Report: CIA Has Secret al-Qaida Prison

[BlueWizard]

Report: CIA Has Secret al-Qaida Prison#0

Posted: 11/2/05 at 2:42pm

Has anyone heard of this? I'm surprised this story hasn't created a bigger stir.


"NEW YORK - The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al-Qaida captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement, the Washington Post reported.

The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, as well as a small center at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents, the paper said Tuesday on its Web site."

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"The CIA and the White House, citing national security concerns and the value of the program, have dissuaded Congress from demanding that the agency answer questions in open testimony about the conditions under which captives are held. Virtually nothing is known about who is kept in the facilities, what interrogation methods are employed with them, or how decisions are made about whether they should be detained or for how long.

While the Defense Department has produced volumes of public reports and testimony about its detention practices and rules after the abuse scandals at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and at Guantanamo Bay, the CIA has not even acknowledged the existence of its black sites. To do so, officials familiar with the program told the Post, could open the U.S. government to legal challenges, particularly in foreign courts, and increase the risk of political condemnation at home and abroad."


Report: CIA Has Secret al-Qaida Prison

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[BlueWizard]

re: Report: CIA Has Secret al-Qaida Prison#1

Posted: 11/2/05 at 2:45pm

Here's a link to the actual Washington Post article.
Terror Suspects Held by CIA in Secret Prisons

BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."

[brdlwyr]

re: Report: CIA Has Secret al-Qaida Prison#2

Posted: 11/2/05 at 2:45pm

It is above the fold in the Chicago Right Wing Tribune today.

[PalJoey]

re: Report: CIA Has Secret al-Qaida Prison#3

Posted: 11/2/05 at 2:46pm

This was the subject of the "Proud to Be an American" thread this AM.
Proud to Be an American thread

[lildogs]

re: Report: CIA Has Secret al-Qaida Prison#4

Posted: 11/2/05 at 2:47pm

Why do I have the suspicion that this isn't the whole story? The CIA trained Osama, right? Of course, I have no doubt that places such as this have probably existed since the end of WWII.

[JohnPopa]

re: Report: CIA Has Secret al-Qaida Prison#5

Posted: 11/2/05 at 2:57pm

You know what -- I don't have a problem with this. I have no doubt that CIA black ops does things that we as Americans who think we're the high road don't want them to do and at some point ... well, they have to do what they have to do.