For my Saudi reader as promised, LiberalCCW delivers!

I was walking the dog this morning, and while he was taking a crap, I started thinking about the CIA.

I imagined my Saudi reader flying to Iceland for a geothermal power conference, and passing through BAA Heathrow, and deciding to run across the street for fish and chips during the layover. (Probably not possible at Heathrow, but it's my imagination, so lay off already!)

As my reader's name is similar to the name of an infamous cleric in Jeddah, he has flipped a bit in the CIA/DIA/NSA computer and is picked up off of the sidewalk in front of the chips shop and shoved into a van.

Since he is considered an "enemy combatant" he dissapears, and flies out of Heathrow on a LearJet owned by "Pacific Business Consultants" of Portland OR, headed not for Iceland, but for Bulgaria, where he spends the next two years living La Vida Loca, and then is released. He has a very bad time in Bulgaria, and swears to never cross the street in London for Fish and Chips again.

What he needs: Extraordinary Rendition Insurance.

Think about this market, dear capitalist readers: Every middle eastern man that travels on business could be whisked off to a secret prison at any time, who pays the bills while he is away? Is his family notified of his whereabouts? No, that would compromise national security. Does he get red cross packages? I doubt it. Do you suppose he gets compensated for his time? Not by the Bulgarians, although I am sure that they are compensated handsomly. I can say with reasonable certainty that he is not compensated by by the CIA/DIA/NSA folks who sit in on the "questioning". They don't care that he missed his geothermal power conference sessions and the birth of his first child. They want to know which cave Osama is hiding in. Unfortunately for my Saudi reader, his PHD in geology won't help him on this one.

I can see the add now: Cigna ERI, because in these trying times, you never know if you will get to where you are going.