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| Polish probe into alleged CIA jails |
| 2005-12-10 |
| Poland's prime minister announced Saturday he was ordering a "detailed" probe into allegations that the CIA ran secret prisons for terrorist suspects on Polish territory. "I am commissioning a detailed check in all places possible to precisely check if there is any proof that such an event took place in our country," Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz said in remarks shown on Poland's TVN24 television channel. "It is necessary to finally close the issue because it could be dangerous to Poland," he said. Marcinkiewicz's spokesman, Konrad Ciesiolkiewicz, said he didn't know who would carry out the check and had no details of how the government planned to look into the allegations. More than a half-dozen investigations are under way into whether European countries may have hosted secret U.S.-run prisons in which prisoners were tortured, and whether European airports and airspace were used for alleged CIA flights transporting prisoners to countries where torture is practiced. Polish officials have repeatedly denied that their territory was used in this way. However, Marc Garlasco, a senior military analyst for the New York-based Human Rights Watch, said in remarks published Friday that Poland was the chief CIA detention site in Europe, part of a system of clandestine prisons for interrogating al-Qaida suspects. "Poland was the main base of interrogating prisoners and Romania was more of a hub," Garlasco was quoted as saying in Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. "This is what our sources from the CIA tell us and what is shown from the documents we gathered." Poland's outgoing President Aleksander Kwasniewski reiterated this week that "there are no such prisons or such prisoners on Polish territory." On November 28, he went further, saying, "there never have been" such jails. The Council of Europe, the continent's top human rights watchdog, has also launched an investigation. EU leaders say any member states found to have been involved in such prisons could have their voting rights suspended. In an interview for a Polish newspaper, ex-CIA analyst and State Dept. counterterrorism official Larry Johnson has a theory that after Abu Ghraib, CIA agents do not trust the Bush administration to protect people who simply carry out orders. Hence they are raising alarms about these secret prisons to avoid becoming scapegoats. |
| Posted by:Rafael |
| #4 CIA agents do not trust the Bush administration to protect people who simply carry out orders And only simple minded people fall for that kind of simple explanation. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-12-10 20:18 |
| #3 Larry Johnson should listen to his GrandMama |
| Posted by: doc 2005-12-10 18:52 |
#2 Larry Johnson is the same twit who wrote:Valerie Plame was an undercover operations officer until outed in the press by Robert Novak. Novak's column was not an isolated attack. It was in fact part of a coordinated, orchestrated smear that we now know includes at least Karl Rove. I presume he is on Howlin Howie's payroll. |
| Posted by: Graing Clinetch8592 2005-12-10 17:39 |
| #1 Larry Johnson should stay off crack. At Abu Ghraib, they were disobeying orders -- despite their claims to have been ordered, they were unable to produce the names of anyone who gave them orders. And, honestly, anyone whose resume includes the CIA and State is about as trustworthy as Saddam himself. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-12-10 17:06 |