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''When the C.I.A. is given a task, it's usually because national policy makers don't want 'U.S. government' written all over it,'' said a retired C.I.A. Some of the C.I.A. planes have been used for carrying out renditions, the legal term for the agency's practice of seizing terrorism suspects in one foreign country and delivering them to be detained in another, including countries that routinely engage in torture.

Friday, October 01, 2010

Keflavik: 1,000 in Sudurnes lost jobs

“People don’t seem to realize that here in Sudurnes, we are going through the second crisis,”. “It has only been four years since the [US] defense force left the country, at which point more than 1,000 people lost their jobs.

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