Australian Mamdouh Habib, devout Muslim and terrorist suspect, was bound, gagged, and transported to Cairo where he was interrogated and tortured. The Dateline presentation reports that a fleet of jets delivers bound-and-gagged terrorist suspects to countries known to have no qualms at all about using torture to extract information. This notoriously secret US policy is known as extraordinary rendition.
Addock's story reveals Mamdouh Habib's rendition of how he was transferred from Pakistan, where he had been arrested, to Egypt and then to Guantanamo Bay. Habib maintains he was brutally tortured while he was held in Egypt and for its part, the Australian Government is sticking to its line that it didn't know he was even in Egypt. Habib makes a number of dramatic new claims including that he was interrogated in Cairo by people using information that could only have come from his country, raising the politically and legally loaded question of whether Australia was, in fact, complicit with what happened to him.
About International Dateline
SBS Dateline, which began in 1984, is Australia's longest-running international current affairs program. It has a well-earned reputation for authoritative and incisive reporting. Dateline has taken the traditional way of producing TV current affairs and turned it on its head. Reporters who used to travel with a cameraperson and sound recordist now travel alone and have the responsibility of both filming and reporting their stories. The reporters became video-journalists, gaining access to people and places that the conventional camera crews cannot.
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