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Post by Bonobo on Sept 7, 2010 20:46:10 GMT 1
5 years ago I argued in the Russian Forum that there weren`t CIA prisons in Poland. Russians and pro-Russian Americans objected and mentioned the proofs from their sources.
I wrote:
Hmm, I seriously doubt it. It sounds too ridiculous to be true. But may be I am wrong...
It is probable there was some detention center organised by CIA in Poland.
However, I believe Polish authorities didn`t know about it except for a few big shot guys from secret sevices. Polish and American intelligence has already had a tradition of cooperation which goes back to first Gulf War in 1990-1, when Poles saved American spies in Iraq. History proves that intelligence services tend to evade the control of the state and try to be independent. The same applies to Polish ones.
If Polish authorities had known about it, they wouldn`t have been able to withhold such an information for too long. In Poland, from time to time, there have been political leaks from government people who play their own games, revealing some secret news to the media. Also the opposition parties would have eagerly made use of it to attack the former socialist government.
The press hungry for scandalous news would have discovered it too.
Nothing like that had happened. The scandal was revealed by a foreign organization and it was like a bolt from the blue sky.
A recent article:
Shedding Light on Black Sites
Aleksandra Lefek | 7th September 2010
New reports surface on CIA prisons in Europe
At the end of July 2010 the Polish Office of Border Security gave a number of recently-released documents to the Poland-based Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR), which for the first time provided details of transported passengers, including possible terrorism suspects, on seven of the CIA flights to a secret prison in Poland between December 2002 and September 2003.
The documents disclosed information about the secret prison at Szymany in the northeast of Poland, a so-called “black site”, and added information about the program in Romania.
On 9 August the Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza published an interview with the head of the legal division of the HFHR, Adam Bodnar. The journalist asked if Polish prosecutors are considering charging the highest ranked officials for the secret prisons that they allegedly allowed the CIA to set up in Poland when the War on Terror was at its height. These include former President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former Prime Minister Leszek Miller, ex-Minister of the Interior and Administration Krzysztof Janik, and Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, the former head of the Polish Intelligence Agency.
Adam Bodnar, secretary of the management of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, said, “We can only guess what evidence the prosecution may have, as the investigation is fully classified. The crime could consist of handing over part of our territory to American jurisdiction, and creating an ex-territorial base and allowing the possibility that people could illegally be deprived of freedom and perhaps even tortured.”
The prosecutor’s office may lay charges in front of the State Tribunal of War Crimes against former President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and former Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Mr. Kwaśniewski told Gazeta Wyborcza that Poland co-operated with the American Central Intelligence Agency but he absolutely denies that there were secret prisons in Poland. “There was no prison,” he said. “I don’t have any information about the Americans torturing prisoners in Poland.”
Another former minister in Mr. Miller’s Cabinet, Tadeusz Iwiński, denied on TOK FM radio that he had ever admitted that CIA prisons existed in Poland, even though he had earlier told the press that the CIA did run a detention centre in Kiejkuty, and that people from countries such as Afghanistan or Morocco had been brought to Poland.
Although the Polish as well as the Romanian governments denied claims that the CIA held terrorists in secret prisons in their countries during the Bush Administration, d....k Marty, representative of the Council of Europe, concluded in a report in June 2007, based on research and interviews with over 30 current and former members of the intelligence services in Europe and U.S., that “he had enough evidence to state that secret detention facilities run by the CIA did exist in Europe from 2003 to 2005, in particular in Poland and Romania”.
An investigation into the affair had been open since 2008, when in September a Polish intelligence official confirmed that the CIA had held terror suspects inside a military intelligence training centre in Stare Kiejkuty in northeastern Poland. And although both President Kwaśniewski and Prime Minister Miller knew of its existence, it was unlikely they were aware that prisoners were being tortured because only the CIA had access to the prison.
Currently it is only known when and how many times CIA planes landed in Poland. Recently the information from the Border Guard Office became even more significant, because it included confirmations that the first N63MU flew into Poland on 5 December 2002, and the last on 22 September 2003. They also provide details of the number of passengers on seven flights to Szymany Airport.
