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Poland orders probe into alleged CIA jails
(AP)
Updated: 2005-12-11 10:55
Quoting unidentified former airport employees, the paper said Saturday the
planes remained on the runway and did not refuel. Only border control officials
and mini vans approached the aircraft. One former employee said the vans were
from nearby Kiejkuty, the site of a training school for Poland's intelligence
services.
A former chief of Poland's intelligence agency, Zbibniew Siemietkowski, told
the newspaper that Poland and American spies had cooperated "intensively" since
the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"It would be entirely normal if Americans landed in Mazury," Siemietkowski
said, referring to the region where both the airport and intelligence school are
located.
Marc Garlasco, a senior military analyst for the New York-based Human Rights
Watch, said in remarks published Friday in Gazeta Wyborcza that Poland was the
chief CIA detention site in Europe, part of a system of clandestine prisons for
interrogating al-Qaida suspects.
The Council of Europe, the continent's top human rights watchdog, has also
launched an investigation into the secret CIA prisons. EU leaders say any member
states found to have been involved in such prisons could have their voting
rights suspended.
Secret facilities and harsh interrogation methods would violate European
human rights conventions.
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