18-04-2009, 06:36 AM
What ever happened to the UK inquires on the same matter - secret rendition using UK territory? It has gone right off the radar. As they hoped it would I am sure.
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Miller government knew about CIA prisons in Poland?
Created: 15.04.2009 16:25
The government under the premiership of Leszek Miller (2001-4) knew about the alleged CIA detention facility in Poland, the existence of which has been denied by successive governments.
The Rzeczpospolita daily front pages what is presented as an ‘exclusive’: that secret CIA prisons located in Szymany, northeastern Poland, were not only known about by Miller’s government but that they actively covered them up.
Miller, when confronted with the allegations by TV journalists before - the accusations are not new - described them as, ""a fairy tale."
Rzeczpospolita writes that the existence of the prison has been verified, not only by its own reporters, but also by public broadcaster TVP Info journalists who are in possession of documents that undermine the stance of Polish authorities, which have claimed that they never cooperated with the CIA to this extent.
TVP Info and Rzeczpospolita also report that they have found a witness who had seen blindfolded and handcuffed prisoners being taken out of a plane which landed at Szymany airport.
Rzeczpospolita claims to have a source inside the Polish military who maintains that there was indeed a CIA base bear the Szymany airbase, and who says that the “Americans have something to thank Poland for.”
Reports by Polish journalists that documents exist confirming the prisons in Poland are not new, however, and even the above quote that Americans have something to thank Poland for has featured in earlier stories made by other publications.
In September 2008 Gazeta Wyborcza ran a report stating that Polish prosecutors obtained a top secret memorandum from either late 2005 or early 2006 showing that a CIA prison existed from around 2003 onwards and closed in 2005.
Gazeta Wyborcza then quoted unnamed sources saying that they had seen the document, but who did not explicitly say that the prison served as a holding center for al-Qaeda terrorist suspects.
Gazeta reported that according to the document the secret prison was set up after the US and Poland signed an accord in 2002 to combat terrorism, following the 9/11 attacks in the US.
Flight logs
Today’s reports in Rzeczpospolita and TVP Info rehash information already made in the report by the Council of Europe - Secret detentions and illegal transfers of detainees involving Council of Europe member states: second report - and published back in June 2007.Rzeczpospolita and TVP Info say that on 5 December 2002 at 14:56 a Gulfstream aircraft numbered N63MU landed at Szymany airport carrying CIA operatives who had arrived to set up the secret base at the small town of Stare Kiejkuty, 20 km from the airstrip, in buildings which had housed a secret intelligence unit No 2669, unofficially the Intelligence Personnel Training Center
Later, another Gulfstream aircraft numbered N379P began flying in and out of Szymany from the 8 February 2003 when it touched down on a flight from Rabat, Morocco.
The information on the aircraft was based on flight logs which have been public for sometime and have never been disputed.
The new reports allege, however, that according to Eurocontrol, an institution which directs plane traffic, a gulfstream N379P flew from Tashkent to Glasgow on 31st July. In reality on 30th July the plane, flying from Kabul, landed in Szymany, where it was refueled. Rzeczpospolita claims to have a sale invoice of the fuel used for the flight.
Successive governments have denied any knowledge of the CIA ‘black sites’ in Poland since the accusations were first made by Human Rights Watch late in 2005. The present prime minister, Donald Tusk, earlier announced that he had asked the Public Prosecutor to launch a special investigation to look into the matter.
http://www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/forei...ns_in.html
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Miller government knew about CIA prisons in Poland?
Created: 15.04.2009 16:25
The government under the premiership of Leszek Miller (2001-4) knew about the alleged CIA detention facility in Poland, the existence of which has been denied by successive governments.
The Rzeczpospolita daily front pages what is presented as an ‘exclusive’: that secret CIA prisons located in Szymany, northeastern Poland, were not only known about by Miller’s government but that they actively covered them up.
Miller, when confronted with the allegations by TV journalists before - the accusations are not new - described them as, ""a fairy tale."
Rzeczpospolita writes that the existence of the prison has been verified, not only by its own reporters, but also by public broadcaster TVP Info journalists who are in possession of documents that undermine the stance of Polish authorities, which have claimed that they never cooperated with the CIA to this extent.
TVP Info and Rzeczpospolita also report that they have found a witness who had seen blindfolded and handcuffed prisoners being taken out of a plane which landed at Szymany airport.
Rzeczpospolita claims to have a source inside the Polish military who maintains that there was indeed a CIA base bear the Szymany airbase, and who says that the “Americans have something to thank Poland for.”
Reports by Polish journalists that documents exist confirming the prisons in Poland are not new, however, and even the above quote that Americans have something to thank Poland for has featured in earlier stories made by other publications.
In September 2008 Gazeta Wyborcza ran a report stating that Polish prosecutors obtained a top secret memorandum from either late 2005 or early 2006 showing that a CIA prison existed from around 2003 onwards and closed in 2005.
Gazeta Wyborcza then quoted unnamed sources saying that they had seen the document, but who did not explicitly say that the prison served as a holding center for al-Qaeda terrorist suspects.
Gazeta reported that according to the document the secret prison was set up after the US and Poland signed an accord in 2002 to combat terrorism, following the 9/11 attacks in the US.
Flight logs
Today’s reports in Rzeczpospolita and TVP Info rehash information already made in the report by the Council of Europe - Secret detentions and illegal transfers of detainees involving Council of Europe member states: second report - and published back in June 2007.Rzeczpospolita and TVP Info say that on 5 December 2002 at 14:56 a Gulfstream aircraft numbered N63MU landed at Szymany airport carrying CIA operatives who had arrived to set up the secret base at the small town of Stare Kiejkuty, 20 km from the airstrip, in buildings which had housed a secret intelligence unit No 2669, unofficially the Intelligence Personnel Training Center
Later, another Gulfstream aircraft numbered N379P began flying in and out of Szymany from the 8 February 2003 when it touched down on a flight from Rabat, Morocco.
The information on the aircraft was based on flight logs which have been public for sometime and have never been disputed.
The new reports allege, however, that according to Eurocontrol, an institution which directs plane traffic, a gulfstream N379P flew from Tashkent to Glasgow on 31st July. In reality on 30th July the plane, flying from Kabul, landed in Szymany, where it was refueled. Rzeczpospolita claims to have a sale invoice of the fuel used for the flight.
Successive governments have denied any knowledge of the CIA ‘black sites’ in Poland since the accusations were first made by Human Rights Watch late in 2005. The present prime minister, Donald Tusk, earlier announced that he had asked the Public Prosecutor to launch a special investigation to look into the matter.
http://www.polskieradio.pl/thenews/forei...ns_in.html
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