The first plane in December 2002 carried eight passengers, the second in February 2003 carried seven, of which four were flown to an unknown destination, and the last plane, in September 2003, was empty on arrival, but was then used to fly five passengers to Romania.
Adam Bodnar stated that they suspect that this occurred because the CIA prison in Poland was liquidated and later recreated in Romania, and then in Lithuania, but there is no strong evidence of what happened to the passengers of these flights in Poland. The one thing we know from the Szymany Airport staff is that these planes were handled with the use of special procedures. At the moment, there is no evidence to prove whether or not Polish officers assisted the Americans, but the arrival of the CIA planes can no longer be denied by politicians.
What is new for this case is that, in a report published 17 August 2010, the AP informed that in 2007 one of the agency staffers discovered a box under a desk in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Centre with tapes of Ramzi Binalshibh, who has been described as one of the “key plot facilitators” in the September 11th attacks.
Two videotapes and one audiotape depicting Binalshibh’s interrogation sessions at a Moroccan facility the CIA used in 2002, are believed to be the only existing recordings made within the clandestine prison system. “If those tapes exist, they would be extremely relevant,” said Thomas A. Durkin, Binalshibh’s civilian lawyer.
Another 92 videos of two other al-Qaeda operatives, Abu Zubaydah and Abu al-Nashiri, were allegedly destroyed by the CIA, with the hope of wiping away all of the agency’s interrogation footage.
Current as well as former U.S. officials deny that there were any harsh methods like waterboarding used in Morocco. “The tapes record a guy sitting in a room just answering questions,” said an anonymous U.S. official familiar with the program.
“Today’s report is a stark reminder of how much information the government is still withholding about the Bush Administration’s interrogation policies,” said Alexander Abdo, staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project.
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 21, 2010 20:32:46 GMT 1
Well, well, the story is gaining momentum....
Al-Qaeda suspect takes legal action against Poland
21.09.2010 18:20
Suspected al-Qaeda terrorist Abd al-Radim al Nashiri is taking Poland to court for his alleged imprisonment in a CIA prison, where he says he was tortured.
His legal representative has applied to the Prosecutors Office in Warsaw for a formal investigation, demanding that persons responsible for the secret rendition and transport of prisoners, their imprisonment and torture on Polish territory are punished.
The terrorist suspect, currently imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay by the US has also applied for the questioning of Poland‘s top politicians at the time of his alleged imprisonment and torture, which will include the then president Aleksander Kwasniewski, head of the SLD government Leszek Miller and other officials.
Abd al-Radim al Nashiri was charged with supervising a terrorist attack on a US ship in 2000, in which 19 people were killed and 39 injured. Although the charges were eventually dropped, he is still being kept as an “enemy combatant” in Guantanamo.
His name appears in Council of Europe and United Nations reports, in which he claims he was kept in a facility in Poland.
Since 2008 Polish prosecutors have been investigating the claims that a CIA prison was being operated in Poland between 2002 and 2005 - which if correct overstepped human rights elgislation in Poland and internationally.
So far investigators have only confirmed a number of flights to Szymany airport in northern Poland. Last July, the Helsinki Human Rights Foundation claimed that 20 prisoners from Afghanistan, Dubai and Morocco had been flown in to Szymany. Earlier, a UN report alleged that 8 prisoners had been incarcerated in Poland.
Al Nashiri is the first prisoner to initiate a case against Poland.
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 22, 2010 22:29:03 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 7, 2010 19:08:18 GMT 1
September 11 mastermind’ tortured in Poland?
07.10.2010 15:39
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the US, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was brought by the CIA to Poland and was tortured, claims a report by the BBC.
Author of a report on CIA prisons for the Council of Europe, Swiss senator d....k Marty, told the BBC that: “Yes, Khalid Mohammed was in Poland and yes, he was tortured”.
Marty told the British broadcaster that there was now a “criminal standard of proof" that al-Qaeda suspects were rendition, imprisoned in Poland and were subject to ‘enhanced methods of interrogation’, or in layman’s language - tortured.
