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sonz
01-10-2006, 07:12 PM
The CIA held 23 people in a secret prison in Romania and maintained similar detention facilities in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Macedonia and Kosovo, according to allegations contained in an Egyptian government fax obtained by Swiss Security services.

The fax offers the first "real evidence" that the U.S. interrogated suspects at secret prisons in Eastern Europe, European politicians said.

The highly-classified fax, sent late last year by Egypt's foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, to its embassy in London, was leaked by Switzerland's SonntagsBlick newspaper.

Although Egyptian officials declined to comment on the fax, Swiss officials asserted that the report was genuine and that its publication had led to an internal inquiry.

The sensational publication of documents proving the existence of secret CIA prisons comes after months of controversy over the U.S.'s use of abuse and inhuman interrogation methods, as well as extra-legal abductions, and accusations of running secret CIA detention camps or jails in Eastern Europe.

In the fax, Mr. Gheit discusses the fate of 23 detainees from Iraq and Afghanistan whom the U.S held at the Mihail Kogalniceanu air base in Romania on the Black Sea coast.

Mr. Aboul Gheit concluded: "Romanian authorities continue to deny the presence of secret prisons used by U.S. intelligence to interrogate members of Al Qaeda."

All countries accused of hosting CIA "black sites" - where detainees are being tortured to avoid domestic restrictions on interrogation methods, including Poland and Romania have repeatedly denied the charges.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Vasily Filipchuk said that “although the ministry was not responsible for prisons in Ukraine”, he could personally say that “the allegation in Switzerland's SonntagsBlick newspaper was 'absurd.”

Also Ukraine's Penitentiary and Security services rejected the report’s accusations.

Also the NATO, which has a 16,000-strong force in Kosovo, denied it has run any secret prisons in the province.
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