UN turns spotlight on CIA rendition

[helderheid]

Mon, 21 May 2007 16:30:32

A United Nations anti-torture panel says it is concerned about allegations that Poland housed CIA-run prisons for terrorist suspects.

The UN Committee Against Torture has urged Poland to share the details of an investigation carried out by its parliament rejecting charges of Polish participation in the secret CIA prison network.

The committee of 10 independent experts has noted a Polish delegation statement ``emphatically refuting all allegations'' of clandestine detention centers on its soil, but said it needed more information from the parliament's confidential inquiry.

US President George W. Bush acknowledged last year that the so-called terrorism suspects were held in CIA-run prisons overseas, but did not say where. The campaign group Human Rights Watch previously identified Poland and Romania as possible locations on European territory, but both countries denied involvement.

According to Amnesty International, some victims of rendition have later turned up in official US detention centers, such as Guantanamo Bay, but others have simply "disappeared" after being arrested by US agents or turned over to US custody.

It has been reported that the CIA, often using covert aircraft leased by front companies, has flown individuals to other countries. Most of the states to which the US transfers these individuals are known to use torture and other ill-treatment in interrogations.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=10544§ionid=3510206

[Rex]

1. CIA-run prisons overseas

The POTUS admitted to that when it was leaked (would have denied it if a cover-up was possible) and now America is knowingly housing alleged terrorist suspects. In some other country.

Wow. How has it come to this?

[helderheid]

2. It's because we forgot Poland.

I know... it's just horrific.

[helderheid]

3. Wasn't it LaLaRaRa that originally uncovered this story?

[helderheid]

5. YES! SHE broke this in MARCH!!

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Sovietera_compound_in_Poland_was_site_0307.html

[helderheid]

7. k for la la ra ra

[Solly Mack]

4. Concerned? Concerned?

snort...

[helderheid]

6. makes you shake your head doesn't it? I'm glad the story after being broke by DU's own LaLa_RaRa

FINALLY has some legs in the corporate media

[helderheid]

8. I have to kick this

[Richard Steele]

10. I understand, because I have to kick it as well. nm

[helderheid]

11. Thanks very much - I am pretty surprised this one keeps falling

:hi:

[Richard Steele]

12. Maybe the title isn't "sexy" enough or something?

I'm often puzzled by which threads sink and which don't.

To me, the fact that the United Nations is finally looking into
our secret worldwide system of torture chambers seems like a pretty
big deal.

:shrug:

[helderheid]

13. How about SEXY LALA_RARA's NEWS STORY FROM MARCH NOW MAKES MSM!

[helderheid]

9. shocked and going to bed.

[Rex]

14. Kick!

Because this needs to be seen.

[lala_rawraw]

15. holy shite, i just saw this...

thanks for posting. not sure how to make it more sexy... a photo of me writing the story? or maybe we can nickname it Anna Nicole Smith's

[helderheid]

16. maybe you could re-post it so people could rec it