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Crating prisoners for Eastern European "frequent flyer torture" -- The
latest outrage from an administration that brought us white phosphorous chemical
weapons, sodomizing teen prisoners, and naked human pyramids.
Although The Washington Post failed to report on the details of CIA (now Pentagon-run)
"black" interrogation sites in eastern Europe, WMR is able to report
on the particulars of the covert operation. According to a well-placed intelligence
source who served in eastern Europe, prisoners from Iraq and elsewhere have been
flown from airport to airport in eastern Europe on board C-130 planes. Placed
in what were described as "dog-sized" cages, the covert operation became
fully operational after the disclosures of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, Baghdad
and Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. The "crated" prisoners were either removed
from the C-130s for interrogation at Soviet-era detention centers that were in
various states of repair or were kept on board the aircraft and subjected to brutal
interrogation by U.S. and/or contractor personnel, who, in some cases, were ex-members
of the Soviet KGB, Stasi, and other eastern European security services. C-130s
are used because of their short take-off and landing capabilities on short air
strips located in remote regions.
The source, who spoke on a condition of anonymity, witnessed the ground work
being laid for the "black sites" in a number of countries and locations.
These include the Taszar airbase in south-central Hungary, near the town of
Pecs; Lv'iv, Ukraine; Szczynto-Szymany, Poland; Skopje, Macedonia; Mihail Kogalniceanu
airbase in Romania; Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia; Shkoder, Albania; Burgas,
Bulgaria; and the Markuleshti air base in Moldova.
Crating prisoners hearkens back to the Vietnam War when the U.S. used "tiger
cages" installed by the French on Con Son island off Vietnam to hold political
prisoners. The U.S. used the tiger cages to detain and torture suspected Viet
Cong sympathizers. Many of the prisoners were merely innocent Buddhists and
anti-war activists. The flying of caged prisoners from airport to airport on
chartered C-130s is yet another indication of what military judge advocate general
(JAG) lawyers have cited as the Bush administration's penchant for placing prisoners
in "law free zones."
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