Warsaw, March 11 (NAM) For years, the complicity of European countries remained silent destination of ghost prisoners accused of terrorism and victims of the rendition program covert Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The question of their whereabouts, created in 2005 by a newspaper article the Washington Post when he first addressed the issue of secret prisons, was cleared today despite attempts to conceal it.
Reports of European organizations that defend human rights confirm that aircraft associated with the program of secret detentions by the CIA flew to Poland, Romania and Lithuania with the complicity of those governments.
The data delivered by the Polish Agency for Air Navigation Services reveal details about the arrival in 2003 of at least six aircraft linked to the CIA in the former military airport of Szczytno-Szymany, in northern Poland.
On this point, prosecutor Robert Majewski, in charge of the investigation initiated in 2008 by the Polish government about these accusations, said "not familiar with the flight logs above.
On several occasions, the Polish authorities have denied carrying out such operations on their territory, despite a 2005 report by a humanitarian organization, which claims that the CIA transported suspected terrorists captured in Afghanistan to Poland where were held in secret prisons.
Meanwhile, a Lithuanian parliamentary inquiry found that between 2002 and 2005, U.S. warplanes repeatedly crossed the airspace of this country and landed there without being subject to any customs or border control.
According to former Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas, in this Baltic country was a network of secret CIA prisons, whose construction began after his dismissal in April 2004.
In August last year, Lithuanian press published information on a secret CIA prison 20 kilometers from Vilnius, the capital, where they were installed under the cover of an equestrian center, and local interrogation cell with concrete walls, in addition to torture prisoners.
The reports reveal that the prison was intended to suspected terrorists of Al Qaeda, and was one of the centers of its kind built by the Lithuanian government after the attacks of 11 September 2001 on the twin towers in America, in open manifestation of loyalty to the northern nation.
A symbol of the era of former U.S. President George W. Bush, secret prisons are secret CIA facilities located outside the national territory with little or no oversight or public policy, as part of the war against terrorism launched on 7 October 2001 by the White House.
While no state in the old continent has confirmed the existence of those dark places in his territory, according to a report by the European Parliament, the CIA ran 245 flights thousand through that airspace between late 2001 and 2007.
The dossier, unveiled in 2007, lamented that "European countries have ceded control over its airspace and airports, to take a blind eye or admitting flights operated by the CIA which, on occasion, were used for the illegal transportation of prisoners" .
This controversy is compounded by the ghost prisoners kidnapped on European territory and returned to other countries, secret operations on which perhaps many governments in the region were aware testified Swiss senator Dick Marty.
This is the case of Osama Mustafa Hassan, suspected terrorist and kidnapped in February 2003 by CIA agents in a street in the Italian city of Milan.
The Egyptian imam was sent on a military plane to Germany, where he was transferred to a prison in Egypt and probably tortured.
Marty points out in his report of January 2006 that the CIA is responsible for assisting and directing financially prisons in those countries where torture is practiced also in clear defiance of international conventions which prohibit it.
Of the 14 European countries that Swiss senator listed as partners in "unlawful interstate transfers" excel UK, Germany, Italy, Romania, Poland, Sweden and Czech Republic.
A fax system interfered by the Swiss Onyx, from the Foreign Minister of Egypt and led to its embassy in London said that 23 prisoners were secretly questioned by Americans in the Romanian International Airport "Mihail Kogalniceanu".
After years of complicit silence, the truth came to light: the CIA in Europe found the perfect hiding place for hide and torturing their prisoners ghosts.
Additional info: @ News Minute by Minute.
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The question of their whereabouts, created in 2005 by a newspaper article the Washington Post when he first addressed the issue of secret prisons, was cleared today despite attempts to conceal it.
Reports of European organizations that defend human rights confirm that aircraft associated with the program of secret detentions by the CIA flew to Poland, Romania and Lithuania with the complicity of those governments.
The data delivered by the Polish Agency for Air Navigation Services reveal details about the arrival in 2003 of at least six aircraft linked to the CIA in the former military airport of Szczytno-Szymany, in northern Poland.
On this point, prosecutor Robert Majewski, in charge of the investigation initiated in 2008 by the Polish government about these accusations, said "not familiar with the flight logs above.
On several occasions, the Polish authorities have denied carrying out such operations on their territory, despite a 2005 report by a humanitarian organization, which claims that the CIA transported suspected terrorists captured in Afghanistan to Poland where were held in secret prisons.
Meanwhile, a Lithuanian parliamentary inquiry found that between 2002 and 2005, U.S. warplanes repeatedly crossed the airspace of this country and landed there without being subject to any customs or border control.
According to former Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas, in this Baltic country was a network of secret CIA prisons, whose construction began after his dismissal in April 2004.
In August last year, Lithuanian press published information on a secret CIA prison 20 kilometers from Vilnius, the capital, where they were installed under the cover of an equestrian center, and local interrogation cell with concrete walls, in addition to torture prisoners.
The reports reveal that the prison was intended to suspected terrorists of Al Qaeda, and was one of the centers of its kind built by the Lithuanian government after the attacks of 11 September 2001 on the twin towers in America, in open manifestation of loyalty to the northern nation.
A symbol of the era of former U.S. President George W. Bush, secret prisons are secret CIA facilities located outside the national territory with little or no oversight or public policy, as part of the war against terrorism launched on 7 October 2001 by the White House.
While no state in the old continent has confirmed the existence of those dark places in his territory, according to a report by the European Parliament, the CIA ran 245 flights thousand through that airspace between late 2001 and 2007.
The dossier, unveiled in 2007, lamented that "European countries have ceded control over its airspace and airports, to take a blind eye or admitting flights operated by the CIA which, on occasion, were used for the illegal transportation of prisoners" .
This controversy is compounded by the ghost prisoners kidnapped on European territory and returned to other countries, secret operations on which perhaps many governments in the region were aware testified Swiss senator Dick Marty.
This is the case of Osama Mustafa Hassan, suspected terrorist and kidnapped in February 2003 by CIA agents in a street in the Italian city of Milan.
The Egyptian imam was sent on a military plane to Germany, where he was transferred to a prison in Egypt and probably tortured.
Marty points out in his report of January 2006 that the CIA is responsible for assisting and directing financially prisons in those countries where torture is practiced also in clear defiance of international conventions which prohibit it.
Of the 14 European countries that Swiss senator listed as partners in "unlawful interstate transfers" excel UK, Germany, Italy, Romania, Poland, Sweden and Czech Republic.
A fax system interfered by the Swiss Onyx, from the Foreign Minister of Egypt and led to its embassy in London said that 23 prisoners were secretly questioned by Americans in the Romanian International Airport "Mihail Kogalniceanu".
After years of complicit silence, the truth came to light: the CIA in Europe found the perfect hiding place for hide and torturing their prisoners ghosts.
Additional info: @ News Minute by Minute.
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