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Polish Intelligence Confirms US Secret Prison Facilities on Polish Soil

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Polish intelligence sources have for the first time confirmed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran a secret prison facility on Polish soil.

The admission comes after a report found the CIA had operated prisons for terror suspects in Poland and Romania.

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{"commentId":2805535,"authorDomain":"killfile"}

Oh look, more secret prisons! How delightful!

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Reply#1 - Sun Sep 7, 2008 10:59 AM EDT
{"commentId":2806741,"authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}

Great find Killfile. Amazing how much real news our MSM political coverage misses!

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#1.1 - Sun Sep 7, 2008 1:10 PM EDT
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{"commentId":2807585,"authorDomain":"alkimija"}

And yet people wonder why Russia is increasingly concerned over the behaviour of the USA in the nations that make up Russia's neighbours.

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Reply#2 - Sun Sep 7, 2008 2:39 PM EDT
{"commentId":2810899,"authorDomain":"drfade3000"}

Why would any country need such huge net of secret prisons allover the world ''in Egypt , Moroco, Jordan,Oman, Ethiopia,,Kenya,Somalia, Thailand and Romania and others'' if those countries have guts like Poland to admit the existance of secret US prisons on their lands

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Reply#3 - Sun Sep 7, 2008 8:30 PM EDT
{"commentId":2813278,"authorDomain":"sedekka"}

Yeah. Like we didn't know this already. Why do they even bother coming out of the closet is beyond me. We know (I have as have many others) about these secret prisons. Great find Kill. Now my friend. What are your chances of finding and article that says they are going to close down the damn rotten places?

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    Reply#4 - Mon Sep 8, 2008 12:43 AM EDT
    {"commentId":2814759,"authorDomain":"killfile"}

    Oh. Round about zero, at least until January.

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      #4.1 - Mon Sep 8, 2008 7:33 AM EDT
      {"commentId":2821963,"authorDomain":"drfade3000"}

      Absolutely zero chances before and after January ,, those prisons are there to stay ''you will realize that if you saw one of them''
      I could identify the location of of one of them in my trip to Moroco and another one in Egypt-Cairo-La zoughli square ''the rotten bunker is inside the'' national security section of Ministry of interior'' ..lol
      The heavily guarded facility looks like built to stay for uncertain time

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        #4.2 - Mon Sep 8, 2008 3:40 PM EDT
        {"commentId":2830844,"authorDomain":"sedekka"}

        Kill and Fada. Gee thanks. Now I am pissed off!!! See yous at the party. Don't forget.

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          #4.3 - Mon Sep 8, 2008 10:30 PM EDT
          {"commentId":2836811,"authorDomain":"drfade3000"}

          Sorry Sedekka , I didn,t get it , which party? did I miss a party ?

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            #4.4 - Tue Sep 9, 2008 10:46 AM EDT
            {"commentId":2851276,"authorDomain":"sedekka"}

            Fada. Not yet. Thank goodness we still have a world. Check nearing's site. You'll find what you're looking for.

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              #4.5 - Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:48 AM EDT
              {"commentId":2861694,"authorDomain":"drfade3000"}

              I checked it Sedekka and yet I couldn,t find party , am I losing my witting ?.lol

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                #4.6 - Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:22 PM EDT
                {"commentId":2873386,"authorDomain":"sedekka"}

                Fada. hehehehe! Maybe. I'll send you an e-mail shortly.

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                  #4.7 - Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:57 AM EDT
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                  {"commentId":2817698,"authorDomain":"xanthiana"}

                  Errrr you guys didn't know about this? I guess we had the advantage of our citizens being rooted through Poland to enter one of the American interrogation rooms ...

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                    Reply#5 - Mon Sep 8, 2008 11:54 AM EDT
                    {"commentId":2832671,"authorDomain":"darthmaulrob"}

                    Well we cant bring all the prisoners over here to the good ole USA, to eat 3 meals a day in the AC, and watch cable while they work out with the weights... We do still need these facilities... Look at the world around you.. We don't find out where the bad guys are by asking nicely! Come on people.....We still have to be able to do somethings that are outside our laws to get results sorry to say....Dont really see that a bunch of people that detonate themselves in the middle of markets need a legal sanction when we are trying to find their buddies to prevent more innocent men, women, and children being blow up while shopping to feed themselves.. I am quite sure if it is in their country .. they already knew about it.. it is not that secret and not that big a deal!

