Delivered Into Enemy Hands - Human Rights Watch

“He asked me: ‘Do you
They drove for what felt like a very long time. Then they
put him in a place where he was left alone. He said he
was again put through the same CIA rendition transportation
procedure as before. 241 know who brought you
here?’ I didn’t want to
say anything. He said
He was able to loosen the
headphones a bit this time, and though he was beaten
‘The Americans brought for it, they did not tighten the headphones again, so he
you here. It’s all over was able to hear a little. Then they put him in another car
now. There is coopera- and drove him to a plane. They put him in the plane, but
tion between us and the
this time he was bound to a chair instead of to a bed. He
Americans.’ I was sure
said the flight took a very long time. Every now and then
someone would come around and put something on his
that was the case, but finger to check him. They stopped someplace to refuel.
then he just confirmed it He could tell they were at an airport because he could
for me.”
hear other planes, and he could tell they were refueling
because he felt the movement of the refueling machinery.
Because the flight took so long, he was sure he was being taken to Guantanamo, but in
fact he was taken to Libya.
Madaghi told Human Rights Watch that Musa Kusa came to see him about two weeks after
he arrived:
“He asked me: ‘Do you know who brought you here?’ I didn’t want to say
anything. He said ‘The Americans brought you here. It’s all over now. There
is cooperation between us and the Americans.’ I was sure that was the case,
but then he just confirmed it for me.”
Some Eurocontrol flight data on file with Human Rights Watch corroborated Madaghi’s
belief that the United States rendered him to Libya. The flight data states that a CIA-linked
Gulfstream V, registration N8068V (formerly N379P), used in other CIA renditions, 242 filed a
241 See text box, “CIA Rendition Transportation Procedures,” above.
242 The aircraft N8068V/N379P was owned from 2001 to at least 2004 by a US company called Premier Executive Transport
Service (Premier) and operated by pilots employed by Aero Contractors Ltd. (Aero) in Smithfield, North Carolina—companies
with known ties to the CIA. Joby Warrick,“Ten years later, CIA ‘rendition’ program still divides N.C. town,” Washington Post,
February 9, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/ten-years-later-cia-rendition-program-still-
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