06-01 CIA prisons in Poland: former prosecutor had planned to file charges. According to Gazeta Wyborcza, Jerzy Mierzewski, the prosecutor investigating alleged CIA prisons on Polish territory, was removed from the case because he had planned to file charges of breach of the constitution, false imprisonment and assistance in crimes against humanity.
This move came shortly after a lawyer acting for a Guantanamo detainee filed a complaint against Poland at the European Court of Human Rights, and a week before President Obama's visit to Poland. Recent days have seen a number of articles on alleged CIA rendition flights and prisons on Polish territory in the Polish press. These were also prompted by a statement former MEP Józef Pinior made to Gazeta Wyborcza, saying that there is a memorandum signed by former PM Leszek Miller regulating the operations of a planned CIA prison on Polish territory. Miller strongly denies this. For other WL Central coverage on the topic please see here.
CIA prison in Poland. Poland is under increasing pressure to investigate fully whether the CIA operated secret torture and detention facilities in Stare Kiejkuty.
As Peter Kemp predicted, the European Parliament has now intervened. In a resolution from the eighth of June it says that it: "5. Reiterates its call to the US authorities to review the military commissions system to ensure fair trials, to close Guantánamo, to prohibit in any circumstances the use of torture, ill-treatment, incommunicado detention, indefinite detention without trial and enforced disappearances, and reminds the EU institutions and Member States of their duty not to collaborate in, or cover up, such acts prohibited by international, European and national law;" "7. Drift: How This Ship Became a Floating Gitmo. This is the U.S.S.
Boxer. A big-deck amphibious assault ship, the “Golden Gator” displaces about 40,500 tons and provides a working home for more than 2,000 troops. Recently, its brig held a less likely passenger, Danger Room has confirmed: Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, a Somali whom the United States just charged with supporting al-Shabaab and al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. But if Warsame’s case is the future of terrorism detentions, that’s going to be a problem. The Navy simply doesn’t have enough ships with the brig space to serve as a floating Guantanamo Bay. Out of the Navy’s 286 ships, only its 11 aircraft carriers and 10 big-deck amphibious assault ships really have brigs to lock up potential dangerous detainees. “When someone is confined on surface ships,” explains retired Rear Adm. The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia. Nestled in a back corner of Mogadishu's Aden Adde International Airport is a sprawling walled compound run by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Set on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the facility looks like a small gated community, with more than a dozen buildings behind large protective walls and secured by guard towers at each of its four corners. Adjacent to the compound are eight large metal hangars, and the CIA has its own aircraft at the airport. The site, which airport officials and Somali intelligence sources say was completed four months ago, is guarded by Somali soldiers, but the Americans control access. At the facility, the CIA runs a counterterrorism training program for Somali intelligence agents and operatives aimed at building an indigenous strike force capable of snatch operations and targeted "combat" operations against members of Al Shabab, an Islamic militant group with close ties to Al Qaeda. Military Denies Having a Secret Afghan Torture Jail. BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Walking out of the new detention center and out into the dusty courtyard, I’ve got one final question for Gen.
Mark Martins, one rooted in the U.S.’ post-9/11 history of detainee abuse: Is this all there is? Or, stripped to its subtext: Do you have any hidden torture chambers; and if so, can we pop in? Martins, the Army one-star responsible for the day-to-day operations of the complex known as the Detention Facility In Parwan, drove from Kabul to escort me on a 90-minute tour of the place. His objective is plain: convince an American journalist that the abuse associated with the old detention site at Bagram is a relic of the past. Martins has moved me through Parwan briskly.
Entering the back seat of the SUV that’ll take us back within Bagram’s main gates, Martins looks me in the eye. For nearly a year, human rights groups have had trouble believing him. But Martins is categorical. Commandos Hold Afghan Detainees in Secret Jails. Terror suspects held weeks in secret - Marine Corps News. By Kimberly Dozier - The Associated Press Posted : Friday Apr 8, 2011 7:30:02 EDT KABUL, Afghanistan — “Black sites,” the secret network of jails that grew up after the Sept. 11 attacks, are gone.
But suspected terrorists are still being held under hazy circumstances with uncertain rights in secret, military-run jails across Afghanistan, where they can be interrogated for weeks without charge, according to U.S. officials who revealed details of the top-secret network to The Associated Press. The Pentagon has previously denied operating secret jails in Afghanistan, although human rights groups and former detainees have described the facilities. U.S. military and other government officials confirmed that the detention centers exist but described them as temporary holding pens whose primary purpose is to gather intelligence. The Pentagon also has said that detainees only stay in temporary detention sites for 14 days, unless they are extended under extraordinary circumstances.