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                    #5.1 - Tue Sep 9, 2008 1:15 AM EDT
                    {"commentId":2833369,"authorDomain":"xanthiana"}

                    ....Dont really see that a bunch of people that detonate themselves in the middle of markets need a legal sanction when we are trying to find their buddies to prevent more innocent men, women, and children being blow up while shopping to feed themselves.. I am quite sure if it is in their country .. they already knew about it.. it is not that secret and not that big a deal!

                    Considering the outrage this caused in Germany, I would say German citizens have a huge problem with American authorities kidnapping their fellow citizens. Especially if they were only kidnapped due to being born with another a passport.

                    And to follow your logic, let's say Russia would open all these secret prisons around the globe and start to kidnap American citizens, because they pose a threat, you'd really agree with that?

                    I mean who are you Americans to go around the world and kidnap law abiding citizens?!?

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                      #5.2 - Tue Sep 9, 2008 2:52 AM EDT
                      {"commentId":2834877,"authorDomain":"sedekka"}

                      Xan. Brilliantly said. I'd also like an answer to your question. How would America feel if Russia did this?

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                        #5.3 - Tue Sep 9, 2008 8:38 AM EDT
                        {"commentId":2838649,"authorDomain":"darthmaulrob"}

                        Well nobody said anything about kidnapping citizens of Germany...I specifically said people who blow themselves up in markets killing your citizens!!! Please read!! If we 'arrest' those people they are then subject to all the loopholes of laws that will not allow us to obtain info from them as to their activities and co-horts. Sorry but when you are talking about killing families of people in Germany or anywhere else..Some extreme measures have to be taken to ensure the freedom you enjoy to sit there and make these comments... Good Luck! Hope you are never a victim of anything like this, because I sure dont want to hear how sad you are when someone you love dies like that!! Oh and FYI yes Russia has them too!!! And they are set up in other countries as well.. They obducted Americans during the Korean conflict and took them to the Soviet Union..Remember???? Please go read a book or something and get educated.

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                        #5.4 - Tue Sep 9, 2008 12:20 PM EDT
                        {"commentId":2838804,"authorDomain":"killfile"}

                        I specifically said people who blow themselves up in markets killing your citizens!!! Please read!! If we 'arrest' those people....

                        How do you arrest people who blow themselves up in markets? Haven't they already blown themselves up... presumably in markets? Short of scraping them off of the fruit-stand, how, exactly, are you planning to take them into custody?

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                        #5.5 - Tue Sep 9, 2008 12:28 PM EDT
                        {"commentId":2840575,"authorDomain":"xanthiana"}

                        As Killfile said and

                        They obducted Americans during the Korean conflict and took them to the Soviet Union..Remember????

                        No, I don't remember that conflict has been some time ago. So where are these ominous Russian prisons today?

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                          #5.6 - Tue Sep 9, 2008 2:01 PM EDT
                          {"commentId":2841973,"authorDomain":"darthmaulrob"}

                          Yes that does pose a problem when they are in pieces...lol. But some of them we catch before that happens, then we have to have a place to take them..

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                          #5.7 - Tue Sep 9, 2008 3:16 PM EDT
                          {"commentId":2842236,"authorDomain":"drfade3000"}

                          How do you arrest people who blow themselves up in markets?

                          In fact they are holding and torturing suspects for no charge and many of those suspects were released because they are innocent .

                          No big deal , they are not human being to be compensated by law because law can,t be applied in secret prisons...so they are collateral damage of no value ..
                          this is the sort of modern civilization that excuses kidnapping in secret prisons\

                          Not so much different from terrorism

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                          #5.8 - Tue Sep 9, 2008 3:30 PM EDT
                          {"commentId":2842307,"authorDomain":"killfile"}

                          But some of them we catch before that happens, then we have to have a place to take them..

                          Ah.. but those we don't know to be people who blow themselves up in markets. They might just be random decent folks. Even US police get the wrong guy sometimes and I think we can all agree that the situation on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc is a bit more... ah... harried.

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                          #5.9 - Tue Sep 9, 2008 3:33 PM EDT
                          {"commentId":2842611,"authorDomain":"drfade3000"}

                          I know a decent Christian friend from Iraq 'whose bad luck let him return to Iraq before the war'' .
                          He was captured because he was existing by chance in a market when a wired car was exploded . He was detained and tortured for 4 months. Now he is disabled physically and mentally.

                          This was an example for the botched arrest of innocents. They arrest whoever they can catch, as if the criminals will wait in the site of explosion to be caught by soldiers!!

