
Romania denies hosting CIA jails Reuters \|\| November 22, 2005 [KDR: Related Article - CIA running secret prison system] Romania is prepared to allow investigations at two military bases to show they were not used by the CIA as secret detention centres, President Traian Basescu said in an interview published on Monday. Basescu denied the U.S. intelligence agency had used any Romanian facilities in what the Washington Post said was a secret operation to hide al Qaeda captives in central and eastern Europe. "I am categorical -- there are no such prisons in Romania," Basescu, who is visiting Paris for talks with President Jacques Chirac, told the French newspaper Le Figaro. "We are open to an investigation on the bases of Timisoara and Kogalniceanu which are suspected of housing such prisons," he added, but gave no further details. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com The U.S. Army used the airbase near Mihail Kogalniceanu village in southeastern Romania as a hub to send equipment and troops into Iraq during the early stages of the 2003 invasion, and temporarily kept up to 3,500 American troops there. The Romanian and French air forces have conducted joint training exercises at the base at Timisoara in western Romania. U.S.-based organization Human Rights Watch has identified Romania and Poland as countries that may have been used by the CIA in a secret operation which is alleged by the Washington Post to have been hiding al Qaeda captives. Romania is a candidate to join the EU and Poland is already a member of the 25-nation bloc. The Union's top justice official said last week there was no evidence that any EU state had housed secret CIA detention centers. The Council of Europe, the continent's top human rights watchdog with no institutional relationship to the EU, has opened an investigation into the allegations. About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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Romania denies hosting CIA jails

Reuters || November 22, 2005

[KDR: Related Article - CIA running secret prison system]

Romania is prepared to allow investigations at two military bases to show they were not used by the CIA as secret detention centres, President Traian Basescu said in an interview published on Monday.

Basescu denied the U.S. intelligence agency had used any Romanian facilities in what the Washington Post said was a secret operation to hide al Qaeda captives in central and eastern Europe.

"I am categorical -- there are no such prisons in Romania," Basescu, who is visiting Paris for talks with President Jacques Chirac, told the French newspaper Le Figaro.

"We are open to an investigation on the bases of Timisoara and Kogalniceanu which are suspected of housing such prisons," he added, but gave no further details.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

The U.S. Army used the airbase near Mihail Kogalniceanu village in southeastern Romania as a hub to send equipment and troops into Iraq during the early stages of the 2003 invasion, and temporarily kept up to 3,500 American troops there.

The Romanian and French air forces have conducted joint training exercises at the base at Timisoara in western Romania.

U.S.-based organization Human Rights Watch has identified Romania and Poland as countries that may have been used by the CIA in a secret operation which is alleged by the Washington Post to have been hiding al Qaeda captives.

Romania is a candidate to join the EU and Poland is already a member of the 25-nation bloc. The Union's top justice official said last week there was no evidence that any EU state had housed secret CIA detention centers.

The Council of Europe, the continent's top human rights watchdog with no institutional relationship to the EU, has opened an investigation into the allegations.

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