Surprise, surprise, European nations knew of secret CIA jails. At least that’s what a European parliament report says. A special committee has been investigating the entire CIA secret jails issue for months. The committee was led by Claudio Fava, who said that “Many governments co-operated passively or actively with the CIA”. High ranking EU officials including foreign policy chief Javier Solana were accused by Mister Fava of refusing to provide details about the affair. Another report by the Council of Europe pretty much came to the same conclusion as this report. There has been no hard evidence of secret CIA jails on European territory. The jails were allegedly used in the US War against Terror. US media earlier reported that detention centers were set up in Romania (a future EU member) and Poland (a current EU member). Both nations deny the accusations.
He accused top EU officials including foreign policy chief Javier Solana of failing to give full details to MEPs.
The report echoed allegations made in June by the Council of Europe - Europe’s leading human rights watchdog - that European states were complicit in illegal CIA operations as part of the US-led “war on terror”.
US President George W Bush admitted in September that the CIA had used prisons abroad for the secret detention of terror suspects, but he did not specify where the prisons were.
He insisted the suspects had not been tortured.
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