Europeans nations 'hampering CIA prison probe' (Reuters/CNN)

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BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) -- European countries knew about U.S. secret jails for terrorism suspects and have obstructed an investigation into the transport and illegal detention of prisoners, a draft European Parliament report said on Tuesday.

It criticized a string of top EU officials including foreign policy chief Javier Solana and counter-terrorism coordinator Gijs de Vries, and complained of lack of cooperation from nearly all member states.

The report said Nicolo Pollari, former head of Italy's SISMI intelligence service, had "concealed the truth" when he told a European Parliament committee in March that Italian agents had played no part in the CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric.

On the contrary, SISMI officials played an active role in the abduction of Abu Omar, and it was "very probable" that the Italian government knew of the operation, the report said.

The government of Silvio Berlusconi, who was in power at the time, repeatedly denied any knowledge. His successor Romano Prodi last week named a new head of SISMI to replace Pollari, who faces possible indictment over the Abu Omar affair but denies any wrongdoing.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/06/12/spain.cia/index.html

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