The latest allegations come a month after the Associated Press reported that a CIA officer and former FBI agent of Egyptian descent going under the code name “Albert” used an electric drill and a semi-automatic handgun to torture another al-Qaeda suspect in Poland Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
The BBC report says that “Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of al-Qaeda's most senior figures, was seized in Pakistan in March 2003. Within days he had been flown out of the country. According to a heavily-redacted report by the CIA Inspector General, the agency's internal watchdog, Mr Mohammed then received "183 applications of the waterboard."
The inference is that Mohammed was subjected to water boarding - or simulated drowning - in Poland.
Mohammed was later taken to Guantanamo Bay. In February 2008, a U.S. military commission accused him of war crimes and murder.
Polish politicians in power at the time of the alleged imprisonments - 2002 to 2005 - including the then president Aleksander Kwasniewski and the then prime minister Leszek Miller deny all knowledge of the a detention centre near Szymany airport in northern Poland.
An investigation into the alleged CIA prisons is currently before Poland’s State Tribunal.
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 10, 2010 21:22:49 GMT 1
l-Nashiri hands over names of ‘Poland’s CIA prison’ operatives
10.11.2010 14:40
Abd al - Rahim al- Nashiri
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who claims that he was detained and tortured in a CIA prison in Poland has handed over to the Polish prosecutor a list of names involved in his rendition and imprisonment.
"In the document handed over to prosecutors, we have mentioned the names of pilots, flight crew, warders and the head of the CIA site in Poland," says the Saudi’s lawyer Mikolaj Pietrzak. The lawyer says that his client, currently in Guantanamo on suspicion of being behind the bombing of USS Cole in 2000 - is demanding the people on the list be prosecuted.
In late October, chief prosecutor in the case, Jerzy Mierzewski, said al-Nashiri has received the status of victim, a move that allows his lawyer to call witnesses and will have access to investigation documents.
Polish politicians such as former president Alekdander Kwasniewski still maintain they knew nothing of a detention centre near Szymany airport in north eastern Poland, whuch is alleged to have operated between 2002-2005. (pg)
Source: AP Warsaw
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 16, 2010 20:36:48 GMT 1
Guantanamo detainee lawyers ask Poles for probe
By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland --
Lawyers for a terrorism suspect held at Guantanamo asked Polish authorities Thursday to open an investigation into allegations that American agents abused him at a now-shuttered secret CIA prison in Poland.
Abu Zubaydah's lawyers said they want to shed light on secret renditions and abuse by the CIA, a defunct system which remains clouded in secrecy. Options for bringing such cases to U.S. courts have been closed off in recent years, and Zubaydah's lawyers see Poland as perhaps the only country worldwide that might be willing to investigate the matter.
"Since 9/11, the United States has become a dark and angry place and if the rule of law is going to be vindicated, it has to start here," Joseph Margulies, an American lawyer for Zubaydah, said in Warsaw.
He said that secret sites operated across the world, but only Poland has a full-fledged investigation under way that appears intent on seeking the truth.
"If the opportunity is going to be seized anywhere in the world, it's going to be seized here," Margulies said.
Zubaydah's legal team filed two separate motions with prosecutors in Warsaw.
One asks for Polish authorities to broaden an investigation into whether Polish authorities abused their power by allowing the secret CIA prison to operate in their country, by considering Zubaydah a victim in the probe, Polish lawyer Bartlomiej Jankowski said.
Another terror suspect, Abd al-Nashiri, received such victim status recently in the Polish investigation, a move that allows his lawyers to participate in the larger investigation by reviewing evidence and calling witnesses. It was not clear when prosecutors would decide on the motions in Zubaydah's case.
The CIA operated the prison from December 2002 until the fall of 2003, where prisoners were subjected to harsh questioning and waterboarding, former CIA officials have told The Associated Press.
Human rights groups say they believe that probably eight terror suspects were held there based upon flight logs from CIA planes in and out of airport near the site in Stare Kiejkuty. Admitted Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is also believed to have once been there, but not all the other names are known.
A second request asks for a separate investigation into allegations Zubaydah suffered torture and other human rights violations in Poland, Jankowski said.
The current investigation into possible abuse of power is classified as secret by the Polish state and none of the conclusions so far have been revealed. Jankowski said that the legal team hopes a separate investigation would allow the public to receive more information about what is discovered.
