Originally published December 18 2005
Lawmaker to attempt to identify CIA prisons through satellite imagery
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Swiss lawmaker Dick Marty believes he can use the European Union's Satellite Center to identify alleged CIA secret prisons in Romania and Poland, and he hopes to present images to the Council of Europe sometime in January.
The Council of Europe has opened an investigation into the allegations, which Washington has refused to confirm or deny.
EU states agreed on Monday to write a joint letter to the United States seeking clarification about the allegations.
Dick Marty, who hopes to present his report to the council's parliamentary assembly in January, said he had contacted the EU Satellite Center, based in Torrejon de Ardoz in Spain.
U.S.-based organization Human Rights Watch has identified Romania and EU member Poland as countries that may have been used by the CIA in the alleged secret operation.
The Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, Alvaro Gil Robles, separately raised questions about a detention center used by the U.S. Army in Kosovo, although he said he could establish no clear link to the CIA prison reports.
He told the French newspaper Le Monde he had been shocked by the detention center in Camp Bondsteel during a visit in 2002.
Drawing a comparison with the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Le Monde said prisoners had had no access to lawyers.
"I cannot establish a link between (the reports on the CIA prisons) and Camp Bondsteel, because I have no concrete elements on this matter," Gil Robles said, but he added that he thought explanations were needed over the base in Kosovo.
Marty said he intended to ask Eurocontrol, the European civil and military organization responsible for the safety of air navigation, to follow up Human Rights Watch's allegations that prisoners illegally detained by American secret service might have passed through some European airports in transit.
His note said 31 airplanes were in question.
Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz said on Thursday allegations that Polish airports had been used by CIA flights would be investigated.
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