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Poland: 'CIA Prisons' Just a Cover?
Kiejkuty is a least suitable place for maintaining secrecy. A spy satellite photographs it every 15 hours. And the photo is so detailed you can recognise the breed of the dog in front of the kennel, says a former high-ranking intelligence officer. Kiejkuty is a least suitable place for maintaining secrecy. A spy satellite photographs it every 15 hours. And the photo is so detaile... more
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CIA prisons in Poland: a story of revelation
Politicians of almost all parties in Poland have kept denying whether the CIA illegally held terrorists in secret prisons in Poland.
The first to report about secret Central Intelligence Agency prisons in Europe where alleged Al Qaeda members were held was the Washington Post on 2 November 205. The story was based on anonymous sources within the CIA.
The history of the article's publication (Dana Priest won a Pulitzer for it) is dramatic. President George W. Bush intervened when the newspaper was to go to print, asking for certain details - the names of the countries where the detention centres were located, and the names of the prisoners - to be withheld.
On 7 November, Human Rights Watch, the human rights organisation, said the prisoners had been held in Poland and Romania, among other places. In December, ABC News reported the names of twelve terrorists who had supposedly been held in Poland, among them Khalid Sheik Mohammad, the mastermind of the World Trade Centre attack.
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Polish agents tell of CIA jails
Polish intelligence sources have for the first time confirmed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran a secret prison facility on Polish soil.
The admission comes after a report found the CIA had operated prisons for terror suspects in Poland and Romania.
Polish and Romanian officials denied the claims, but last month Warsaw launched a new inquiry into the matter.
In 2006, US President George W Bush admitted the CIA had held suspects in secret jails but he did not say where.
Two anonymous intelligence officers made the claims about facilities being located in Poland in the daily Dziennik.
One of them states that between 2002 and 2005 the CIA held terror suspects inside a military intelligence training base in Stare Kiejkuty in north-eastern Poland.
The officer says only the CIA had access to the isolated zone, which was used because it was a secure site far from major towns and was close to a former military airport.
Both the then Prime Minister, Leszek Miller, and President, Aleksander Kwasniewski, knew about the base, the newspaper reports.
However the officer says it was unlikely either man knew if the prisoners were being tortured because the Poles had no control over the Americans' activities.
Both leaders have always denied the existence of any such base.
Last year a Council of Europe report quoted unnamed CIA sources as saying that "high-value detainees", including Khalid Sheik Mohammed - the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the US in 2001 - had been interrogated in Poland.
The current Polish government says it has no knowledge of the base but it has sanctioned a new investigation into the claims. Polish intelligence sources have for the first time confirmed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran a secret prison facili... more -
Poland investigates CIA prisons
Poland's prime minister has requested an investigation into allegations there were secret prisons in the country used by the CIA to hold and question terror suspects between 2001 and 2004.
The request by Prime Minister Donald Tusk was confirmed Monday by government spokesman Jacek Filipowicz.
In September 2006, President Bush acknowledged for the first time that terror suspects have been held in CIA-run prisons overseas, but did not specify where.
Allegations that CIA agents shipped prisoners through European airports to secret detention centers, including compounds in Eastern Europe, were first reported in November 2005. Human Rights Watch later identified Poland — a U.S. ally in Afghanistan and Iraq — and Romania as possible locations of the alleged secret prisons. Both countries have repeatedly denied involvement.
An investigator for the Council of Europe, a leading human rights group, said evidence pointed to the likelihood that planes linked to the CIA carrying terror suspects stopped in Romania and Poland and likely dropped off detainees there. Poland's prime minister has requested an investigation into allegations there were secret prisons in the country used by the CIA ... more -
Maybe these kids Know something, Let's Torture them!-- I mean, interrogate th...
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0631915420080606
It is truly a sad day when America has less ethics than communist China. http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0631915420080606 ... more -
United States accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships
Guess this beats water boarding!
Information about the operation of prison ships has emerged through a number of sources, including statements from the US military, the Council of Europe and related parliamentary bodies, and the testimonies of prisoners. Guess this beats water boarding! ... more -
The Torture Letters - harrowing tales from secret US prisions
Excerpt: On a recent trip to Amman, Jordan, during a visit to the home of someone who had been detained by the Jordanian intelligence service in 2002, I was given two very thin strips of paper covered with Arabic writing and marked with a thumbprint. Curled up into a tight spiral, they were no bigger than the cap of a pen.
