U.S. Has Secret Prisons Abroad
It has been revealed that the United States is operating secret prison compounds in several places around the world in order to hold and conduct interrogations of special captives in America's war against terrorism. Do you think these secret prisons are likely helping our war effort?
According to the Washington Post's Dana Priest, several secret prison sites are being operated in, among other places, several newly-independent countries which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc.
In addition to sites in former Communist bloc countries, Ms. Priest reports that Thailand was the location of at least one such prison site. Although the Thai government denies the report, correspondents said Thailand was the location of one such special prison, though it has apparently now been closed.
Afghanistan is said to be the location of another such special U.S. prison; though the continuing U.S. military presence in Afghanistan might be said to mitigate such a U.S. operation there, as it has been said to do at the U.S. facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
"The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important [al-Qa'ida] captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe," the Post reported on Wednesday, citing "U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement."
Their report describes the "hidden global internment network" as "a central element in the CIA's unconventional war on terrorism."
Called "black sites," according to the Post's report, even their existence is classified, and known only to a few select people -- "usually, only to the president and a few top intelligence officers in each host country."
It has been revealed that the United States is operating secret prison compounds in several places around the world in order to hold and conduct interrogations of special captives in America's war against terrorism. Do you think these secret prisons are likely helping our war effort?
According to the Washington Post's Dana Priest, several secret prison sites are being operated in, among other places, several newly-independent countries which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc.
In addition to sites in former Communist bloc countries, Ms. Priest reports that Thailand was the location of at least one such prison site. Although the Thai government denies the report, correspondents said Thailand was the location of one such special prison, though it has apparently now been closed.
Afghanistan is said to be the location of another such special U.S. prison; though the continuing U.S. military presence in Afghanistan might be said to mitigate such a U.S. operation there, as it has been said to do at the U.S. facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
"The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important [al-Qa'ida] captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe," the Post reported on Wednesday, citing "U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement."
Their report describes the "hidden global internment network" as "a central element in the CIA's unconventional war on terrorism."
Called "black sites," according to the Post's report, even their existence is classified, and known only to a few select people -- "usually, only to the president and a few top intelligence officers in each host country."
