US Rendition and Torture: A New Front for Accountability Opens Up in Djibouti http://www.cageprisoners.com/our-work/opinion-editorial/item/1268-us-rendition-and-torture-a-new-front-for-accountability-opens-up-in-djibouti
The mainstream media in the US may not care about the significance of the Spanish National Court’s recent decision to allow an investigation into torture at Guantánamo to proceed (the story was ignored by both the New York Times and the Washington Post, even though the Center for Constitutional Rights called it "the first real investigation of the US torture program"), but the Washington Post has at least partly made up for this omission by reporting that a new front in the quest for accountability for those who conceived, justified and ordered America’s program of "extraordinary rendition"and torture in the Bush administration’s "War on Terror" has opened up in Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa, where the US maintains a significant military presence at Camp Lemonnier...
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