| From: Louie_al-Arouri | 1/3/2005 10:01:17 AM | | | | | | Long-Term Plan Sought For Terror Suspects
By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 2, 2005; Page A01
Administration officials are preparing long-range plans for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists whom they do not want to set free or turn over to courts in the United States or other countries, according to intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials.
The Pentagon and the CIA have asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for potentially lifetime detentions, including for hundreds of people now in military and CIA custody whom the government does not have enough evidence to charge in courts. The outcome of the review, which also involves the State Department, would also affect those expected to be captured in the course of future counterterrorism operations.
"We've been operating in the moment because that's what has been required," said a senior administration official involved in the discussions, who said the current detention system has strained relations between the United States and other countries. "Now we can take a breath. We have the ability and need to look at long-term solutions."
One proposal under review is the transfer of large numbers of Afghan, Saudi and Yemeni detainees from the military's Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center into new U.S.-built prisons in their home countries. The prisons would be operated by those countries, but the State Department, where this idea originated, would ask them to abide by recognized human rights standards and would monitor compliance, the senior administration official said.
As part of a solution, the Defense Department, which holds 500 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, plans to ask Congress for $25 million to build a 200-bed prison to hold detainees who are unlikely to ever go through a military tribunal for lack of evidence, according to defense officials.
The new prison, dubbed Camp 6, would allow inmates more comfort and freedom than they have now, and would be designed for prisoners the government believes have no more intelligence to share, the officials said. It would be modeled on a U.S. prison and would allow socializing among inmates.
"Since global war on terror is a long-term effort, it makes sense for us to be looking at solutions for long-term problems," said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman. "This has been evolutionary, but we are at a point in time where we have to say, 'How do you deal with them in the long term?' "
The administration considers its toughest detention problem to involve the prisoners held by the CIA. The CIA has been scurrying since Sept. 11, 2001, to find secure locations abroad where it could detain and interrogate captives without risk of discovery, and without having to give them access to legal proceedings.
Little is known about the CIA's captives, the conditions under which they are kept -- or the procedures used to decide how long they are held or when they may be freed. That has prompted criticism from human rights groups, and from some in Congress and the administration, who say the lack of scrutiny or oversight creates an unacceptable risk of abuse.
Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), vice chairman of the House intelligence committee who has received classified briefings on the CIA's detainees and interrogation methods, said that given the long-term nature of the detention situation, "I think there should be a public debate about whether the entire system should be secret.
"The details about the system may need to remain secret," Harman said. At the least, she said, detainees should be registered so that their treatment can be tracked and monitored within the government. "This is complicated. We don't want to set up a bureaucracy that ends up making it impossible to protect sources and informants who operate within the groups we want to penetrate."
The CIA is believed to be holding fewer than three dozen al Qaeda leaders in prison. The agency holds most, if not all, of the top captured al Qaeda leaders, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Ramzi Binalshibh, Abu Zubaida and the lead Southeast Asia terrorist, Nurjaman Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali.
CIA detention facilities have been located on an off-limits corner of the Bagram air base in Afghanistan, on ships at sea and on Britain's Diego Garcia island in the Indian Ocean. The Washington Post reported last month that the CIA has also maintained a facility within the Pentagon's Guantanamo Bay complex, though it is unclear whether it is still in use.
In contrast to the CIA, the military produced and declassified hundreds of pages of documents about its detention and interrogation procedures after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. And the military detainees are guaranteed access to the International Committee of the Red Cross and, as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, have the right to challenge their imprisonment in federal court.
But no public hearings in Congress have been held on CIA detention practices, and congressional officials say CIA briefings on the subject have been too superficial and were limited to the chairman and vice chairman of the House and Senate intelligence committees.
The CIA had floated a proposal to build an isolated prison with the intent of keeping it secret, one intelligence official said. That was dismissed immediately as impractical.
One approach used by the CIA has been to transfer captives it picks up abroad to third countries willing to hold them indefinitely and without public proceedings. The transfers, called "renditions," depend on arrangements between the United States and other countries, such as Egypt, Jordan and Afghanistan, that agree to have local security services hold certain terror suspects in their facilities for interrogation by CIA and foreign liaison officers.
The practice has been criticized by civil liberties groups and others, who point out that some of the countries have human rights records that are criticized by the State Department in annual reports.
Renditions originated in the 1990s as a way of picking up criminals abroad, such as drug kingpins, and delivering them to courts in the United States or other countries. Since 2001, the practice has been used to make certain detainees do not go to court or go back on the streets, officials said.
"The whole idea has become a corruption of renditions," said one CIA officer who has been involved in the practice. "It's not rendering to justice, it's kidnapping."
