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CIA ‘black sites’ won’t be dismantled
Raw Story
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Lawyers for the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be transferred to US soil for a civilian trial, set for September 2010, asked on Thursday to see the secret CIA prisons where he was allegedly tortured.
The Associated Press reports, “A prosecutor agreed Thursday that the government will not dismantle overseas locations where a former Guantanamo detainee claims he was interrogated by the CIA before he was brought to the United States for trial on terrorism charges.”
“The prosecutor, David Raskin, told U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan that the United States would preserve the locations for now even though it does not plan to use at trial any statements Ahmed Ghailani made while he was in the custody of any other government agencies,” the AP article continues.
Ghailani’s lawyers had argued that “his treatment at the locations will be relevant if the government seeks the death penalty in the case. Raskin said the government has not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty,” the AP reported.
Judge Kaplan quipped that due to the reversal on dismantling the black sites, he won’t “have to look at the classified information no matter how titillating it may be.”
At a hearing here federal judge Lewis Kaplan set the date of September 13, 2010 for the trial of Tanzanian national Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who was transferred to the United States on June 9.
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Ghailani had been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison since September 2006 and is pleading not guilty to charges of taking part in the August 7, 1998 bombing of the US embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.
According to his attorneys, Ghailani was handed over to US authorities in August 2004 by Pakistani police and was held prisoner in covert “black sites” operated by the Central Intelligence Agency until his transfer to the US naval base in southeast Cuba.
“The inspection of the CIA Black Sites where the defendant was detained, subjected to interrogation techniques, interrogated and made statements is necessary,” argued lawyer Peter Quijano.
Ghailani was subjected to “harsh conditions and harsh interrogation techniques” while detained at the secret prison facilities, he alleged.
The civilian trial means Ghailani is “being held accountable for his alleged role in the bombing of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and the murder of 224 people,” Attorney General Eric Holder said last month.
Moving the detainee to the United States was a landmark first step for President Barack Obama’s politically delicate plan to close the controversial prison and move all remaining prisoners to the US justice system or to their home countries.
Revelations about the “black sites,” located overseas sometimes in countries such as Iraq where there is a risk of torture, caused international outrage during former president George W. Bush’s tenure.
Rights groups and media reports have alleged the secret prisons were located in Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland, Romania and in former Yugoslavia, as well as in the Horn of Africa and on US Navy ships.
CIA director Leon Panetta said earlier this year said the agency is “no longer” operating secret prisons and plans to shut all remaining sites.
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July 2nd, 2009 at 4:53 pm
No pesky news will come from “secret” sites…
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:21 pm
HEY LETS HAVE THE CIA KIDNAP PEOPLE TAKE THEM ON PLANES FLY THEM TO
SECRET LOCATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD THEN TORTURE THEM SO THAT
WE CAN LEARN THE CIA IS THE ONE ACTUALLY FUNDING MANY OF THE TERRORIST GROUPS TO DESTABILIZE COUNTRIES .
WOW I FEEL LIKE I HACE BEEN PEED ON BY MY OWN DOG
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:18 pm
GOOD! Now when we take bad guys to a secret prison blindfolded, we can make them think they landed in another not so friendly country…..The 3 hot meals, 8 hours of sleep and prayer carpet might give it away though…
Sgt. Fury Reply:
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:50 am
Yes, we treat them so well right? Who cares if many, even most, are innocent? Not us. Fascists unite! Support your leaders like recon and I! Blind devotion! Hannity rules!
Sgt.Fury Reply:
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:04 am
Not me. Just some pretending to be. Wow ! he sure seems to have man love for Hannity, I am guessing!
Sgt. Fury Reply:
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:54 am
I sure do! Hannity would never lie!
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July 3rd, 2009 at 5:21 am
What a growth industry with these prison/terrorist rights groups have become.
Any of you Info warriors ever take the time to wonder who is funding these organizations ?
Most Lawyers demand to be paid ,Right!
Or do you really think it all Pro Bono work.
Surely there plenty of people that need protection right here in cities and towns that could use some legal help.
Who pays the bills? Who following the money trail ? The basic tenements of journalism: Who, What & Why ?
Somebody ring the bell and you begin salivating!
Oh yeah I am glad we have someplace to keep these killers. I am sick of watching each one morph into a mass media creation of innocent man who only wants peace. Bullshit. Too many have died at the bloody hands of Islamic fanatics.
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:47 am
BLACK SKIES???? WE HAVE BEAUTIFUL BLUE SKIES EVERY MORNING UNTIL THE CHEMTRAIL C-130S START THEIR EAST WEST SORTIES AT ABOUT 8:07 AM CDT. SHELBY COUNTY TN NEVER HAD THESE UNTIL JUST A WEEK AGO. SPEAKING OF THE CIA, WOULD YOU PLEASE KNOCK OFF THE GOD DAMN CHEMTRAILS DURING MY HOLIDAY.