Council of Europe report: EU 'leaders' all lied about torture flights
TONY BLAIR SAID: "I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE REFERRING TO."
by Henk Ruyssenaars
Jan. 24th - 2006 - In an article in the british paper 'The Telegraph' published last December* about how the lying leaders of the European Union (25 countries) concealed the secret torture and possibly other illegal deals they made with the US, to allow torture flights, it became clear that the EU leaders' all are pathological liars, licking the neocon's boots.
The Telegraph: "The European Union secretly allowed the United States to use transit facilities on European soil to transport "criminals" in 2003, according to a previously unpublished document. The revelation contradicts repeated EU denials that it knew of "rendition" flights by the CIA. The EU agreed to give America access to facilities - presumably airports - in confidential talks in Athens during which the war on terror was discussed, the original minutes show.
BUT ALL REFERENCES TO THE AGREEMENT WERE DELETED FROM THE RECORD BEFORE IT WAS PUBLISHED.
The issue of "rendition" flights - in which terror suspects are flown to secret bases and third countries for interrogation - overshadowed last week's fence-mending visit to Europe by Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State. Asked in Parliament last week about reports of 400 suspect flights passing through British airports, Tony Blair said: "In respect of airports, I don't know what you are referring to." - [endquote]
In a report published today by the 46-nation Council of Europe, which says it 'advocates human rights and respect for the law' the bold lies of the 'Leaders' stick out again, how much ever the EU Council is lying too.
The report is titled "European Probe of CIA Finds Torture, Abductions" and the txt below is by the neocon's Bloomberg industrial info service. It further anyhow confirms what most thinking people know: the EU 'capos' lie through their taxpaid teeth: "A European investigation cited evidence the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency handed over abducted terror suspects to other countries for torture and degrading treatment, and said there are ``many indications'' of secret detention centers in Europe.
The 46-nation Council of Europe, which advocates human rights and respect for the law, opened its inquiry into the CIA's handling of suspected terrorists in November. The move followed media reports the U.S. secretly held suspects in eastern Europe and used European countries as transit points for the detainees.
``There is a great deal of coherent, convergent evidence pointing to the existence of a system of `relocation' and `outsourcing' of torture,'' investigator Dick Marty said.
``It has been proved'' that ``individuals have been abducted, deprived of their liberty and all rights, and transported to different destinations in Europe, to be handed over to countries in which they have suffered degrading treatment and torture,'' Marty wrote in the report.
Council members began debating the interim assessment this morning in a televised session, and Marty's probe is continuing. The investigation by the Strasbourg, France-based council is one of several into the CIA's behavior in handling terror suspects.
CIA Flights
Marty, a Swiss parliamentarian and former prosecutor, wrote of ``hundreds'' of CIA-chartered flights for suspected terrorists that passed through numerous European countries, probably with the knowledge of national governments or their intelligence services.
The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush ``seems to start from the principle that the principles of the rule of law and human rights are incompatible with efficient action against terrorism,'' Marty said.
``At this stage of the investigations, there is no formal, irrefutable evidence of the existence of secret CIA detention centers in Romania, Poland or any other country,'' he said in his report. ``Nevertheless, there are many indications from various sources which must be considered reliable, justifying the continuation of the analytical and investigative work.''
The Council of Europe is the continent's oldest political organization, founded in 1949. Its aims include defending human rights, parliamentary democracy and the rule of law. It also seeks to develop continent-wide agreements to standardize members' social and legal practices, according to its Web site.
[andend] - Bloomberg - To contact the reporter for this story: Kevin Costelloe in Brussels at kcostelloe@bloomberg.net - January 24, 2006 - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8qxx9
EU knew: Article in The Telegraph - published last December - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8p2ua
COLIN POWELL TELLS FROST: MOST EUROPEAN 'LEADERS' ARE LIARS TOO: "WELL, MOST OF OUR EUROPEAN FRIENDS CANNOT BE SHOCKED THAT THIS KIND OF THING TAKES PLACE... the thing that is called rendition is not something that is new or unknown to my European friends." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/a7her
'Global Terror by Secret US Death Squads' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6d9sa
Secret jails: American Gulag on military base in Souda on the Greek island of Crete - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8kwgv
Picture of the Souda base - Url.: http://www.souda.navy.mil/kriti.jpg
The MI6 station chief in Athens appears to be Nicholas Langman (see Greek spelling of the name in red box in Greek paper (Url), Counsellor at the British Embassy in Athens. Langman has been identified as an MI6 official by Steven Dorril in MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service: http://cryptome.org/mi6-sd36.htm.
* UK & D-Notice - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/pv2r
* Amnesty International - The American Gulag - Url.: http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGPOL100142005
* “We do not torture,” George W. Bush declared during a brief press conference - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9l5ma
* Google search - Results 1 - 10 of about 36,900,000 for Bush +torture. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7a42c
* The Observer - UK - British admit being at terror grilling - Url.: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1676098,00.html
* Italian Court orders 22 CIA terrorists arrested - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dt4g5
* "People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq
* Who's financing the globe's ordeal? - The 'Federal Reserve' is the absolute biggest crime against humanity ever - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
* The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal
* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm ] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
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by Henk Ruyssenaars
Jan. 24th - 2006 - In an article in the british paper 'The Telegraph' published last December* about how the lying leaders of the European Union (25 countries) concealed the secret torture and possibly other illegal deals they made with the US, to allow torture flights, it became clear that the EU leaders' all are pathological liars, licking the neocon's boots.