But top intelligence officials and other experts, including former CIA director George J. Tenet in his testimony before Congress, say renditions are an effective method of disrupting terrorist cells and persuading detainees to reveal information.
"Renditions are the most effective way to hold people," said Rohan Gunaratna, author of "Inside al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror." "The threat of sending someone to one of these countries is very important. In Europe, the custodial interrogations have yielded almost nothing" because they do not use the threat of sending detainees to a country where they are likely to be tortured.
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| To: Louie_al-Arouri who wrote (1534) | 1/3/2005 10:47:55 AM | | From: scion | | | | When you stop connecting imaginary dots Dobry, tell us why you lied so often:
-about being a medical graduate of the Sorbonne;
-about being a Golden Glove Champion;
-about your age;
-about AZNT and RMIL
When you've done that Pudgy -
Tell us why you're proud of being a thief who stole two human foetuses from a teaching hospital.
Tell us why you thought Paschke would want stolen foetuses as a "gift".
When you've done that you can explain why you had to sell the boxing gym.
Remember this?
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| To: StockDung who wrote (1537) | 1/3/2005 11:09:50 AM | | From: scion | | | | LOL...
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| From: ravenseye | 1/3/2005 12:01:38 PM | | | | | | Happy New Year! hehehe court resumes today. Posts about the use of the media have gone full circle (webnode three = Jeff, Janice & Bill).
SEPT 10,2001 ( continued )
[11:33] anthony >> guess what MEDC did
[11:33] +rhansen >> what?
[11:34] anthony >> they called bloomberg and Internetwire cliaming my report was false
[11:34] +aloha >> yes, nd, though I covered some at 4.02
[11:34] nico >> ERTH to HELL
[11:34] anthony >> and i had to prove my report
[11:34] nd >> thnx
[11:34] searchgp >> did he use a NXTL phone?
[11:34] anthony >> and that pisses me off
[11:34] +rhansen >> i guess medc has never been shorted before, they will learn:)
[11:34] anthony >> acs was here whn i was workin on backin it all up
[11:34] anthony >> assholes
[11:35] anthony >> watsed my time
[11:35] Parnell >> tell them there 2m deal is false and we want them to back it up
[11:35] +ACS_101 >> They claimed 16.1 employees was a factual error.
[11:35] anthony >> Internet wire stood by me
[11:35] +ACS_101 >> They only have 16.
[11:36] anthony >> brought a tear to my eye
[11:36] anthony >> bloomberg also did not pull teh release from the system
[11:36] anthony >> which made me happy as well
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| To: scion who wrote (1540) | 1/3/2005 12:26:54 PM | | From: ravenseye | | | | Sept 11, 2001 ( cont )
[16:03] AnthonyPacific >> 4 why wouldnt they use fake identifications
[16:03] Henk >> both landed in Whitehorse
[16:03] Parnell >> sorry if asked , but just got in, have we heard from Bond?
[16:03] AnthonyPacific >> 4 we have not heard from bond since this am
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Figure in stock case is arrested with fake ID
By Bruce V. Bigelow STAFF WRITER April 20, 2004
...According to a sworn affidavit, Elgindy was arrested Saturday at MacArthur Airport in Islip, N.Y., attempting to board a commercial flight using a fake ID. The Southwest Airlines plane was headed to Phoenix with a connecting flight to San Diego.
The boarding pass issued to Elgindy bore the name of Manny Velasco. Elgindy was also in possession of a fake Montana state photo ID that listed the name Herbert Manny Velasco.
Elgindy was carrying $25,000 in cash and some $40,000 in jewelry at the time of his arrest. He also had four cell phones and various electronic devices. According to the affidavit, when he was arrested, Elgindy denied that he was Tony Elgindy...
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| To: ravenseye who wrote (1541) | 1/3/2005 12:31:37 PM | | From: scion | | | | TWO FACES FOR PWC By CHRISTOPHER BYRON
January 3, 2005 -- IT looks like 2005 could develop into a real mess for Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
A crack has opened in what has until now been an unbreachable legal defense behind which the nation's largest accounting firm has built its global practice.
PricewaterhouseCoopers operates out of offices in 768 cities in 139 countries, with the entire business managed out of a global headquarters in midtown Manhattan.
When marketing its services to clients, the firm likes to stress the "family" dimension of its global operations.
But if a PwC client decides, for whatever reason, that it doesn't like the work that one of the firm's global offices does for it and decides to sue, well, in that case, PriceWaterhouseCoopers instantly turns a preexisting other face to the world, and insists upon being treated as "a network of member firms, each of which is a separate and independent legal entity." (From some fine print that began appearing on the PwC Web site in February of 2003.)
So, is PricewaterhouseCoopers really just one big "collective brain," or not?
