Originally published January 6 2006
Media coverage prompts CIA to move terrorist prisoners from Europe to North Africa
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
ABC News reports that the CIA has moved 11 al-Qaida prisoners from secret prisons in Eastern Europe to detention centers in North Africa, after the media frenzy that accompanied early reports of the CIA prisons set up in Eastern European countries.
The United States held captured al-Qaida suspects at secret CIA prisons in Europe until last month when the facilities were shut down after media reports of their existence, ABC News reported on Monday, citing current and former CIA agents.
Eleven al-Qaida prisoners who were held in Eastern Europe have been transferred and were being relocated "to a CIA site somewhere in north Africa', ABC reported, citing CIA sources.
ABC said the CIA declined comment and an agency spokesman was not available when Reuters tried to contact him.
According to ABC News, eight top al-Qaida figures and three others were held at one time at a former Soviet air base in Eastern Europe and some were later moved to a second country.
ABC said Polish sources had identified a base as the cite of a secret prison location.
US-based Human Rights Watch has said Poland and Romania were the most likely locations for the detention centres, but both countries have denied it.
The US has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of the secret prisons, as reported by the Washington Post.
Before leaving Washington for Europe on Monday, secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, defended US treatment of terrorism suspects.
She did not directly address the allegation that the CIA has run secret prisons in Eastern Europe, however, she reaffirmed the US does not use torture.
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