Covert War on Terrorism,”
Los Angeles Times,
November 11, 2005; Yossi Melman, “Jordanian Spy Agency Replaces Mossad as Key CIA Ally,”
Haaretz
(Tel Aviv), November 12, 2005.

98
. Mark Hosenball, “No Secrets: Eyes on the CIA,”
Newsweek,
March 7, 2005,
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/9261/printer
.

99
. Stephen Grey, “U.S. Accused of’Torture Flights’”; Dana Priest, “Jet Is an Open Secret in Terror War,”
Washington Post,
December 27, 2004; Farah Stockman, “Terror Suspects’ Torture Claims Have Mass. Link,”
Boston Globe,
November 29, 2004; John Crewdson, “Mysterious Jet Tied to Torture Flights,”
Chicago Tribune,
January 8, 2005. On Air America, see Alfred W. McCoy,
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
(Chicago:
Lawrence Hill Books, 1991);
http://www.air-america.org/index.html;
William M. Leary, “Supporting the ’Secret War’: CIA Air Operations in Laos, 1955-1974,” Central Intelligence Agency,
Studies in Intelligence,
Winter 1999-2000,
http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/winter99-00/art7.html.

100
. See
http://www.aahs-online.org/
. Cf. Chalmers Johnson, “A Survey of Lockheed Orion History,”
Journal of the American Aviation Historical Society
1, no. 1 (June 1956), pp. 4-7; and ibid., “Thirty Years of Lockheed Vegas,” 2, no. 1 (January-March 1957), pp. 1-35.

101
. Priest, “Open Secret.”

102
. See, for example,
http://www.airliners.net/
;
http://users.pandora.be/michel.vandaele/air1.htm
;
http://www.jetspotter.com/;http://www.planespotting.com/
(see also the links section on this Web site).

103
. Seth Hettena, Associated Press, “Navy Secretly Contracted Jets Used by CIA,”
San Francisco Chronicle,
September 24, 2005.

104
. Ibid.

105
. Tim Thursday, “CIA Torture Jet Sold in Attempted Cover Up,” Independent Media Centre Ireland, December 9, 2004, http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id-67864&print_page=true; Crewdson, “Mysterious Jets.”

106
. Hettena, “Navy Secretly Contracted Jets.”

107
. Scott Shane, Stephen Grey, and Ford Fessenden, “Detainee’s Suit Gains Support from Jet’s Log,”
New York Times,
March 30, 2005; Bob Herbert, “Torture, American Style,”
New York Times,
February 11, 2005; Mayer, “Outsourcing Torture”; Hilton, “800 lb Gorilla.”

108
. Scott Shane, Stephen Grey, and Margot Williams, “CIA Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights: Planes Owned by Shell Companies Move Suspects,”
New York Times,
May 31, 2005.

109
. Crewdson, “Mysterious Jets.”

110
. See “The Broken Promise,” transcript, TV4 Monday, 17th May 2004,”
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/may/Sweden.pdf.

111
. In addition to the TV4 transcript, see Grey, “U.S. Accused of Torture”; Stockman, “Torture Claims Have Mass. Link”;
CBS News,
“Flying Suspects to Torture”; Tim Reid, “Flight to Torture: Where Abuse Is Contracted Out,”
Times Online,
March 26, 2005,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/01-10889-1542390-10889,00.html
; and Cobain, Grey, and Norton-Taylor, “Destination Cairo.”

112
. See Tom Engelhardt, “The CIA’s La Dolce Vita War on Terror,” TomDispatch .com, July 21, 2005,
http://www.tomdispatch.com/indexprint.mhtml/?pid=7789
.

113
. Aidan Lewis, “Italy Judge Orders Arrest of 13 CIA Agents,” Associated Press, June 24, 2005; Barbara McMahon, “Italians Hunt Covert CIA Snatch Squad,”
Observer,
June 26, 2005; “European Warrant Issued for Arrest of CIA Agents,”
Corriere della Serra
(Italy), June 27, 2005; Victor L. Simpson, “Italians Discuss Purported CIA Case,” Associated Press, July 28, 2005; Simpson, “Italy to Seek Extradition of CIA Agents,” Associated Press, June 28, 2005; John Crewdson and Alessandra Maggiorani, “Prosecutors in Italy File Request to Extradite 22 CIA Operatives,”
Chicago Tribune,
November 10, 2005.

114
. Craig Whitlock, “Europeans Investigate CIA Role in Abductions,”
Washington Post,
March 13, 2005; John Crewdson and Tom Hundley, “Abducted Imam Aided CIA Ally,”
Chicago Tribune,
July 3, 3005.

115
. Daniel Williams, “Italy Probes Agency’s Link to CIA in Cleric’s Abduction,”
Washington Post,
May 12, 2006.

116
. Crewdson and Hundley, “Abducted Imam”; “Italy Asks U.S. to Explain CIA’s Role in Kidnapping,”
Bloomberg News,
June 30, 2005. Because of the involvement of Ramstein Air Base, the Germans are also investigating this abduction: “Deutsche Justiz ermittelt gegen US-Geheimdienst,”
Spiegel Online,
November 12, 2005,
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,384681,00.html
.

117
. Craig Whitlock, “Italians Detail Lavish CIA Operation,”
Washington Post,
June 26, 2005; Tracy Wilkinson, “CIA Said to Leave Trail in Abduction,”
Los Angeles Times,
June 26, 2005.

