Egyptian fax points to CIA jail in Romania
09.01.2006 - 09:49 CETA fax by the Egyptian foreign minister appears to confirm the existence of CIA prisons on European territory, according to a Swiss paper.
The fax was obtained by Swiss weekly SonntagsBlick from the Swiss secret services, who had intercepted the note sent by the Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Abu Gheit to the Egyptian embassy in London.
According to the Egyptian fax, 23 Iraqi and Afghan prisoners were interrogated at the Romanian military base Mihail Kogalniceanu on the Black Sea coast.
The document, which is also quoted by FAZ and Sueddeutsche, further earmarks Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia and Ukraine as other locations of the camps.
EU justice commissioner Franco Frattini told MEPs last month that he had received an official reply from the Romanian prime minister, denying accusations that his country was hosting secret prisons.
Allegations of the existence of covert CIA prisons for terror suspects in Eastern Europe were broken by the Washington Post newspaper in November, with NGO Human Rights Watch subsequently identifying Romania and Poland as possible hosts of the camps.
Mr Frattini has indicated that EU member states as well as candidate countries such as Romania and Bulgaria could face sanctions if the allegations are found to be true.
The fax was obtained by Swiss weekly SonntagsBlick from the Swiss secret services, who had intercepted the note sent by the Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Abu Gheit to the Egyptian embassy in London.
According to the Egyptian fax, 23 Iraqi and Afghan prisoners were interrogated at the Romanian military base Mihail Kogalniceanu on the Black Sea coast.
The document, which is also quoted by FAZ and Sueddeutsche, further earmarks Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia and Ukraine as other locations of the camps.
EU justice commissioner Franco Frattini told MEPs last month that he had received an official reply from the Romanian prime minister, denying accusations that his country was hosting secret prisons.
Allegations of the existence of covert CIA prisons for terror suspects in Eastern Europe were broken by the Washington Post newspaper in November, with NGO Human Rights Watch subsequently identifying Romania and Poland as possible hosts of the camps.
Mr Frattini has indicated that EU member states as well as candidate countries such as Romania and Bulgaria could face sanctions if the allegations are found to be true.
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