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.
They are in secure, undisclosed locations.
The Germans demanding information on secret prison camps...Ironic to say the least!
Don't these people know you can't even tell yourself secret info. Morons.
"Yes, where are they? Oooh!"
You want to know the location of our secret jails? (banging on phone) Hello? Hello? Darn phone!
I guarantee even the prisoners didn't know where they were at and I'll also bet that it wasn't in Europe but more likely a remote island .
"We know nothing!!!"
Don't worry - the sugarglider's a fibber.
If we tell you, then we'll have to kill you.
"We know nothing!!!"
Who care what the EU wants to know about the "secret" prisons? They had a heck of a lot of them some 60 years ago, and thought it quite fine. To heck with them, they are nothing but a bunch of weak kneed yes people who will shortly be ruled by the mulsims (islam, turning their butts to the west) just like the knuckled under to Hitler. Ne knew the tenacity and weak backbone of Europeans. That's one of the reasons we were in Europe all those year ago, so save their sorry butts from communism, and the bolsheviks. These are my thoughts, and I lived there for a long time.
EU Demands? LOLOLOL
OK I give up, I'll tell you, Just don't torture me Wolfgang, they are in Strasbourg and Brussels.
Just so everyone else knows but Wolfgang, Strasbourg and Brussels are the homes of the European Parliament!
My bet is Poland, or some other Christian (former) east block country where they still remember the ole' Commie methods but have seen the bigger picture.
Near Cheney's secret bunker.
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