June 8, 2007
Report Claims Proof of
Secret CIA Jails
in Europe
Paris
A Council of Europe report made public Friday said that
investigators have proof that the US Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) ran clandestine prisons for terror suspects in Europe, with
the full cooperation of government leaders.
The report, prepared by Dick Marty, a Swiss senator who is heading
the investigation, said, "There is now enough evidence to state that
secret detention facilities run by the CIA did exist in Europe from
2003 to 2005, in particular in Poland and Romania. We have also had
clear and detailed confirmation from our own sources, in both the
American intelligence services and the countries concerned, that the
two countries did host secret detention centres under a special CIA
programme established by the American administration in the
aftermath of September 11, 2001, to 'kill, capture and detain'
terrorist suspects deemed to be of 'high value'".
Marty's report stated that investigators had received confirmation,
"from more than one source," of eight names of "high-value
detainees" that were held in Poland between 2003 and 2005.
CIA sources told Marty's investigators that Poland was the "black
site" where both Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were held
and questioned using "enhanced interrogation techniques," which is
usually a euphemism for torture.
Abu Zubaydah was a leading member of Osama bin Laden's brain trust
and the operations chief of al-Qaeda. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has
admitted planning the September 11 attacks on the United States.
The report states that these secret prisons "were run directly and
exclusively by the CIA" and that local staff performed only "purely
logistical duties".
However, investigators had "sufficient grounds to declare that the
highest state authorities were aware of the CIA's illegal activities
on their territories".
The report said that former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski
as well as the former and current presidents of Romania, Ion Iliescu
and Traian Basescu, "could be held accountable for these activities"
because they "knew about and authorized" them.
The report noted that the "rendition, abduction and detention of
terrorist suspects" have always taken place outside US borders
because they would have been "ruled unlawful and unconstitutional"
by American courts.
"This export of illegal activities overseas is all the more shocking
in that it shows fundamental contempt for the countries on whose
territories it was decided to commit the relevant acts", it said.
Marty's report also criticized Germany and Italy for having
"obstructed the search for the truth and continuing to do so by
invoking the concept of 'state secrets'."
In an interview published Friday in the French daily Le Figaro,
Marty said, "The United States wanted to impose a war without rules
against terrorism. This policy ended in disaster".
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