Terror rendition prisons 'did exist'

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Terror rendition prisons 'did exist'
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2007-06-08 03:47. Evidence

Watch Channel 4 (UK) Report.

Secret prisons run by the CIA did exist in Europe to facilitate the worldwide kidnap and torture of terror suspects according to an official investigation.

Dick Marty, the author of a report for the Council of Europe, told Channel 4's Dispatches programme - 'we can now confirm that there were secret CIA prisons in Poland and Romania.'

The governments of both countries have vigorously denied any involvement.

But investigators found that the facilities were run by CIA operatives reporting directly to the offices of the country's presidents.

Suspicions 'right all along'

Remember all those stories about little white planes rendering kidnapped American terror suspects to secret gulags in eastern Europe?

Well, they weren't conspiracy theories, it turns out. Last June, the Council of Europe's investigator expressed his suspicions; now he calls it "established fact."

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[malaise]

1. Arrest these criminals

Bush needs to be exposed again.

[cal04]

2. Investigator: CIA ran secret prisons

The report, citing unnamed CIA sources, said top terror suspects Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were secretly held and interrogated in Poland, and that the "highest state authorities" in countries involved knew of the alleged detention centers.

Sheikh Mohammed is the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. Abu Zubaydah is a suspected senior al-Qaida operative.

Marty also accused Germany and Italy of obstructing his probe into the alleged secret detentions by the CIA.

The report said collaboration by U.S. allies was critical to the secret detention program, which took place in the framework of
NATO's security policy.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070608/ap_on_re_eu/eu_cia_secret_prisons

[Solly Mack]

3. Still "do" it would appear

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1065173

"President Bush acknowledged the existence of secret CIA prisons in September last year, but said that they had been emptied and all detainees transferred to the US prison at Guantánamo Bay

If accurate, the report flatly contradicts assurances given by President Bush that the CIA's secret detention programme has been closed down and all the agency's prisoners moved to Guantánamo Bay"

"The report also expresses concern over the fate of Yusuf al-Khalid and Abed al-Khalid, the sons of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. They were taken into custody, aged nine and seven, in September 2002, during an attempt to capture their father. A former detainee says that he saw them in March the following year, around the time their father was captured, in a secret prison where the guards tormented them with insects."


"Bush said in September there were no prisoners remaining in custody in U.S. secret facilities at that time. But the report said the transfer of Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi from CIA custody to Guantanamo in April showed the system was still operating."

[MiaCulpa]

4. Larisa Alexandrovna reported on this in March

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Sovietera_compound_in_Poland_was_site_0307.html