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                          #5.10 - Tue Sep 9, 2008 3:50 PM EDT
                          {"commentId":2850576,"authorDomain":"darthmaulrob"}

                          Ok how many actual criminals have we caught.. more than innocent people.. Yes.. or are the prisons filled with all innocents?? What is the answer to not try to catch them? or to attempt to catch them? Not sure what your going for here.. Nothing is fullproof! But I shouldnt want to say I wasnt suspicious of someone and could have stopped something then didnt..

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                          #5.11 - Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:26 AM EDT
                          {"commentId":2851882,"authorDomain":"xanthiana"}

                          Ok how many actual criminals have we caught.. more than innocent people.. Yes.. or are the prisons filled with all innocents??

                          Have to find the statistics again, but many more innocents were kept in Guantanamo than guilty people. Most, who the US claims were found on battlefields, were actually sold to the authorities for a decent head money. You get the unliked in a neighborhood like that, but not necessarily the guilty ones. Or do you think it's a coincidence that there are I think about 100 trials to be expected, when there are still about 500 imprisoned there. And I am sure that the prisons look similar.

                          And honestly, had you or I been subjected to that treatment they receive in Guantanamo, we might go back looking for revenge as well.

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                          #5.12 - Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:21 AM EDT
                          {"commentId":2853218,"authorDomain":"killfile"}

                          Ok how many actual criminals have we caught.. more than innocent people.. Yes.. or are the prisons filled with all innocents?? What is the answer to not try to catch them? or to attempt to catch them? Not sure what your going for here.. Nothing is fullproof! But I shouldnt want to say I wasnt suspicious of someone and could have stopped something then didnt..

                          Of course we should try to catch dangerous people and people we suspect of being dangerous. But that's what our legal system is for.

                          Look, the whole of the American judicial system is based upon the idea that it's better to let a guilty man go free than to let an innocent man suffer in prison. We are locking our enemies up, we are told, to protect freedom and democracy... but what of freedom and democracy is there left to protect if people can be locked up without the ability to challenge their imprisonment?

                          Absolutely we should try to catch terrorists... and then we should try to determine -- fairly, reasonably, and legally -- if the people we've caught are terrorists.

                          And if they're not we should let them go.

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                          #5.13 - Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:15 AM EDT
                          {"commentId":2866039,"authorDomain":"darthmaulrob"}

                          Unfortunately our system doesnt allow us to easily extract info...legally from terrorists that would just assume die. This brings us to the solution of the camps..Sorry to say it is a lessor of 2 evils, we let them run free, run free within our judicial system by clothing feeding and providing Cable TV and AC to, or we put them into harsh camps where MOST of them need to be where we can extract info from them about other people who dont mind killing ALOT of innocent people, like buildings full of them and planes full of them.. remember that..And yes there are always innocent people who are wrongly accused of things, and there are innocent people who die as well..But there should always be more bad guys killed or imprisoned than good guys.. and there are! So it seems like the system which is not without flaws, we dont live in a utopia, is working fine. If you have some view of a perfect system then you might want to talk to Karl Marx or one of those guys.. they had the same idea.. didnt work out too well.

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                          #5.14 - Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:45 PM EDT
                          {"commentId":2869782,"authorDomain":"killfile"}

                          Unfortunately our system doesnt allow us to easily extract info...legally from terrorists that would just assume die.

                          Yea it does. They'll talk without torture and without imprisonment in perpetuity and we'll do our best to get that information out of them. And if we don't we don't.

                          It's worth pointing out that we have yet to hear of a single terror plot stopped because of key information acquired through "extraordinary rendition."

                          Good ol' fashioned police work has cracked every single one.

                          Personally, I'd rather live with the minuscule risk that something will slip by than sacrifice everything our nation was founded on in the blind pursuit of imaginary safety.

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                          #5.15 - Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:14 PM EDT
                          {"commentId":2870056,"authorDomain":"drfade3000"}

                          Absolutely we should try to catch terrorists... and then we should try to determine -- fairly, reasonably, and legally -- if the people we've caught are terrorists.

                          Exactly.
                          The suspect is a suspect not a criminal and he might give false confession under torture or he might wince to harsh torture and die because he has nothing to tell

                          The unfair detension and torture didn,t make the world a safer place ,
                          on contrary it fueld hatred among fundamentalost muslems and it increased the number of recruited terrorists and the number of terrorist operations comparing to their numbers before anti-terror war

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                          #5.16 - Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:37 PM EDT
                          {"commentId":2874497,"authorDomain":"xanthiana"}

                          we put them into harsh camps where MOST of them need to be where we can extract info from them about other people who dont mind killing ALOT of innocent people, like buildings full of them and planes full of them.. remember that.

                          The thing is that it seems most in those camps are not terrorists. Watch the documentary Taxi to the dark side and judged again. There are many high-profile Americans, who are involved in the government and military saying how pointless it is what's being done.

