Abou Elkassim Britel
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Abou Elkassim Britel is a citizen of Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 who is reported to have been transported through the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

' controversial extraordinary rendition
Extraordinary rendition
Extraordinary rendition is the abduction and illegal transfer of a person from one nation to another. "Torture by proxy" is used by some critics to describe situations in which the United States and the United Kingdom have transferred suspected terrorists to other countries in order to torture the...

 program.
Abou was first apprehended in Pakistan, in February 2002, who handed him over to American authorities.
Abou was flown to Morocco in May 2002, and remains in extrajudicial detention
Extrajudicial detention
Arbitrary or extrajudicial detention is the detention of individuals by a state, without ever laying formal charges against them.Although it has a long history of legitimate use in wartime , detention without charge, sometimes in secret, has been one of the hallmarks of totalitarian states...

 there.

Abou joined with four other men, Bisher Al-Rawi, Binyam Mohamed, Ahmed Agiza
Ahmed Agiza
Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad Alzery were two Egyptian asylum-seekers who were deported to Egypt from Sweden on December 18, 2001, apparently following a request from the United States Central Intelligence Agency...

 and Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah, to sue the Jeppesen Dataplan a company with a contract with the US government to run the fleet of jets used in the extraordinary rendition program.
Marc Ambinder, commenting in the Atlantic magazine explained the United States President Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

 was opposing the men "discovery
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, on the grounds doing so woould expose techniques that would put the USA's national security
National security
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at risk.
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