"If the Bush administration basically introduced a decade of torture, then the Obama administration is threatening to introduce a decade of impunity - and that's what this action is about countering," said Steve Kostas, a lawyer for Interights, a human rights group supporting the case for Zubaydah.
Zubaydah's lawyers say they believe he was brought to a secret site in Poland in December 2002 and kept there up to 10 months. The AP has reported that Zubaydah was first taken to Thailand, where he was waterboarded. After the time in Poland, he was flown to Guantanamo in September 2003. He was then transported in March 2004 to Morocco and then sent to another black site before President Bush announced in September 2006 he was being held at Guantanamo.
Margulies said that, during his detention, he was subjected to all the harsh interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration for terror suspects in the secret rendition system.
"Abu Zubaydah is the first - in fact, he has been described as the guinea pig - for the enhanced interrogation program," Margulies said. "All of the techniques were applied to him. In fact, no one else endured all the techniques."
Lawyers says that Zubaydah is a stateless Palestinian born in Saudi Arabia. The Bush administration first believed he was a lieutenant to Osama bin Laden and the No. 3 leader in al-Qaida, Margulies said.
However, the U.S. government has since stopped describing him in those terms and has said that he acted more as a "travel agent" or "a low-level records clerk" for the terrorist group. No charges have been brought against Zubaydah to date.
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 31, 2010 13:07:35 GMT 1
WARSAW, Poland — A human rights group said Tuesday the U.S. government has refused assistance to Polish prosecutors investigating whether the CIA maintained a secret prison in Poland.
The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights posted a letter from prosecutors on its website saying the U.S. Justice Department in October refused to provide legal assistance requested by Polish investigators by citing a bilateral agreement on the protection of state interests.
Prosecutor Robert Majewski, who confirmed the U.S. denied the request, said it was hard to immediately assess whether the refusal could prove to be a hindrance in the probe.
The prosecutors are investigating allegations that Poland hosted a secret CIA prison, but no findings have been released.
U.S. and Polish attorneys have filed complaints with prosecutors over alleged brutal treatment of two terrorism suspects at the facility.
When the CIA decided to waterboard suspected terror detainees in overseas prisons, the agency turned to a pair of contractors. The men designed the CIA's interrogation program and also personally took part in the waterboarding sessions.
Full article: www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2010/12/us_refuses_to_help_poland_inve.html
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 19, 2011 12:06:01 GMT 1
The CIA detained terrorist suspects in Poland without the knowledge of the then president Aleksander Kwasniewski, high ranking political sources tell a leading Polish newspaper today.
“Aleksander Kwasniewski did not know what was going on there,” an informant has told Gazeta Wyborcza.
Prosecutors in Warsaw are currently considering whether to bring charges against Kwasniewski and other left wing politicians for allegedly allowing al-Qaeda suspects to be held and tortured in Poland. Kwasniewski has always said he had no knowledge of the CIA activity.
The latest revelations in Polish media seem to support his claim.
Based on the testimony of three unnamed “high ranking” members of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) - the party in government during the period that the CIA prison in northern Poland was operative - President Aleksander Kwasniewski only found out about the 'black site' at the Stare Kiejkuty intelligence base, near the Szczytno-Szymany airport, over 100 kilometres from Warsaw, when President George W. Bush thanked him for Poland‘s assistance in the ‘war against terror’, the daily reports.
While on a visit to Poland in June 2003, Bush thanked Kwasniewski for the help Warsaw had given Washington in its fight against terrorism.
But so profuse was Bush’s thanks that Kwasniewski realised that “something was not right,” as Poland had only sent a limited number of troops to Afghanistan and Iraq, to his knowledge.
When Kwasniewski subsequently found out that CIA-leased planes had been flying terrorist suspects in and out of Poland, the then president ordered the detention centre to be closed down, the anonymous sources tell Gazeta Wyborcza.
“Consequently, the last plane with CIA prisoners on board left Poland on 23 September 2003 from Szymany,” says one source.
Kwasniewski would not comment on the report.
“I have nothing further to add to what I have already said about the issue,” he said, Saturday.
