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| Mission: Impossible |
| 2006-03-05 |
| U.S. intelligence officials say clandestine interrogations of captured al Qaeda and other terrorists have taken place throughout both Eastern and Western Europe. But there are no permanent secret prisons there, contrary to widespread published reports. The joint interrogations are at the bottom of accusations that several European states are running secret prisons for al Qaeda prisoners on behalf of the United States. So far, no secret prisons have been found or acknowledged by any European state, despite months of investigations. Instead, what is going on, we are told, is that al Qaeda terrorists are sent temporarily to allied countries throughout the continent for questioning. The covert flights of intelligence aircraft carrying the prisoners triggered the false speculation about the prisons, the officials said. The questioning is part of broad international intelligence cooperation that emerged after the September 11, 2001, attacks. "We've let allied services take a crack at these guys," said one official familiar with the program. The European services often seek answers to more specific questions related to Islamic extremist groups and operations in their nation or region. Additionally, allied European intelligence and security services have cooperated with the CIA and other U.S. agencies in setting up elaborate deception programs to support the interrogations. The top-secret programs involve moving terrorists to Europe and then placing them in carefully constructed environments that are designed to make it appear that they are in a Middle Eastern nation, where interrogation methods are harsher. The deception involves employing third-country nationals who are present and who speak the same language as the country being portrayed. The terrorists then are told to cooperate and disclose what they know or face transfer to the control of a government such as those in Syria, Turkey or Israel, where they can expect to be tortured or killed. The false-environment interrogation technique has produced valuable intelligence on al Qaeda and other Islamic plans and operations, the officials said. The cooperative states were not identified individually but include nations that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld once called old Europe and new Europe, the officials said. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #3 This screws our interrogation tactics. WTF now every terrorist will know or even if real believe the situation fake until the screws start turning. This is going to cost lives because I got $100 bucks that say to get one of these A-holes to a Muslim nation and or getting permit ion from brass to torture to turn these pukes are nill-0. In the beginning it says “intelligence officials” is this leaked or released?? If this is leaked somebody’s head better freekin role. If this is released someone needs to be fired for been a dum f*ck. This information will be detrimental to the breaking of future captured terrorist. These leaks must be stopped and maximum punishment delivered immediately. If laws need to be changed do it this is unacceptable Treason. Just because the info was not delivered directly to the enemy but instead was published in a newspaper don’t change the end result—Assistance to our Enemies—Dead US soldiers and civilians who could have been avoided. I am really pissed right now. |
| Posted by: C-Low 2006-03-05 22:53 |
| #2 Aw man, you can't fake them out like that. That's even worse than torture. |
| Posted by: Danking70 2006-03-05 22:38 |
| #1 And that Swiss asshole Dick Marty's 15 minutes are up, lol. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-03-05 21:41 |