CIA 'has secret terror jails'
Aljazeera.Net - CIA 'has secret terror jails': "The CIA is holding some of its most important suspect al-Qaida captives in a network of secret prisons including one at a Soviet-era facility in Eastern Europe, the Washington Post reports.
According to the paper the locations of the facilities 'are known to only a handful of officials in the United States and, usually, only to the president and a few top intelligence officers in each host country.'
The facilities are referred to as 'black sites' in classified White House, CIA, Justice Department and congressional documents, the Post said.
The report did not disclose the names of the Eastern European countries involved in the programme, at the request of senior US officials. Officials believed disclosure might disrupt counterterrorism efforts in those countries and elsewhere.
The secret facilities are part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA after the September 11 attacks, that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, the Post reported.
Another small center operated at the Guantanamo Bay prison complex in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents, the paper said.
Prisoner information
Virtually nothing is known about who is kept in the facilities or what interrogation methods are used.
But the revelations of widespread prisoner abuse in Afghanistan and Iraq by the US military - which operates under published rules and transparent oversight of Congress - have increased concern among lawmakers, foreign governments and human rights groups about the opaque CIA system.
The CIA has sent more than 100 suspects to the hidden global internment network, the Post said, indicating that the number was a rough estimate and did not include prisoners picked up from Iraq.
Considerable concern lingers about the legality, morality and practicality of holding even unrepentant terrorists in such isolation and secrecy."
According to the paper the locations of the facilities 'are known to only a handful of officials in the United States and, usually, only to the president and a few top intelligence officers in each host country.'
The facilities are referred to as 'black sites' in classified White House, CIA, Justice Department and congressional documents, the Post said.
The report did not disclose the names of the Eastern European countries involved in the programme, at the request of senior US officials. Officials believed disclosure might disrupt counterterrorism efforts in those countries and elsewhere.
The secret facilities are part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA after the September 11 attacks, that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, the Post reported.
Another small center operated at the Guantanamo Bay prison complex in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents, the paper said.
Prisoner information
Virtually nothing is known about who is kept in the facilities or what interrogation methods are used.
But the revelations of widespread prisoner abuse in Afghanistan and Iraq by the US military - which operates under published rules and transparent oversight of Congress - have increased concern among lawmakers, foreign governments and human rights groups about the opaque CIA system.
The CIA has sent more than 100 suspects to the hidden global internment network, the Post said, indicating that the number was a rough estimate and did not include prisoners picked up from Iraq.
Considerable concern lingers about the legality, morality and practicality of holding even unrepentant terrorists in such isolation and secrecy."
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