Any country that is hosting CIA "black sites" (aka secret prisons)

[Nutmegger]

Needs to have their EU membership (or potential EU membership) revoked IMMEDIATELY!

Franco Frattini, the European commissioner for justice and home affairs, warned that any countries found to be allowing the CIA to operate the detention centres " part of a global secret gulag used to hold al-Qa'ida suspects and other 'ghost detainees' " could have its voting rights suspended.

Three separate initiatives are under way to try to investigate the claims, which surfaced early this month and which initially appeared to implicate Poland and Romania. Since then, a number of countries have faced claims that CIA planes may have landed on their territory while transporting terrorist suspects. Evidence shows that the planes landed and refuelled in Scotland.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20051129/ai_n15872076

This is an old article but I think it needs to be resurfaced in light of * now admitting that these disgusting sites exist.
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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.html
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Fourteen European nations colluded with U.S. intelligence in a "spider's web" of human rights abuses to help the CIA spirit terror suspects to illegal detention facilities, a European investigator said Wednesday.

In the strongest allegations so far, Marty said evidence suggests planes linked to the CIA carrying terror suspects stopped in Romania and Poland and likely dropped off detainees there, backing up earlier news reports that identified the two countries as possible sites of clandestine detention centers.

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/06/07/ap2800214.html
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Franco Frattini said the consequences would be "extremely serious" if reports of such prisons turned out to be true.

In the case of Romania, a senior Euro MP has questioned whether its accession to the EU should go ahead as planned.

Speaking at a news conference in Berlin, the EU Justice Commissioner said he would call for tough penalties against any involved state.

"I would be obliged to propose to the Council serious consequences, including the suspension of voting rights in the council," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4478766.stm

[Solly Mack]

1. Good!

Thanks for posting this!

[merh]

2. Wow - who would have thunk that other nations find our

"operations" suspect, if not in clear violation of international law.

kicked & recommended

[orpupilofnature57]

3. He's made us criminals ,not willing to listen to reason. Barbarians

[Nutmegger]

4. Kick

:kick:

[merh]

5. kick

:kick:

[Nutmegger]

6. Thanks for the kick

Here's another. :kick:

[merh]

8. I wish these threads wouldn't get lost.

They are very important.

and you are welcome, of course

[Nutmegger]

9. Well DU is clogged at the moment with Path to 9/11

this is why it must be kicked yet again.

:pals:

[Sydnie]

7. New Dubya slogans

Dubya - fucking up your country is his business, his only business.
Dubya - fucking the world since 2000.
Dubya - The other dumb white meat.

Laughing and crying, you know, it's the same release. <--- thank you Joni Mitchell for those words of wisdom.

[merh]

10. let's see if we can get this the attention it deserves.

:kick: