BBC NEWS | Americas | US civil rights group to sue CIA

BBC NEWS | Americas | US civil rights group to sue CIA:

"'The lawsuit will charge that CIA officials at the highest level violated US and universal human rights laws when they authorised agents to abduct an innocent man, detain him incommunicado, beat him, drug and transport him to a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan,' the ACLU said in a news release.

The release identified the jail as the 'Salt Pit'.

The group did not provide the name or nationality of the plaintiff, saying only that he would appear at a news conference next week to reveal details of the lawsuit.

The ACLU also wants to name corporations which it accuses of owning and operating the aircraft used to transport detainees secretly from country to country."