Rice says US does not condone torture, wins German support

[dutchdemocrat]

Rice says US does not condone torture, wins German support

BERLIN (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted here that the United States did not condone torture, as she won the support of Germany at the start of a tour beset by questions over secret CIA prisons.

In the first stop of the four-nation European tour, Rice said Tuesday that she and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had discussed "reports" that the CIA was using European airspace to fly terror suspects to secret prisons for interrogation.

Rice refused to be drawn on the existence of the prisons but reiterated her earlier comments that the United States did not revert to torture.

"The United States does not condone torture. It is against US law to be involved in torture or to conspire to commit torture and it is also against the US's international obligations," she told a press conference.

Rice said however that intelligence was "the absolute key" to saving lives in the fight against terror.

"This is a war in which intelligence is the absolute key to success," she said, as it was essential "to get to perpetrators of such crimes before they commit them."

SNIP

http://au.news.yahoo.com/051206/19/x3rm.html

Terrorism is nothing new in Europe BTW... it's been around since the sixties but has pretty much been snuffed out.

ETA, CCC, Action Directe, Brigate Rosse, ETA, IRA, The Bel­gian Cellules Communistes Combattantes (CCC), the French Direct Action (Action Directe), the Italian Red Brigades and First Line (Prima Linea), The Red Army Fraction (RAF), Baader-Meinhof-Group... etc. etc.