http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/25/133212/53Via Laura Rozen, I see that the German news weekly stern is about to break a major story tomorrow. It has obtained copies of German government documents that reveal that US forces at a base in Tuzla, Bosnia were detaining and torturing terror-suspects already in September 2001.
Further, German agents saw evidence of this abuse at that time and sent a highly critical report about it to German intelligence, the German Federal Criminal Bureau, and German military intelligence. The German government, by contrast, has always claimed that it knew nothing of the existence of CIA detention centers in Europe until the news media reported about them.
According to today's Independent:
Stern said the German intelligence agents had been given access to documents confiscated by the Americans which were "smeared with blood".
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The story continues:
One German agent was said to have compared the actions of the US interrogators to Serbian war criminals during the break up of Yugoslavia. "The Serbs ended up before the international court in The Hague for this kind of thing," he was quoted as saying.
Here is an English language report from Deutsche Welle on what is known so far about the forthcoming stern article:
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