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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Quick Facts on the renditions story

Dick Marty, the Swiss investigator examining US rendition flights through Europe to the secret CIA prisons in Poland and Romania, has released a report detailing some of his findings. I found all the articles on this rather convoluted except this one with its nice brief summary.
Marty admits he has "no formal evidence" of secret CIA detention centres but says his report indicates many states had actively or passively taken part in the system of CIA secret flights and secret transfers known as renditions.

Among the charges:-

* Poland and Romania ran secret detention centres

* Germany, Turkey, Spain, Cyprus and Azerbaijan were "staging points" for flights involving the unlawful transfer of detainees

* Ireland, Britain, Portugal, Greece and Italy were "stopovers" for flights involving the unlawful transfer of detainees

* Sweden, Bosnia, Britain, the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, Germany and Turkey handed over suspects

* Cairo, Amman, Islamabad, Rabat, Kabul, Guantanamo Bay, Tashkent, Algiers and Baghdad served as detainee transfer/drop-off points

(Link from First Draft.)

posted by mikevotes at 9:04 AM

3 Comments:

  • You and I are thinking and blogging along the same lines again. :-)

    I'm just wondering if Frattini is going to follow through with his November threat to suspend the voting rights of any member state found to have cooperated with the CIA, in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:20 PM  

  • this is off topic but...

    I can't post a friggin thing all day today and YOU have four posts and pics up..wtf is that all about? should I be paranoid? blogger is playing favorites and it sucks ass:p

    By Blogger Unknown, at 8:27 PM  

  • Kvatch, at least you're not telling me I'm three weeks late this time. I must be catching up.

    And, I would guess the EU voting rights threat is going the way of steroids in baseball. You can't suspend everybody.

    And, Dusty, same problem. I just gave up after awhile, but it's back for now.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 9:12 PM  

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