Swiss journalists acquitted in case of leaked secret CIA torture prisons fax

[BurtWorm]

http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/04/18/swiss-journalists-acquitted-in-case-of-leaked-secret-cia-prisons-fax/


By AP.

ST. GALLEN, Switzerland: Three journalists were acquitted Tuesday of breaking Swiss military secrecy laws by publishing classified intelligence material about alleged secret CIA prisons in Europe.

A military tribunal ruled that SonntagsBlick reporters Sandro Brotz, Beat Jost and the weekly’s former editor-in-chief, Christoph Grenacher, had not revealed military secrets when they published a purported Egyptian government fax intercepted by the Swiss foreign intelligence agency.

The journalists said the document was discovered on a train.

The fax, details of which were published in the Zurich-based weekly in January 2006, alleged that the United States detained 23 Iraqi and Afghan terror suspects at a base in Romania.

SonntagsBlick said the fax was sent by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry to its embassy in London and contained allegations about similar U.S. detention centers in Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria.

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Allegations about secret CIA prisons in Europe had previously appeared in American newspapers, but the leak of the intercepted fax embarrassed the Swiss government.

A report by the European Parliament published in February named a number of countries that allegedly allowed the CIA to use their territory to transport terrorism suspects, in contravention of human rights standards. In September, U.S. President George W. Bush acknowledged that terrorism suspects have been held in CIA-run prisons overseas, but did not say where.

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More information on this story here:

http://www.atlargely.com/2007/04/cia_torture_fax.html

http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2007/04/swiss_journos_a.html

[BurtWorm]

1. kick

[lyonn]

2. Gotta keep them somewhere

Does the U.S. have rules on these sort of detentions? Why not use our prisons? Is this called the "new rules".

[BurtWorm]

3. Coffee and donut to the first person to translate the fax

http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=474580686&size=o

[struggle4progress]

8. I think this is approximately the gist

HEADLINE:
The Egyptians have sources, which confirm the existence of American secret prisons

~snip~ Message of the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs ~snip~

The message from their own sources indicates 23 Iraqi and Afghan citizens were actually interrogated at the Mihail Kogalniceanu Base near Constanza on the Black Sea. There are similar interrogation centers in the Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria. Some press mention that the NGO Human Rights Watch has evidence American military aircraft have transported prisoners from Kabul's Salt Pit Base to the Polish Szymany Base and the above-named Romanian base on 21 and 22 September 2005.

Despite these facts, the Romanian authorities continue to deny the existence of secret prisons, in which the American clandestine service interrogates al-Qaida members. The official denials of Romanians were accepted by the leader of the European delegation. ~snip~

[BurtWorm]

9. Thank you.

:donut: :thumbsup:

[Benhurst]

4. Good, the Nuremberg precident upheld. Such treason should be exposed. NT

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Excellent!

[BurtWorm]

6. kick

[BurtWorm]

7. kick