Editing Extraordinary rendition (section)

=== Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad case ===
{{Main|Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad}}
A story in the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' in 2005 seems{{vague|date=January 2022}} to corroborate the claims of "torture by proxy." It mentions the attorneys for [[Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad]], a detainee held by the Pentagon at Guantanamo Bay, filed a petition to prevent his being transferred to foreign countries. According to the petition's description of a redacted classified [[United States Department of Defense|Defense Department]] memo from 2004, its contents say  "officials suggested sending Ahmad to an unspecified foreign country that employed torture in order to increase chances of extracting information from him."

Mr Falkoff, representing Ahmad, continued: "There is only one meaning that can be gleaned from this short passage," the petition says. "The government believes that Mr. Ahmad has information that it wants but that it cannot extract without torturing him." The petition goes on to say that because torture is not allowed at Guantanamo, "the recommendation is that Mr. Ahmad should be sent to another country where he can be interrogated under torture."<ref name="LaTimes051208">{{Cite news
|last = Ken
|first = Silverstein
|title = Pentagon Memo on Torture-Motivated Transfer cited.
|newspaper = Los Angeles Times
|date = 8 December 2005
|url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-dec-08-na-torture8-story.html
}}</ref>
In a report, regarding the allegations of CIA flights, on 13 December 2005, the rapporteur and Chair of the [[Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe]]'s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Swiss councillor [[Dick Marty]], concluded: "The elements we have gathered so far tend to reinforce the credibility of the allegations concerning the transport and temporary detention of detainees—outside all judicial procedure—in European countries."<ref name="Bbc051213">{{cite news | title=CIA abduction claims 'credible' | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4524864.stm | access-date=18 December 2005 |publisher=BBC News | date=13 December 2005 }}</ref>
In a press conference in January 2006, he stated ''"he was personally convinced the US had undertaken illegal activities in Europe in transporting and detaining prisoners."''<ref name="Bbc060114">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4611518.stm | title=Europe 'complicit over CIA jails' |publisher=BBC News | date=14 January 2006 | access-date=7 September 2006 }}</ref>