Romania, Poland Scrutinized Over Prisons
yahoo/ap: Romania and Poland, stalwart allies in the U.S.-led global war on terror, came under increasing fire Tuesday amid widening reports that they hosted secret CIA prisons where top al-Qaida suspects were interrogated.
Top leaders in both countries denied it, but lawmakers in Romania called for a parliamentary investigation. The stakes are high: Although they have curried favor with the U.S., any proof of complicity could leave the former communist nations isolated and scorned in a Europe demanding a full accounting from Washington, and threaten Romania's drive to join the European Union in 2007. Read more
db: States that are comfortable with promoting US torture (excluding the UK) must be prevented from joining, or kicked out of the EU. Surely the US can set up some sort of New Europe Free Trade Zone to compensate them for their [misplaced] loyalty - after the EU cuts them off. Of course such a free trade zone will inevitably lead to the disintegration of their fragile economies, but that's a small price to pay.
Top leaders in both countries denied it, but lawmakers in Romania called for a parliamentary investigation. The stakes are high: Although they have curried favor with the U.S., any proof of complicity could leave the former communist nations isolated and scorned in a Europe demanding a full accounting from Washington, and threaten Romania's drive to join the European Union in 2007. Read more
db: States that are comfortable with promoting US torture (excluding the UK) must be prevented from joining, or kicked out of the EU. Surely the US can set up some sort of New Europe Free Trade Zone to compensate them for their [misplaced] loyalty - after the EU cuts them off. Of course such a free trade zone will inevitably lead to the disintegration of their fragile economies, but that's a small price to pay.
posted by exoplanet at 11:49 PM
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