BEFORE THE AFRICAN COMMISSION FOR HUMAN & PEOPLES’ RIGHTS 49th ORDINARY SESSION: APRIL-MAY 2011 COMMUNICATION NO. 383/2010 In the matter between: MOHAMMED ABDULLAH SALEH AL-ASAD and DJIBOUTI FACTUAL SUMMARY OF PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION ON THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION, SECRET DETENTION, AND INTERROGATION PROGRAM AND DJIBOUTI’S ROLE IN THE PROGRAM VOLUME II: DOCUMENTS U - PP VOLUME TWO: DOCUMENT INDEX Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial, Arar v. Ashcroft, 22 January 2004………………U First Amended Complaint, Mohamed et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan, 1 August 2007……...V Order, El-Masri v. Tenet, 12 May 2006………………………………………………….W Human Rights Watch, U.S. Holding at Least Twenty-Six “Ghost Detainees,” 1 December 2005……………………………………………………………………………………….X Human Rights Council, Joint Study on Global Practices in Relation to Secret Detention in the Context of Countering Terrorism, 19 February 2010……………………………...Y Dana Priest, Washington Post, Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake, 4 December 2005…………………………………………………………………………...Z Jane Mayer, New Yorker, The “Black Sites”: A Rare Look Inside the CIA’s Secret Interrogation Program, 13 August 2007……………………………………………….AA Craig S. Smith and Souad Mekhennet, New York Times, Algerian Tells of Dark Term in U.S. Hands, 7 July 2006………………………………………………………………...BB Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Remarks Upon Her Departure for Europe, 5 December 2005…………………………………………………………………………CC Scott McClellan, Press Briefing by Scott McClellan, 6 December 2005……………….DD Craig Whitlock, Washington Post, Jordan's Spy Agency Holding Cell for the CIA, 1 December 2007………………………………………………………………………….EE Center for Defense Information, U.S. Arms Exports and Military Assistance in the “Global War on Terror” Djibouti Report, 2007………………………………………..FF Richard Grimmett, Congressional Research Service, U.S. Arms Sales: Agreements with and Deliveries to Major Clients, 2000-2007, 26 November 2008……………………..GG U.S. Department of State, 2004 Country Reports on Terrorism: Africa Overview, 27 April 2005………………………………………………………………………………HH Lauren Ploch, Congressional Research Service, Countering Terrorism in East Africa: The U.S. Response, 3 November 2010………………………………………………………...II U.N. Security Council, Letter dated 15 March 2006 from the Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001) concerning counter- terrorism addressed to the President of the Security Council, 17 March 2006………….JJ Alain Lallemand, The Center for Public Integrity, Profiteering on Location: Djibouti’s Repressive Regime, not its People, has Prospered Since 9/11, 22 May 2007………….KK Paul Salopek, Chicago Tribune, War on Terror's Hidden Front: U.S. Military Quietly Trying to Wage Peace in Africa, 18 November 2008…………………………………...LL U.S. Department of State, 2005 Country Reports on Terrorism: Africa Overview, 28 April 2006……………………………………………………………………………...MM Paul Salopek, Chicago Tribune, 'Nobody is watching': America's hidden war in Somalia, 24 November 2008……………………………………………………………………...NN Status Report, Mohammed Abdulmalik v. Barack Obama, 22 June 2009……………...OO Rik Delhaas, Trouw, Amerika foltert in Somalië, 15 August 2005……………………..PP FACTUAL SUMMARY OF PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION ON THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION, SECRET DETENTION, AND INTERROGATION PROGRAM AND DJIBOUTI’S ROLE IN THE PROGRAM DOCUMENT U Case 1:04-cv-00249-DGT-SMG Document 1 Filed 01/22/04 Page 1 of 82 Case 1:04-cv-00249-DGT-SMG Document 1 Filed 01/22/04 Page 2 of 82 Case 1:04-cv-00249-DGT-SMG Document 1 Filed 01/22/04 Page 3 of 82 Case 1:04-cv-00249-DGT-SMG Document 1 Filed 01/22/04 Page 4 of 82 Case 1:04-cv-00249-DGT-SMG Document 1 Filed 01/22/04 Page 5 of 82 Case 1:04-cv-00249-DGT-SMG Document 1 Filed 01/22/04 Page 6 of 82 Case 1:04-cv-00249-DGT-SMG Document 1 Filed 01/22/04 Page 7 of 82 Case 1:04-cv-00249-DGT-SMG Document 1 Filed 01/22/04 Page 8 of 82 Case 1:04-cv-00249-DGT-SMG Document 1 Filed 01/22/04 Page 9 of 82 Case 1:04-cv-00249-DGT-SMG Document 1 Filed 01/22/04 Page 10 of 82 Case 1:04-cv-00249-DGT-SMG Document 1 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