Flight logs
Documents released by Poland’s Border Guards in 2010 confirm that a Boeing 737 (flight number N313P) departed from Kabul, Afghanistan on 22 September 2003 and landed at Szymany airport with seven crew on board but no passengers. It later took off heading for Romania with seven crew and five passengers on board (see documents here and here).
Prosecutors in Warsaw are currently gathering evidence alleging that leading al-Qaeda members such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah were held and tortured in Poland.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed claims he was water-boarded over 100 times while being held at the base at Stare Kiejkuty.
Aleksander Kwasniewski, however, ever since the allegations were first made by Human Rights Watch and the Washington Post in 2005, has said that “Polish and US secret services cooperated but there was no prison”.
The SLD sources today say that contrary to claims from another SLD party member, MEP Józef Pinior, the then prime minister of Poland, Leszek Miller, also had no clue of what was going on at the CIA detention centre, suggesting that the CIA was acting autonomously and without permission from the government.
“We knew that the Americans had a secret base [in Poland] and CIA planes were landing at Szymany, but did not know that there were prisoners on board,” an SLD source claims.
Intelligence chief at the time, Zbigniew Siemi±tkowski - also a member of the SLD and close associate of Aleksander Kwasniewski - confirmed in 2005 that the CIA had been operating a base at Stare Kiejkuty.
The informants tell the newspaper that an increase in cooperation between the CIA and Polish intelligence services took place after around 30 people from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Nepal had tried to gain entry to Poland in the summer of 2002, all with links to radical Islam.
The worry was that Poland would the site of terrorist attacks. After the summer, the “situation seemed to have calmed down and the threat level was lowed,” said an SLD source.
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 27, 2012 13:53:01 GMT 1
It has been revealed today that official charges were made:
Former Polish intelligence chief charged in CIA 'black sites' case
27.03.2012 09:45
A former head of Poland's intelligence services (AW) has been charged with “depriving prisoners of their liberty” in connection with Poland's investigation into CIA 'black sites'.
szymany airport: photo - mazuryairport.com
Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, who was the chief of Poland's intelligence services from 2002-2004, confirmed the information in a joint interview with the Gazeta Wyborcza daily and the TVP public television station.
“While in the prosecutor's office I refused to answer questions and I shall continue to do so at every stage of the proceedings, including in court,” he said.
According to Siemiatkowski, prosecutors acted on 10 January this year, but no information was released to the public.
Similar charges will be made against his deputy, Col. Andrzej Derlatka, who was directly responsible for dealing with the American intelligence service.
The charges relate to an investigation begun in 2008, regarding whether Poland hosted CIA detention centres for alleged terrorists during the early years of the so-called “War on Terrorism.”
Siemiatkowski, as head of the AW, has been accused exceeding his powers and breaching international law, with “unlawful deprivation of liberty,” and “corporal punishment” against prisoners-of-war.
A military base in Stare Kiejkuty, north eastern Poland, was allegedly used as one of the so-called CIA “black sites” between December 2002 and September 2003.
At the time of the alleged existence of the black sites, the Democratic Left Alliance party (SLD) was in power in Poland, under Prime Minister Leszek Miller.
The completion of Poland's official investigation into the affair was delayed for a second time on 1 February, with Warsaw Prosecutor Waledmar Tyl suggesting that the results may not see the light of day until August this year.
However, although the charges against Siemiatkowski were intended to remain confidential at present, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily claims that prosecutors acted after receiving full documentation from Poland's Intelligence Agency about cooperation with the CIA in the first years of the War in Terrorism.
The news that charges have been made against a high ranking Polish official is a major development in the investigation, which calls into question whether Poland was complacent with the CIA holding and torturing prisoners.
Sources have told reporters that access to a villa which was acting as the CIA 'black site' was closed to Polish officials.
“We had no access to the villa,” one source has said.
The revelations that Siemiatkowski has been charged by prosecutors come after an external hearing began at the European Parliament in Brussels yesterday, held by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), about the alleged existence of black sites in Poland, Lithuania and Romania.
Poland declined to send any state representative to Brussels.
However, current president of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski said previously that he wants “to finally get to the bottom of the question of the existence of CIA prisons in Poland.”
