Posted on 09/07/2006 7:05:15 PM PDT by blam
Where are secret jails, the EU demands
By Alec Russell in Washington
(Filed: 08/09/2006)
European politicians yesterday called on Washington to reveal the sites of the CIA's secret prisons after President George W Bush's admission that terrorist prisoners had been held in clandestine foreign jails.
As Mr Bush hit the road to sell Wednesday's revelation of the "black sites" to the American public as a victory for his anti-terrorist policies, European politicians stepped up the pressure for further details.
"The location of these prison camps must be made public," said Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, a member of the European Parliament's committee investigating the CIA's alleged use of sites in Eastern Europe. "We need to know if there has been any complicity in illegal acts by governments of EU countries or of states seeking EU membership."
Allegations that the CIA held and tortured terrorist suspects in secret Eastern European prisons provoked fury in Europe last year and intensified already virulent anti-Americanism.
But in America the debate has been more muted and yesterday, far from being cowed or contrite as many European politicians expected, Mr Bush sought to capitalise on the impact of his statement.
In a speech in Atlanta, the latest in a series building up to Monday's anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, he argued that he had made America safer than it was five years ago. And in an address on Wednesday he said 14 top al-Qa'eda figures had been transferred from the secret prisons to Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial.
Mr Bush is hoping to secure the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre by getting Congress to approve a law authorising the tribunals.
It's none of their bleepin' business.
WEll, duh. If we told them it wouldn't be a secret now would it?
Look, if it's not in your country, what should it matter?
Bite me, Wolfgang
The Germans have an abiding and deep interest in secret prison camps and the goings on that might take place there.
They're secret, silly.
Drop dead Euro-clowns
The NYT is getting right on this.
In the words of "Number Six"; "That would be telling".
The "EU" didn't request this information. A few "EU politicians" asked for the information.
Do we even recognize the EU as a legitimate governing body? Are they even a legitimate governoring body given they can't get anybody to ratify their union?
Area 51
EU cant demand anything. What are they gonna do? Run to the UN? They need to STFU.
...far from being cowed or contrite as many European politicians expected...
There seems to be a lot of things European politicians don't expect. Like religeously motivated murder and mayhem. They just gotta quit projecting their own weakness.
These Euro-dhimmis are annoying same as ankle biting rat dogs
My reply is unprintable.
They are in my back yard. Want to see some pics???
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