- U.S. "crating" prisoners and flying them around
Eastern Europe in C-130 prison planes. 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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- 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.
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- http://waynemadsenreport.com/
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