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U.N. Expert Wants to See Purported Prisons
AP ^ | March 30, 2006 | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER

Posted on 03/31/2006 11:28:21 AM PST by Cboldt

GENEVA (AP) - The United Nations' special investigator on torture said Thursday he was certain that there are secret U.S. prisons in Europe and he wants access to them.

Manfred Nowak said he had proof that secret U.S. prisons continue to operate in Europe.

"I am 100 percent sure. I have evidence," Nowak said in an interview with The Associated Press.

He cited a U.S. refusal to provide details or records of interrogations later used in terrorism trials in Germany. He did not explain how that was proof of the ongoing existence of U.S. prisons in Europe, and he did not offer other examples. ...

The United States neither confirms nor denies the allegations of secret prisons, because it refuses to comment on intelligence matters. It has noted that the Council of Europe's report found no specific evidence to support claims of the existence of detention camps in Europe like the one in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: cia; prisons; wot
Manfred seems to be a bit of a psychic.
1 posted on 03/31/2006 11:28:22 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt; All
"I am 100 percent sure. I have evidence

2 posted on 03/31/2006 11:30:45 AM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: Cboldt

Give him a 1-way ticket.


3 posted on 03/31/2006 11:34:21 AM PST by YouPosting2Me
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To: Cboldt
"I am 100 percent sure. I have evidence,"

Then what does he need to see them for?

4 posted on 03/31/2006 11:34:34 AM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Cboldt

And we care what the UN wants, why?


5 posted on 03/31/2006 11:34:52 AM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: bill1952

I think we put them all in . . . . IRAN !!!!!


6 posted on 03/31/2006 11:55:08 AM PST by Jambe ( Save the Cows ! -- Eat a Vegan !!!)
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To: Cboldt

I want to see America removed from the UN and the UN dismantled from our soil.


7 posted on 03/31/2006 11:56:07 AM PST by samcgwire (samcgwire was not here today)
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To: Cboldt

I'm sure the UN has done good things in the world to stop poverty & starvation but I need to see the evidence, too.

/expressed with extreme sarcasm & snort!


8 posted on 03/31/2006 12:09:03 PM PST by BlessedByLiberty (Respectfully submitted,)
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To: Cboldt
"I am 100 percent sure. I have evidence," Nowak said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Then you must know where the places are.

9 posted on 03/31/2006 12:10:55 PM PST by Mike Darancette (In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: Cboldt

I demand to see Santa Clause
He exists, I have proof
who else could have eaten those cookies


10 posted on 03/31/2006 12:13:31 PM PST by txroadhawg ("Stuck on stupid? I invented stupid! " Al Gore)
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