The Telegraph: "The European Union secretly allowed the United States to use transit facilities on European soil to transport "criminals" in 2003, according to a previously unpublished document. The revelation contradicts repeated EU denials that it knew of "rendition" flights by the CIA. The EU agreed to give America access to facilities - presumably airports - in confidential talks in Athens during which the war on terror was discussed, the original minutes show.
BUT ALL REFERENCES TO THE AGREEMENT WERE DELETED FROM THE RECORD BEFORE IT WAS PUBLISHED.
The issue of "rendition" flights - in which terror suspects are flown to secret bases and third countries for interrogation - overshadowed last week's fence-mending visit to Europe by Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State. Asked in Parliament last week about reports of 400 suspect flights passing through British airports, Tony Blair said: "In respect of airports, I don't know what you are referring to." - [endquote]
In a report published today by the 46-nation Council of Europe, which says it 'advocates human rights and respect for the law' the bold lies of the 'Leaders' stick out again, how much ever the EU Council is lying too.
The report is titled "European Probe of CIA Finds Torture, Abductions" and the txt below is by the neocon's Bloomberg industrial info service. It further anyhow confirms what most thinking people know: the EU 'capos' lie through their taxpaid teeth: "A European investigation cited evidence the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency handed over abducted terror suspects to other countries for torture and degrading treatment, and said there are ``many indications'' of secret detention centers in Europe.
The 46-nation Council of Europe, which advocates human rights and respect for the law, opened its inquiry into the CIA's handling of suspected terrorists in November. The move followed media reports the U.S. secretly held suspects in eastern Europe and used European countries as transit points for the detainees.
``There is a great deal of coherent, convergent evidence pointing to the existence of a system of `relocation' and `outsourcing' of torture,'' investigator Dick Marty said.
``It has been proved'' that ``individuals have been abducted, deprived of their liberty and all rights, and transported to different destinations in Europe, to be handed over to countries in which they have suffered degrading treatment and torture,'' Marty wrote in the report.
Council members began debating the interim assessment this morning in a televised session, and Marty's probe is continuing. The investigation by the Strasbourg, France-based council is one of several into the CIA's behavior in handling terror suspects.
CIA Flights
Marty, a Swiss parliamentarian and former prosecutor, wrote of ``hundreds'' of CIA-chartered flights for suspected terrorists that passed through numerous European countries, probably with the knowledge of national governments or their intelligence services.
The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush ``seems to start from the principle that the principles of the rule of law and human rights are incompatible with efficient action against terrorism,'' Marty said.
``At this stage of the investigations, there is no formal, irrefutable evidence of the existence of secret CIA detention centers in Romania, Poland or any other country,'' he said in his report. ``Nevertheless, there are many indications from various sources which must be considered reliable, justifying the continuation of the analytical and investigative work.''
The Council of Europe is the continent's oldest political organization, founded in 1949. Its aims include defending human rights, parliamentary democracy and the rule of law. It also seeks to develop continent-wide agreements to standardize members' social and legal practices, according to its Web site.
[andend] - Bloomberg - To contact the reporter for this story: Kevin Costelloe in Brussels at kcostelloe@bloomberg.net - January 24, 2006 - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8qxx9
EU knew: Article in The Telegraph - published last December - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8p2ua
COLIN POWELL TELLS FROST: MOST EUROPEAN 'LEADERS' ARE LIARS TOO: "WELL, MOST OF OUR EUROPEAN FRIENDS CANNOT BE SHOCKED THAT THIS KIND OF THING TAKES PLACE... the thing that is called rendition is not something that is new or unknown to my European friends." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/a7her
'Global Terror by Secret US Death Squads' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6d9sa
Secret jails: American Gulag on military base in Souda on the Greek island of Crete - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8kwgv
Picture of the Souda base - Url.: http://www.souda.navy.mil/kriti.jpg
The MI6 station chief in Athens appears to be Nicholas Langman (see Greek spelling of the name in red box in Greek paper (Url), Counsellor at the British Embassy in Athens. Langman has been identified as an MI6 official by Steven Dorril in MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service: http://cryptome.org/mi6-sd36.htm.
* UK & D-Notice - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/pv2r
* Amnesty International - The American Gulag - Url.: http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGPOL100142005
* “We do not torture,” George W. Bush declared during a brief press conference - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9l5ma
* Google search - Results 1 - 10 of about 36,900,000 for Bush +torture. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7a42c
* The Observer - UK - British admit being at terror grilling - Url.: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1676098,00.html
* Italian Court orders 22 CIA terrorists arrested - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dt4g5
* "People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq
* Who's financing the globe's ordeal? - The 'Federal Reserve' is the absolute biggest crime against humanity ever - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
* The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal
* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm ] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
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