CIA (Europe) torture camps 'closed in November'

reuters: CIA prisons in Europe closed in November: ABC News

The United States held captured al Qaeda suspects at two secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe until last month when the facilities were shut down after media reports of their existence, ABC News reported on Monday, citing current and former CIA agents.

Eleven al Qaeda prisoners [db: al Qaeda prisoner? Surely 'alleged' al Qaeda prisoner - or is that anachronistic in this 'changed world'] who were held in Eastern Europe were relocated "to a CIA site somewhere in north Africa," ABC reported, citing CIA sources.

The United States scrambled to get all of the suspects off European soil before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Europe on Monday, ABC said, citing the sources.

ABC said the CIA declined comment and an agency spokesman was not available when Reuters tried to contact him.

According to ABC News, eight top al Qaeda figures and three others were held at one time at a former Soviet air base in Eastern Europe and some were later moved to a second country. ABC said Polish sources had identified a base as the site of one of the secret prisons. Read more

db: Like the Washington Post, ABC didn't have the balls to name the country[s] involved - in line with US requests.