My contact, who had smuggled the papers out of intelligence detention a few years previously, told me that the message therein had been written by a prisoner who had been detained with him. He said it gave a detailed account of that person's experiences.
The message's author was a Yemeni terrorism suspect named Ali al-Hajj al-Sharqawi, who was arrested in Pakistan in February 2002. Though the message was undated, it was clear from the narrative that it had been written in October 2002.
Sharqawi said that he had been delivered to Jordan by the CIA. Unknown to the outside world, he was held as a secret prisoner by the Jordanian intelligence service: unregistered, cut off from all communication and hidden during visits by representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
"They beat me up in a way that does not know mercy," Sharqawi wrote, referring to his Jordanian captors, "and they're still beating me. They threatened me with electricity, with snakes and dogs ... [They said] we'll make you see death."
Sharqawi described his interrogations, explaining that the Jordanians were feeding his responses back to the CIA. "Every time that the interrogator asks me about a certain piece of information, and I talk," Sharqawi said, "he asks me if I told this to the Americans. And if I say no he jumps for joy, and he leaves me and goes to report it to his superiors, and they rejoice."
A pressing question is where these men ultimately ended up. Since the rendered prisoners were not Jordanian, Jordan was a place of temporary detention and interrogation, not a permanent jailer. Even before my trip to Jordan, we knew that some of them -- including Sharqawi -- were now being held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Sharqawi has been held there since late 2004 without ever being charged with any crime. A couple of others are believed to be in detention elsewhere, and at least one is free, but the whereabouts of other prisoners are unknown. It is possible that many or all of the remaining detainees -- which include citizens of Algeria, Tunisia and Syria -- underwent a second rendition, being transferred from Jordan back to their home countries without legal proceedings or any opportunity to challenge such a transfer. The treatment they may be enduring is unknown. Excerpt: On a recent trip to Amman, Jordan, during a visit to the home of someone who had been detained by the Jordanian intelligence ... more -
Top Ten Signs Your Country May Be Going Fascist
Is your country becoming a fascist nation? Let's use this checklist.
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C.I.A.=L.I.E. Lets Solve The Puzzle For Them!!!
Hey Folks...Lets unravel this puzzle. Maybe you're (water) board today. So lets play a game.... Some things really stand out. They stink to high heaven. So...Each person leave a comment here on one point in this story that stinks to high heaven. I'll put my one point in to start and you take it from there.
OK, my ONE point:
In this article it says the CIA was afraid that the tapes would reveal the identities of some of their covert agents.
My Analysis:
Excuuuuuse me! Every time I see a video on tv or on the Internet that needs to protect the identity of whomever, there's a gray disc or a fuzz-out over their faces so you CANNOT identify the person in the video.
Whats up with that? Their employees don't have the ability to do this? This is a LAME excuse if I ever heard of one. They should lock em up just for being lame.
OK People..now your turn.... Hey Folks...Lets unravel this puzzle. Maybe you're (water) board today. So lets play a game.... Some things really stand out. Th... more -
Bush and Cheney To Be Indicted For War Crimes? In Vermont The Wheels Are In Motion
There's a group in Brattleboro Vermont that has a petition ready to put an item on the town meeting agenda in March that would make Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney subject to arrest and indictment for war crimes if they come trotting through this Vermont community.
I'm not gonna hold my breath, but if this DOES happen, what jurisdiction would be in place? Would they have to move the Hague over there? Would Cheney not be allowed to hunt there? Would Mr. Bush be stripped of his right to pour Vermont maple syrup on his pancakes?
I don't know. What do you think? Read the article and let me know. Meanwhile, I'm going to google google. There's a group in Brattleboro Vermont that has a petition ready to put an item on the town meeting agenda in March that would ma... more -
Inside the CIA's Secret Prisons
"The CIA held Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah in several different cells when he was incarcerated its network of secret prisons known as "black sites." But the small cells were all pretty similar, maybe 7 feet wide and 10 feet long. He was sometimes naked, and sometimes handcuffed for weeks at a time. In one cell his ankle was chained to a bolt in the floor. There was a small toilet. In another cell there was just a bucket. Video cameras recorded his every move. The lights always stayed on -- there was no day or night. A speaker blasted him with continuous white noise, or rap music, 24 hours a day."
This is one dark story..... "The CIA held Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah in several different cells when he was incarcerated its network of secret prisons kno... more
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