Post by Jaga on Aug 12, 2007 8:51:52 GMT -7
Terrorist glimpsed Polish writing on water bottle in secret CIA jail – US magazine
American weekly The New Yorker in its latest issue, dated August 13, 2007, carries an investigative article The Black Sites by Jane Mayer, bringing up a rare look inside the United States CIA’s secret interrogation program and returns to the issue of secret jails for terrorists in Central Europe, including Poland. Government in Warsaw has strongly and repeatedly denied that any black sites were established in the country.
A terrorist in US custody - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Al-Qaeda leader who was the primary architect of the September 11 attacks, was interrogated in the framework of a secret CIA program, initiated after September 11, in which terrorist suspects were detained in “black sites”—secret prisons outside the United States, The New Yorker says. According to the magazine, the program was effectively suspended last fall, when President Bush announced that he was emptying the CIA’s prisons and transferring the detainees to military custody in Guantanamo.
A complete picture of Mohammed’s time in secret detention remains elusive, Mayer writes. She points out that a partial narrative has still emerged through interviews with European and American sources in intelligence, government, and legal circles, as well as with former detainees who have been released from CIA custody. One day, Mohammed was apparently transferred to a specially designated prison for high-value detainees in Poland, The New Yorker concludes. AIA already wrote that such transfers were so secretive, according to the report by the Council of Europe, that the CIA filed dummy flight plans, indicating that the planes were heading elsewhere. Once Polish air space was entered, the Polish aviation authority would secretly shepherd the flight, leaving no public documentation, the magazine marks. The Council of Europe report notes that the Polish authorities would file a one-way flight plan out of the country, creating a false paper trail.
The magazine alleges that no more than a dozen high-value detainees were held at the Polish black site, and none have been released from government custody; accordingly, no first-hand accounts of conditions there have emerged. But, according to well-informed sources, it was a far more high-tech facility than the prisons in Afghanistan. The above mentioned Mohammed had no idea where he was, although, at one point, he apparently glimpsed Polish writing on a water bottle, according to The New Yorker. The inquiry source said that most of the Poland detainees were waterboarded, including Mohammed, the magazine adds.
www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1361
American weekly The New Yorker in its latest issue, dated August 13, 2007, carries an investigative article The Black Sites by Jane Mayer, bringing up a rare look inside the United States CIA’s secret interrogation program and returns to the issue of secret jails for terrorists in Central Europe, including Poland. Government in Warsaw has strongly and repeatedly denied that any black sites were established in the country.
A terrorist in US custody - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Al-Qaeda leader who was the primary architect of the September 11 attacks, was interrogated in the framework of a secret CIA program, initiated after September 11, in which terrorist suspects were detained in “black sites”—secret prisons outside the United States, The New Yorker says. According to the magazine, the program was effectively suspended last fall, when President Bush announced that he was emptying the CIA’s prisons and transferring the detainees to military custody in Guantanamo.
A complete picture of Mohammed’s time in secret detention remains elusive, Mayer writes. She points out that a partial narrative has still emerged through interviews with European and American sources in intelligence, government, and legal circles, as well as with former detainees who have been released from CIA custody. One day, Mohammed was apparently transferred to a specially designated prison for high-value detainees in Poland, The New Yorker concludes. AIA already wrote that such transfers were so secretive, according to the report by the Council of Europe, that the CIA filed dummy flight plans, indicating that the planes were heading elsewhere. Once Polish air space was entered, the Polish aviation authority would secretly shepherd the flight, leaving no public documentation, the magazine marks. The Council of Europe report notes that the Polish authorities would file a one-way flight plan out of the country, creating a false paper trail.
The magazine alleges that no more than a dozen high-value detainees were held at the Polish black site, and none have been released from government custody; accordingly, no first-hand accounts of conditions there have emerged. But, according to well-informed sources, it was a far more high-tech facility than the prisons in Afghanistan. The above mentioned Mohammed had no idea where he was, although, at one point, he apparently glimpsed Polish writing on a water bottle, according to The New Yorker. The inquiry source said that most of the Poland detainees were waterboarded, including Mohammed, the magazine adds.
www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1361