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flight plan to go into Nouakchott, Mauritania on March 25, 2004 at 1:22 am local time (from
Washington, DC, via the Canary Island of Tenerife, presumably for refueling). This is around
the time that Madaghi said he was taken to Morocco. The data also shows a plan was filed
to fly out immediately to Rabat, Morocco, at 2:34 am, and to land in Rabat at 4:52 am. The
pilots then filed a plan to return to Washington (again, via Tenerife). The same Eurocontrol
flight data on file with Human Rights Watch also shows that CIA-linked Gulfstream IV,
registration N85VM, used in other CIA renditions, 243 filed a flight plan to go into Rabat on
May 4, 2004 (from Washington via Palma Majorca), arriving at 10:52 PM, and then to
Misrata in Libya. The flight appears to have stopped and refueled at a military airport in
Italy en route to Misrata on or about May 5, 2004—the same day that Madaghi said he was
returned to Libya by the US.
Madaghi said he was not physically abused in Libya but that his conditions of confinement
were still very difficult. He was first held in Tajoura prison for about one year, in solitary
confinement in a 1.8 x 1.8 meter cell. He was not allowed to speak to any other prisoners
during this time. He was then moved to Abu Salim for a few weeks, where he said the
conditions were worse than Tajoura and the cell smaller. He was then taken to al Nasser
bureau for another few weeks. He said his cell there was the worst of all: very dirty and tiny,
about the size of a mattress. It had no windows and no bed, just a blanket on the concrete
floor. He was then in Ain Zara for another year, from May 2005 until June 2006, and finally
in Abu Salim for nearly five more years. After two years in detention, he was charged with
trying to overthrow the government, given a summary trial, and then sentenced to life in
prison. This sentence was later reduced to seven years, then to four, but he remained in
custody after the four years were over. He was not released until the uprising against
Gaddafi began on February 16, 2011.
divides-nc-town/2012/01/23/gIQAwrAU2Q_story.html (accessed August 28, 2012); See also “Europe: Pending Questions on
CIA Activities in Europe,” Human Rights Watch news release, February 21, 2006,
http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/02/20/europe-pending-questions-cia-activities-europe.
243 The airplane N85VM has been firmly linked to the rendition of an Egyptian cleric, Abu Omar, from Italy to Egypt in 2003,
via the US military base in Ramstein, Germany. Eurocontrol data reveal that the airplane traveled from Ramstein Air Base in
Germany to Cairo on February 17, 2003, precisely the same date that Abu Omar was transported from Germany to Egypt. See
Peter Finn and Julie Tate, “N.Y. Billing Dispute Reveals Details of Secret CIA Rendition Flights,” Washington Post, August 30,
2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/ny-billing-dispute-reveals-details-of-secret-cia-renditionflights/2011/08/30/gIQAbggXsJ_story.html
(accessed July 31, 2012). The N85VM aircraft and its use by the CIA was the
subject of several earlier media investigations. See, for example, John Crewdson and Tom Hundley, “Jet’s Travels Cloaked in
Mystery,” Chicago Tribune, March 20, 2005, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-03-20/news/0503200504_1_31stfighter-wing-suspects-abu-omar
(accessed July 31, 2012).
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