EU report says secret prisons were known (by 11 countries)

By CONSTANT BRAND
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Eleven European Union governments - including Britain, Poland and Germany - knew about secret CIA prisons operating in Europe, a draft European Parliament report concluded Tuesday.

The report presented to the EU assembly's special committee investigating allegations about the detention centers and CIA kidnappings in Europe called on governments to launch their own inquiries to determine whether human rights laws were violated. It criticized top EU officials, including foreign policy chief Javier Solana and anti-terror coordinator Gijs de Vries of "omissions and denials" during testimony to the committee.

The draft also said there were more than a thousand CIA flights in the European region.

... The report said 11 EU nations - Britain, Poland, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Cyprus - had knowledge of the alleged U.S. secret anti-terrorism measures taking place on European soil.

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