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[Solly Mack]

Articles listing Poland, Romania and ME countries - as well as countries in North Africa / SE Asia - as locations of the CIA's secret prison system. (extraordinary rendition/illegal detention/"enhanced interrogation methods")


CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
November 2, 2005

"The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.

The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, as well as a small center at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644_pf.html


Secret world of US jails
June 13, 2004

"The United States government, in conjunction with key allies, is running an 'invisible' network of prisons and detention centres into which thousands of suspects have disappeared without trace since the 'war on terror' began.

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..... sent to Bagram and then to Guantanamo, before being flown to Morocco. Last November, Amnesty International criticised the 'sharp rise' in torture during 2003 in Moroccan prisons.

In Syria, detainees sent by Washington are held at 'the Palestine wing' of the main intelligence headquarters and a series of jails in Damascus and other cities.

Egypt has also received a steady flow of militants from American installations. Many other militants have been sent to Egypt by other countries through transfers assisted by the Americans, often using planes run by the CIA. In Cairo, prisoners are kept in the interrogation centre in the general intelligence directorate in Lazoughli and in Mulhaq al-Mazra prison, according to Montasser al-Zayat, an Islamist lawyer in Cairo and former spokesman for outlawed militant groups."


http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1237589,00.html


In America's secret prison network
January 14, 2005

"An investigation by the Washington Post last year suggested that the U.S. held 9,000 people overseas in an archipelago of known prisons (such as Abu Ghraib in Iraq) and unknown ones run by the Pentagon, the CIA or other organizations. But this figure does not include others "rendered" to third-party governments who then act as subcontractors for Washington, enabling the U.S. to effectively torture detainees while technically denying that it carries out torture."


http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/01/14/prisoner_story/index.html

News Top Al Qaeda Figures Held in Secret CIA Prisons
10 Out of 11 High-Value Terror Leaders Subjected to 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques'

"Current and former CIA officers speaking to ABC News on the condition of confidentiality say the United States scrambled to get all the suspects off European soil before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived there today. The officers say 11 top al Qaeda suspects have now been moved to a new CIA facility in the North African desert. "

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1375123


Condi goes on offensive over secret CIA jails
December 04, 2005

Condi goes on offensive over secret CIA jails

"UNDER siege over allegations of secret CIA detention centres in Europe, Condoleezza Rice, the American secretary of state, is to go on the offensive when she meets European allies this week.
Convinced that the media, rather than Europe’s leaders, are making the biggest fuss about reports of “black sites” housing top Al-Qaeda prisoners, Rice has decided she can afford to brush off mounting criticism of America’s human rights record.


The White House adopted an aggressive tone when Scott McClellan, the presidential spokesman, said on Friday that George W Bush did not condone torture. “When it comes to human rights, there is no greater leader than the United States of America,” he said."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1903373,00.html

More Condi Rice/articles/secret prisons

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4499648.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/07/international/europe/07rice.html?ex=1291611600&en=fbcd7ddeb9509e37&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

"BERLIN, Dec. 5 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chastised European leaders on Monday, saying that before they complain about secret jails for terror suspects in European nations, they should realize that interrogations of these suspects have produced information that helped "save European lives."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/06/international/europe/06rice.html?ex=1291525200&en=764feaaa5bc9ea0f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss


United States of America / Yemen

Secret Detention in CIA "Black Sites"

Illegal detentions, rendition and reverse rendition

"All three had entered the USA’s network of illegal detentions, secret transfers and unacknowledged prisons, where suspects are arbitrarily shuttled in and out of US custody, in what journalist Stephen Grey called "a worldwide traffic in prisoners".(4) According to a former senior US intelligence official, the rules of this game were simple: "Grab whom you must. Do what you want."(5)"

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR511772005