118
. Simpson, “CIA Case”; “European Warrant,”
Corriere della Serra.

119
. Tim Weiner, “Langley, We Have a Problem,”
New York Times,
May 14, 2006.

120
. Thomas Powers, “Spy vs. Spy,”
New York Times,
May 10, 2006.

121
. Quoted by Weiner, “Langley.”

4:
U.S. MILITARY BASES IN OTHER PEOPLE’S COUNTRIES

1
. George Cahlink, “Pentagon Certifies Need for Base Closures,”
Government Executive Magazine,
March 23, 2004.

2
. See Laurence M. Vance, “The Problem with BRAC,”
LewRockwell.com
, September 17, 2005.

3
. See maps of the Roman and British Empires in “The Next American Empire,”
Economist,
March 18, 2004.

4
. Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Installations and Environment),
Base Structure Report,
Fiscal Year 2005, p. DOD-78.

5
. Amy Holmes, “The Bases of Empire: The Impact of U.S. Military Installations on Germany and Turkey,” Institute for Global Studies, Johns Hopkins University, February 19, 2004, pp. 7, 17-18.

6
. Arkin,
Code Names,
pp. 6-7.

7
. “Enough Time for Iraq to Implement UN Resolutions—[Foreign Minister Marwan] Muasher,”
Jordan Times,
August 11, 2002; and Arkin,
Code Names,
pp. 4,10.

8
. Mark Sappenfield and Patrik Jonsson, “As Military Realigns Bases, the South Wins,”
Christian Science Monitor,
May 16, 2005.

9
. William M. Arkin, “War Plans Meaner, Not Leaner,”
Los Angeles Times,
March 21, 2004.

10
. Martin Sieff, “Analysis: Bush Pushes Global Force Reform,” Linked Press International, November 25, 2003; Alan Bock, “Repositioning on the Titanic,”
Antiwar.com
, August 20, 2004; David Isenberg, “Reshaping Washington’s Global Footprint,”
Asia Times,
August 20, 2004,
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FH20AaO1.html
.

11
. The White House, “President Speaks at Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention,”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040816-12.html
.

12
. See Douglas J. Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Department of Defense,
Strengthening U.S. Global Defense Posture,
Report to Congress, September 2004,
http://www.defensecommunities.org/ResourceCenter/Global_Posture.pdf
.

13
. “Pentagon to Close 35 Percent of Overseas Bases; ’Forward Operating Sites’ to Replace Cold War-era Bases,” Associated Press, September 23, 2004.

14
. Jan Erickson and Leonard Tengco, “Congress Endangers Military Women’s Health with Ban,” National Organization for Women, May 28, 2003,
http://www.now.org/issues/military/052803ban.htmPprintable
; Johnson,
Sorrows of Empire,
pp. 105-6.

15
. Diana B. Henriques, “Temptation Near for Military’s Problem Gamblers,”
New York Times,
October 19, 2005.

16
. Quoted by Michael T. Klare, “Imperial Reach: The Pentagon’s New Basing Strategy,”
Nation,
April 25, 2005, pp. 13-14.

17
. Mark Mazzetti, “Pax Americana: Dispatched to Distant Outposts, U.S. Forces Confront the Perils of an Unruly World,”
U.S. News & World Report,
October 6, 2003. Also see Eric Schmitt, “Pentagon Seeking New Access Pacts for Africa Bases,”
New York Times,
July 5, 2003.

18
. Commission on Review of Overseas Military Facility Structure,
Report to President and Congress,
Washington, DC, May 9, 2005,
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/obc.pdf
, p. 7.

19
. Edward Harris, Associated Press, “U.S. Green Berets Train Mali Troops to Guard Desert Interior Against Terrorists, Bandits,”
San Francisco Chronicle,
March 17, 2004; Martin Plaut, “U.S. to Increase African Military Presence,”
BBC News,
March 23, 2004; Michael Peel, “U.S. Urged to Turn Attention to Oil-Rich States in Africa,”
Financial Times,
April 1, 2004.

20
. Pepe Escobar, “The Algerian Connection,”
Asia Times,
July 29, 2005; Commission on Review of Overseas Military Facility Structure,
Report,
pp. Fl 1, F12, H11.

21
. Vernon Loeb, “New Bases Reflect Shift in Military,”
Washington Post,
June 9, 2003.

22
. Mark Sappenfield, “Pentagon Stirs Tensions in Foreign Base Shuffle,”
Christian Science Monitor,
August 1, 2005,
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0801/p02s01-usmi.htm
.

23
. Thomas Donnelly and Vance Serchuk, “Toward a Global Cavalry: Overseas Rebasing and Defense Transformation,”
AEI National Security Outlook,
July 1, 2003,
http://www.aei.org/include/pub_print.asp?pubID=17783.

24
. David Morris, “Senators Seek to Shutter Overseas Military Bases,”
GovExec.com
, April 29, 2003; Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein, “Senators Hutchison and Feinstein Introduce Legislation Creating an Overseas Military Base Commission,” April 29, 2003; “S. 949, The Overseas Military Facility Structure Review Act,”
Congressional Record
(April 29, 2003), p. S5495; Office of Senator Tim Johnson (Democrat from South Dakota), “Johnson Urges Study of Overseas Military Bases,” May 2, 2003.