Leaked fax shows Romania helped CIA interrogators

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An Egyptian government fax intercepted by Swiss intelligence offers the first "real evidence" that the US interrogated suspected terrorists at secret prisons in Eastern Europe, European politicians said yesterday.

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

In it, Mr Gheit discussed the fate of 23 detainees from Iraq and Afghanistan who were apparently interrogated at the Mihail Kogalniceanu air base in Romania on the Black Sea coast.

Egyptian diplomats had confirmed this information "from their own sources", the minister wrote, according to a Swiss intelligence summary leaked to the Sonntagsblick newspaper.

Egypt has not confirmed the authenticity of the fax. But MEPs described it as "a hugely significant step" when angry Swiss authorities confirmed the leak was based on a communication intercepted by a top secret surveillance system, known as Onyx.

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/10/wcia10.xml

[mom cat]

1. This is big!

[stop the bleeding]

2. This is a very interesting article,

I wonder if there are other organizations that are aware of this? Seems like something like this would be making bigger news.

[jsamuel]

3. having trouble grasping this one...