EU report says secret prisons were known (by 11 countries)

[Newsjock]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103AP_CIA_Secret_Prison.html

By CONSTANT BRAND
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Eleven European Union governments - including Britain, Poland and Germany - knew about secret CIA prisons operating in Europe, a draft European Parliament report concluded Tuesday.

The report presented to the EU assembly's special committee investigating allegations about the detention centers and CIA kidnappings in Europe called on governments to launch their own inquiries to determine whether human rights laws were violated. It criticized top EU officials, including foreign policy chief Javier Solana and anti-terror coordinator Gijs de Vries of "omissions and denials" during testimony to the committee.

The draft also said there were more than a thousand CIA flights in the European region.

... The report said 11 EU nations - Britain, Poland, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Cyprus - had knowledge of the alleged U.S. secret anti-terrorism measures taking place on European soil.

[RagingInMiami]

1. One day, we will have a global uprising

And the leaders of the "free world" will never know what hit them.

[ShockediSay]

2. Seems like it takes the EU to show us how an uncorrupted democracy

is supposed to work.

Bet they don't have a lot of super salaried lobby lawyers greasing their wheels.

[AlamoDemoc]

3. So they've been known? What to do abut it? Are there any left that is known right now?

too many questions unanswered!!!!

[lanlady]

4. Report Assails Collusion in Europe with CIA

WASHINGTON: A new European Parliament report on secret abductions, transportation and detention of terror suspects bluntly rejects the assertion by several European countries accused of being involved that they were unaware of a CIA program.

"Many governments cooperated passively or actively" with the CIA, said Giovanni Claudio Fava, the rapporteur leading a special inquiry. "They knew."

The report, issued in Brussels, offers new confirmation of the U.S. practice, with European complicity, of so-called extraordinary renditions - in which suspects were abducted, then reportedly transported to third countries to face harsh interrogation methods.

Fava's report follows another done for the Council of Europe, the leading European human rights watchdog organization. That report, led by Dick Marty, a Swiss member of Parliament, described what it said was a "reprehensible network" created by the U.S. intelligence agency, one that was allowed to exist through the "intentional or grossly negligent collusion of the European partners."

more....
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/28/news/detain.php

[xchrom]

5. the eu should remember this --

bushco kept saying 9-11 changed everything -- and that was code for ''we don't give a fuck about your interests.''

anyway -- the eu -- i hope -- realizes it's a new game.

[dipsydoodle]

6. a "reprehensible network"

and "intentional or grossly negligent collusion of the European partners."

Good accurate turns of phrase the guy uses.

I recall managing to find Claudio Fava email address on his website, about 2 months ago, but couldn't get into it - guess it had been inundated with adverse comments regarding the appalling antics of some EU governments.

[Javaman]

7. And Poland was one of the countries that had one of these "prisons"...

No shit, when moron* said, "don't forget poland". He certainly didn't.

However, it appears as if Poland has forgotten itself and the trail of dead the nazi's left in their concentration camps in that country.

We have a cancer on this earth.

[The2ndWheel]

8. How could secret prisons be known?

No shit the governments knew they existed. Kind of difficult not to when, you know, governments control land and air.

So they told us what was obvious from the fact that the prisons existed. Wow, thanks.