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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

CIA and Jails

The American Intelligence Service the CIA had been demasked earlier this year, when it was found out that they would transport terror-suspects into nations where they then could commence Torture. This was greeted by anger from the population in America and many other nations, further many European governments protested against the use of their airspace to transport those 'suspects'. The only European government accused of knowing off this was the Spanish which had to accept a strong current of criticism. Yet, a new Draft report released by the European Parliament indicates that more European nations were aware of these transports and cooperated in the transport by allowing the aircraft to land and/or use their airspace. This cooperation is differentiated by passive and active cooperation which means that the active nations did something to support the transports and the passive nations simply let it happen. The CIA has flown an alleged 1,245 flights over Europe some of which were probably 'prisoner' transports. The number of 'terror' suspects that were transported in this manner is at least 18. Two new governments accused of cooperation in this case are the governments of Poland and Romania. Both nations previously strongly denied that they allowed the CIA to have prisons for those 'prisoners' in their nations. Other nations that might be involved after this report are, Britain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Cyprus may have known of this taking place but not taken actions to prevent it from happening.

Sources:
EU nations 'knew about CIA jails' (BBC)
EU nations 'knew of CIA prisons' (Al Jazeera)

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