                          And honestly, you will not be able to eradicate terrorism by scooping to the level of terrorist, simply because these tactics will loose you needed allies and increase the number of you opponents.

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                            #5.17 - Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:30 AM EDT
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                            {"commentId":2973301,"authorDomain":"darthmaulrob"}

                            Ok wow you bone heads... The bombing today kind of backs up my point now doesnt it...lol

                            Yemen has a history of being unable to hang onto terrorist suspects. U.S. officials grumble about what they call lax detention policies. Seventeen suspects in the 2000 USS Cole bombing that killed 17 American sailors were arrested; ten of them escaped in 2003. One of the primary suspects in the attack, Jamal al-Badawi, escaped jail in 2004. He was taken back into custody last fall under pressure from the U.S. government.

                            Says it all.. now you know why we have to have other ways at catching them..Nuff Said! Get a clue.

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                            Reply#6 - Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:49 PM EDT
                            {"commentId":2983160,"authorDomain":"sedekka"}

                            Robert. What does what you said have to do with the article posted?

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                              #6.1 - Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:45 AM EDT
                              {"commentId":2983308,"authorDomain":"xanthiana"}

                              Ok wow you bone heads... The bombing today kind of backs up my point now doesnt it...lol

                              How so? You had the torture camps for what 5,6, or 7 years? Where was the evidence you got through your torture to prevent this? I guess it proves that you have no point.

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                                #6.2 - Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:41 AM EDT
                                {"commentId":2988152,"authorDomain":"sedekka"}

                                I find boneheads is an offensive world. This is just belittling what we are trying to knock down. Perhaps you should go to Dennis' link on how to approach people with respect instead of name calling. That's rude and uncalled for.

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                                  #6.3 - Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:01 PM EDT
                                  {"commentId":2992019,"authorDomain":"drfade3000"}

                                  ''Boneheads'' is more suitable to name those who are supporting ''retaliation'' at innocents by torturing them in secret jails to cover up the utter failure of anti-terror bullies in recognizing and chasing the true terrorists.

                                  It,s like give the manstream some perished suspects better than nothing.

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                                    #6.4 - Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:03 PM EDT
                                    {"commentId":3002013,"authorDomain":"darthmaulrob"}

                                    Do you have good numbers at how many innocents to how many criminals were allegedly tortured in these camps?

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                                    #6.5 - Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:13 AM EDT
                                    {"commentId":3006209,"authorDomain":"drfade3000"}

                                    I uess that CIA and Pentagon themselfves don,t have numbers because the tortured innocents in their glorious mission are just trifle collateral damage

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                                      #6.6 - Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:37 PM EDT
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                                      {"commentId":3014080,"authorDomain":"xanthiana"}

                                      Do you have good numbers at how many innocents to how many criminals were allegedly tortured in these camps?

                                      Just read the story of a former inmate of Guantanamo. In the book they claim there were roughly 500 people still incarcerated, but only about 100 trials to be expected. If this means that they only have evidence against 100 of them, that means 400 would be innocent.

                                      As far as he described the story, just about every inmate was tortured by way of lack of food and anything from speaking at the wrong time to not following orders immediately could lead to severe beatings.

                                      So my guess is that most inmates were mistreated. If they were tortured mostly depends on your definition of torture. But personally, I see the fact of being prohibited to speak with others, sit in single cells, unable to wash yourself and lastly being very aware that the slightest break of rules would get you up to five people beating on you as torture. Using my definition mostly everybody there was probably tortured.

                                      The book was a memoir. This book stated the same things as a documentary and what was leaked to the news, so I am guessing he is not too far of in telling what had happened to him.

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                                        Reply#7 - Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:50 AM EDT
                                        {"commentId":3020221,"authorDomain":"drfade3000"}

                                        Good information Xanthiana.
                                        And those 400 who have not been tried are the inmates of only one of US,s prisons on foreign countries. No one knows about the inmates detained in other secret prisons allover the world ..this is why they are made secretive.

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                                          #7.1 - Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:16 PM EDT
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                                          {"commentId":3020955,"authorDomain":"drfade3000"}

                                          This frightening video shows the kind of justice running inside secret jails...''Confess or die in 3 minutes''
                                          The miserable man looks completely unaware of what the brutal investigators are talking about...then we hear the sound of gunshot.

                                          How can any civilized person agree with such barbarism and injustice in the name of antiterror?
                                          Torturing and klling innocents is an utter disgrace of the nation

                                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocneQaBFvXg

                                          US Interrogator: "You have THREE minutes to live"

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