Swiss claim proof that CIA ran Europe jails

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Jan Sliva in Brussels
Tuesday January 10, 2006
The Guardian


European investigators looking into allegations of secret CIA-run prisons in Europe said yesterday that an Egyptian government message naming countries where such prisons existed could amount to indirect proof of the claims.

But the investigators from the Council of Europe, the continent's top human rights body, said they were trying to confirm that the Egyptian document was genuine. The document's existence was reported on Sunday by the Swiss weekly SonnstagsBlick.

The newspaper reported that the document said Egypt had confirmed through its own sources that the US intelligence agency had held 23 terror suspects at a military base in Romania.

The message also said there were similar US detention centres in Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria, according to the newspaper.
The message, a fax sent by satellite transmission from Egypt's foreign ministry to its embassy in London, was intercepted on November 15 by Swiss intelligence, the newspaper reported. The Swiss defence ministry said it was investigating the leak of the document.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1682961,00.html

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1. What kind of message?

European investigators looking into allegations of secret CIA-run prisons in Europe said yesterday that an Egyptian government message naming countries where such prisons existed could amount to indirect proof of the claims.

What kind of Egyptian government "message" are we talking about? What are the differences between the government of Egypt and the government of Syria? If Maher Arar, while being tortured, told his interrogators that there are secret CIA-run prisons in Canada, then would that amount to indirect proof that there really are secret CIA-run prisons in Canada?

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2. Duplicate

From Jan 8th

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2028989