Posted on 08/15/2006 7:31:10 PM PDT by aculeus
The Briton described by the Pakistan authorities as a key figure in the alleged transatlantic airline plot has not yet had access to a lawyer or to British consular officials, it emerged last night. Rashid Rauf, arrested last week by the Pakistani police and alleged to have given information about a plot, is still being interrogated, a foreign ministry spokeswoman, Tasneem Aslam, said yesterday.
Asked if he had had access to a lawyer, she said: "I don't think we have reached that stage yet."
She said there had been no official request from the British authorities for his extradition and she would not comment on reports that Scotland Yard detectives are in Islamabad to interview Mr Rauf, who security sources say is being held in a safe house used for interrogation, rather than in a jail or police station. Concerns have been expressed by two Pakistan-based human rights groups that Mr Rauf may be facing torture as part of the interrogation. Britain has no extradition treaty with Pakistan, although they operate what Ms Aslam described as mutual assistance.
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"As far as we know no lawyer has been approached to represent him," Ms Jilani said. "But in this country people just disappear for two or three years. It is not unusual at all. He is lucky because people know who he is and what has happened to him. There will be due process to follow. What we have seen is that under the guise of anti-terrorism people have vanished. Mr Rauf has not, he is in custody."
Mr Rauf can be held for one month without charge, a process that can be repeated for up to a year.
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Mr. who?
Hey, if you're gonna run with the big dogs....
Since when should terrorists have lawyers?
The next pic is a little more gruesome.
I am a nice lady, I shouldn't find this funny, but I do. But then I like watching 24, and it pleases me to think of terrorists being persistently questioned without the oversight of the ACLU and commie lawyers.
Mr Rauf can be held for one month without charge, a process that can be repeated for up to a year.
Wow!
It's waterboarding time!
"Rashid Rauf, arrested last week by the Pakistani police"
omg. that bastard will be begging to be extradited. He should of had a cyanide tablet on himself if he were smart.
Hey man ... Jack Bauer is having his fingernails removed in a Chinese prison at the moment ... I am very upset.
Don't be upset; for Jack Bauer, that's just a manicure.
"The next pic is a little more gruesome."
Indeed.
It is linked below for the curious with a strong constitution.
WARNING: Linked image contains GRAPHIC depiction of violence.
Violence as in the ballistic ejection of human tissue from a gun-shot wound.
Delivered in order that Jack can save the freakin' world!
You have been warned...click the link at your own risk!!!
http://www.kiefer-rocks.com/photos/large_24_season_four/disc_one/14.jpg
It may not be an authentic aerosol blast...but it sure looks good in
that photo!
The look on the thug's face...PRICELESS!
Many thanks!
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