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Another humiliation from Washington…
By: Elson
Concepcion
Havana, Cuba. -
The news disclosed by Russian agency Ria Novosti
is not only unusual, but also astonishing.
US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) operated a secret jail for “terrorists”
in Lithuania. This territory was part of the former
Soviet Union and even remained socialist during
a few decades.
The enclosure, according
to a former Washington secret agent, was located
in the premises of a horse riding academy not
far from Vilna, the Lithuanian capital.
A CIA jail operated
where people were supposed to learn how to ride
horses or participate in competitions. The inmates
were suspects of having connections with the organization
Al Qaeda.
According to ABC network,
this information was also corroborated by Lithuanian
government sources.
Last October 22, Lithuanian
president Dahlia Grybauskaite did not rule out
the possibility that a CIA jail existed in her
territory. She instructed a thorough investigation
and if the allegation turned out to be true, Lithuania
would apologize to the international community.
Lithuanian official
representatives showed documents to ABC network
certifying that in 2004, the CIA bought a plot
in a forest not far from the town of Antivilai,
20 kilometers southwest of Vilna. The company
Elite LLC was used as a front for the purchase.
The horse riding school that used to be in that
land was soon transformed into a jail of US secret
service.
Lithuanian officials
reportedly lent the CIA a building in Vilna suburbs
to recruit likely members of Al Qaeda, but its
exact location was not revealed.
But the worst embarrassment
for Lithuania is that it was exposed as having
allowed the opening of a CIA jail in 2002, after
George Bush’s visit to the country. He,
in turn, promised to facilitate the admission
of that State in NATO.
The Lithuanians were
further humiliated by White House former director
of counter-terrorism, Richard Clarke, currently
an ABC consultant. He said that as a brand-new
NATO member, Lithuania would be so grateful for
US support to join this organization that they
were willing to oblige any proposal from Washington
in those days.
It has been already
proven that different types of tortures were practiced
at US secret jail and everything that happened
there was illegal…
How do you like it?
Translated by:Pedro
A. Fanego
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04.12.2009 3:45 PM
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