We may soon find out thanks to a high-stakes professional malpractice case that is boiling up in a South Florida federal court.
For PricewaterhouseCoopers, as well as some 286 investors in the busted Lancer group of hedge funds, it all comes down to whether the accounting giant will be allowed to duck responsibility for a series of worthless annual audits performed for Lancer's flagship "Offshore" fund by PricewaterhouseCoopers' office in the Netherlands Antilles.
The accounting firm's Curacao office is already a defendant in a lawsuit filed last February by a group of private investors in the fund. But in early December, the Lancer Group's court-appointed receiver, which is legally now running the fund, sued the entire PricewaterhouseCoopers global operation as well, arguing that the claimed independence of the Curacao office was just a legal fiction.
The suit by the receiver, led by a former federal prosecutor named Marty Steinberg at the law firm of Hunton & Williams, adds an entirely new dimension to PwC's problems.
UNDER current law, it is nearly impossible for private plaintiffs in suits such as the Lancer matter to force an accounting firm to turn over its books and records — especially when the documents are all tucked safely away in some tax haven hideout like the Netherlands Antilles.
But the situation with the receiver is different. Because the receiver is not shackled by recent pro-business reforms in securities law, it can subpoena any books and records it sees fit — at any time it wants — wherever the documents happen to be physically located.
If those documents show that PwC's headquarters in New York was directly involved with the Curacao office in handling the Lancer audits, the entire firm could wind up exposed to damages.
It is hard to imagine a more startling case of fishy auditing than the work that PwC's Curacao office did (and did not do) for the Lancer Offshore Fund.
The fund's portfolio, given a $1 billion-plus valuation by Lancer Group's founder and investment manager, a Ukrainian immigrant named Michael Lauer, was waved right on through in successive, thumbs-up audits by PwC in 2000 and 2001, and the firm was working on the 2002 audit when the funds were shut down.
Yet as both Lauer and the PwC auditors knew, that $1 billion-plus valuation was a fiction since, by the start of 2002, the Offshore fund's portfolio consisted almost entirely of worthless penny stocks — many issued by companies controlled by figures tied either directly or indirectly to organized crime. Lauer never showed his investors the worthless trash he was buying with their money, keeping them happy by showing them the PricewaterhouseCoopers audits instead.
It was Lauer's way of saying, in effect, "You don't have to take my word for anything. Perhaps you'd rather read what the world's most prestigious auditing firm has to say about us instead."
After a series of articles in The Post drew back the curtain on the swindle, the SEC raided the fund's Park Avenue offices in July of 2003, shut down the business, and the Federal District Court in Miami appointed an SEC receiver to salvage and liquidate what was possible.
HAVING recovered only about $80 mil lion for investors who had pumped more than $954 million into Lancer over the 10-year life of the group, the receiver began looking for deeper pockets than just Lauer's to claim against.
To that end, subpoenas were issued for documents from Lancer's fund administrator, Citco Fund Services, Ltd., a global operation in its own right, with an office in Curacao, as well as more than a dozen other international money centers around the world.
Those documents showed, among other things, that PwC's New York office was directly involved with officials in Curacao in preparing audits of the unmarketable, illiquid trash securities in the Lancer portfolios.
In fact, when The Post published a January 2003 story exposing PwC's deep involvement in the Lancer affair, PwC's New York office immediately e-mailed the Curacao office with a heads-up regarding the developing media interest in the matter.
Armed with this information, the receiver filed suit against the entire PwC operation, claiming professional malpractice by the firm in the preparation of its audits and demanding damages that could easily reach the total amount lost by investors in the Lancer fund investments.
Nor is Michael Lauer likely to be of much help rebutting the receiver's claims that he used the PwC audits as nothing less than marketing tools to promote his funds to fat cat investors around the world.
Already facing SEC charges of securities and market fraud in the management of his funds, Lauer was hit last week with more bad news when the SEC announced that it has asked the court in the SEC action to hold him in contempt for stonewalling four separate court orders seeking detailed answers to how he went about running the fund.
The order follows by several weeks a similar contempt proceeding charging Lauer with violating a court-ordered asset freeze by transferring money from a personal account in his own name to the account of a woman named Heidi Carens, doing business as the Lava Group, which lists Lauer's Greenwich residence as its business address.
Carens is a former official at an Amex-listed penny-stock company called Cross Media Marketing Inc., in which the Lancer Group once held a controlling 55.9 percent block of the shares. The company filed for bankruptcy in June of 2003, and three weeks later, Lancer itself was shut down.
The Group's records show that at the time of its collapse, the Offshore fund alone had loaned roughly $9.5 million to Cross Media Marketing. To date, the receiver has failed to locate or recover any of it.
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