- US envoys being called in to explain CIA torture flights
have interesting backgrounds. Two of the several U.S. ambassadors in Europe
being called in by foreign ministries to explain the presence of CIA "torture"
flights in the host countries where they are posted have some interesting
backgrounds. For example, U.S. ambassador to Estonia Adona Zofia Wos has
the following biography on the State Department web site: "Ambassador
Wos is the daughter of Paul Zenon Wos, who is a survivor of Flossenburg
Concentration Camp, former member of the Polish Home Army (AK) and recipient
of "Righteous Among the Nations" medal from Yad Vashem, among
other distinguished awards. As a child of a survivor, Ambassador Wos is
passionate about presenting and preserving full and accurate information
about the Polish experience during World War II. On September 11, 2001,
Ambassador Wos sponsored, organized and coordinated the largest educational
program in North Carolina on the Polish experience in World War II. Participants
included the most prestigious historians and authors in the United States
on Polish history, as well as survivors of concentration and slave labor
camps, members of the Home Army, and journalists. Despite the September
11 attacks, more than 2,000 people attended this program. In 2002, President
George W. Bush appointed Ambassador Wos to serve on the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council. She was re-appointed to serve on the Council in 2004."
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- Similarly, U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands Clifford
Sobel's State Department biography states he, "was a delegate to the
Republican National Conventions in 1996, and in 2000, and served on the
Platform Committee and the Sub-Committee on Foreign Policy in 2000. He
served as the New Jersey financial chairman of the primary and presidential
campaigns for then-Governor George W. Bush. In 1998, he accompanied Governor
Bush on a fact-finding mission to Israel. In his home state of New Jersey,
Ambassador Sobel is a member of the Board of the New Jersey Performing
Arts Center and served on the executive committees of Prosperity New Jersey,
a state committee for the growth of New Jersey, and of the United Jewish
Federation of Metrowest NJ."
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- Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, the US ambassador to Finland
during 2003, when a CIA plane landed at Helsinki's Vantaa airport, went
on the chair America's "oldest and most trusted humanitarian organization,"
the American Red Cross. The President of Finland awarded her the Commander
Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion for "humanitarian work involving
the advancement of entrepreneurship, child protection and health initiatives."
As is the case with Wos in Estonia, McElveen Hunter, also a North Carolina
native, has close ties to Sen. Elizabeth Dole, having served as her chief
fundraiser for her abortive presidential campaign in 2000.
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- Too bad people like these so-called "do gooders"
would not be more strenuously opposed to the use of their host nations,
especially Estonia and the Netherlands, as weigh stations for transporting
tortured prisoners. But then again, some people have neither shame nor
memories.
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- Meanwhile, EUROCONTROL, the system that monitors all
flights over European airspace is having its records throughly checked
and matched against European satellite intelligence photos of airfields
and nearby prison sites. There is also the possibility that European law
enforcement personnel could, if they discover the presence of secret prisons,
storm them by force to free prisoners held by U.S. and contractor personnel.
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- http://waynemadsenreport.com/
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