CIA Scrambled To Move Suspects Out Of Secret Eastern European Prisons Before Rice's Trip...

ABC News BRIAN ROSS and RICHARD ESPOSITO December 6, 2005 at 08:29 AM
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Two CIA secret prisons were operating in Eastern Europe until last month when they were shut down following Human Rights Watch reports of their existence in Poland and Romania.

Current and former CIA officers speaking to ABC News on the condition of confidentiality say the United States scrambled to get all the suspects off European soil before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived there today. The officers say 11 top al Qaeda suspects have now been moved to a new CIA facility in the North African desert.

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