Tuesday's revelations also indicate that former prime minister Leszek Miller may be brought in front of the State Tribunal, Poland's supreme judicial body.
Victim status
In January, Polish prosecutors gave terror suspect Abu Zubaydah “victim status” in the investigation after claims that he was a victim of extraordinary rendition and secret detention in Poland.
Zubaydah was one of 14 “high-value detainees” transferred to Guantánamo from secret CIA prisons in September 2006.
He claims he was held, and tortured for four and a half years in prisons in Thailand, Poland, Romania, Lithuania and Morocco.
Polish prosecutors have also given Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri victim status in the case.
As to how much the president of Poland at time, Aleksander Kwasniewski, new of the arrangements between Polish intelligence services and the CIA has always been a focus of the investigation.
Last year, it was reported that, based on “high ranking” sources within SLD, President Kwasniewski only found out about the 'black site' at the Stare Kiejkuty intelligence base, near the Szczytno-Szymany airport, over 100 kilometres from Warsaw, when President George W. Bush thanked him for Poland‘s assistance in the ‘war against terror’.
While on a visit to Poland in June 2003, Bush thanked Kwasniewski for the help Warsaw had given Washington in its fight against terrorism.
But so profuse was Bush’s thanks that Kwasniewski realised that “something was not right,” as Poland had only sent a limited number of troops to Afghanistan and Iraq, to his knowledge.
When Kwasniewski subsequently found out that CIA-leased planes had been flying terrorist suspects in and out of Poland, the then president ordered the detention centre to be closed down, the anonymous sources told Gazeta Wyborcza.
“Consequently, the last plane with CIA prisoners on board left Poland on 23 September 2003 from Szymany,” said one source.
Kwasniewski would not comment on the report.
“I have nothing further to add to what I have already said about the issue,” he said in June last year. |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 23, 2013 23:01:32 GMT 1
Abu Zubaydah files human rights court complaint against Poland
06.02.2013 13:14
Abu Zubaydah has become the latest terror suspect to launch a complaint at the European Court of Human Rights after claiming he was imprisoned at a CIA prison in Poland.
Abu Zubaydah: photo - wikicommons
Lawyers for the Palestinian, born in Saudi Arabia, who is currently being held in Guantanamo Bay, say they have launched a complaint against Poland due to repeated refusals by Polish prosecutors to give access to investigation files.
Lawyer Bartlomiej Jankowski says the lack of transparency in the investigation against his client is “incompatible with human rights standards,” the TVP television station reports.
The complaint comes a day after it was reported that the European Human Rights Court in the Hague is to declassify files handed to them by Polish prosecutors.
Reports claim the court is frustrated that only around 16 files had been handed over by Poland relating to the alleged imprisonment of al-Qaeda suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, which do not contain any detailed material.
Zubaydah, who has been in custody for the last ten years after being arrested in Pakistan, claims he was water-boarded 83 times and subjected to numerous other enhanced interrogation techniques in various 'black sites'.
Former Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) prime minister of Poland, Leszek Miller and current justice minister Jaroslaw Gowin both denied that there was a CIA prison in Poland on Tuesday.
“I do not have any basis to say that there were any CIA prisons in Poland,” Justice Minister Jaroslaw Gowin said, adding that declassifying confidential files on the ongoing Polish investigation, which began in 2008, may compromise Poland's security.
Senator Jozef Pinior, former member of the European Parliament committee that looked into the claims that Poland, Romania and Lithuania had hosted prisons where 'renditioned' CIA prisoners were held and tortured, told Polish Radio on Wednesday morning that “it is obvious to anyone who reads the newspapers” that there was a CIA prison in north east Poland.
“We have enough evidence to be able to say that the CIA operated a secret centre on the territory of the Polish state at the turn of 2002/2003, during the rule of the SLD,” Pinior said.
After Leszek Miller said yesterday that “some people take the side of killers and not victims [of terror]”, Senator Pinior claimed that the former PM was “not intellectually able to grasp the problem” of human rights abuses, including torture, being performed on Polish soil, adding that Poland had been “doing the US's dirty work”
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