No prize for guessing the remaining countries: war-on-terrorism-ally
Poland, while Romania probably has something smaller. Or even the exact
locations (one of a handful of large former Soviet military bases).
Poland is subject to the European Court so what has been at issue for some
time is getting enough on the record for someone to pull the Poles before
the court to answer questions. The WP article falls just short of that
(probably no coincidence). Soon to a new location (now if Milosevic were
released from jail, an anti-Muslim deal could be struck...).
Jim D. writes:
From today's SLATE news summary: >... the [Washington] Post goes across
the top with a big takeout on the CIA's secret prisons for al-Qaida
suspects. The fact that the CIA has such prisons has been widely
reported. But since they basically operate off the books—prisoners are
not registered, and "only a handful" of U.S. officials know the
locations—there's almost nothing in the public domain about them. Today's
WP piece, written by Dana Priest, gets a few details. The CIA operated
prisons in Afghanistan, Thailand, and Gitmo and now has a few in "several
democracies [sic] in Eastern Europe."... The Washington Post is not
publishing the names of the Eastern European countries involved in the
covert program, at the request of senior U.S. officials. They argued that
the disclosure might disrupt counterterrorism efforts in those countries
and elsewhere and could make them targets of possible terrorist
retaliation. >Elsewhere in the piece the Post mentions that legal experts
think the prisons, if they were known about, "would be considered illegal
under the laws of several host countries." Doesn't that, at the least,
complicate the Post's decision to withhold the names?<
