18.01.2008, 20:54
Zitat:
"Tortured in Thailand
Destroyed CIA videotapes show the water-boarding of two suspected al-Qaeda leaders at secret CIA interrogations in Thailand during 2002, a US congressional hearing has heard.
Thai authorities have long denied the existence of the so-called prison in Thailand - apparently on the narrow interpretation of the description of the facility.
It has long been well known that US agents removed several senior terrorist suspects from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Thailand for initial interrogation.
Thaksin Shinawatra, the prime minister at the time of the interrogations, has always denied that there was any CIA "base" or "prison" in Thailand. Foreign sources have told the Bangkok Post that the denials were technically correct.
The interrogations - or torture - of al-Qaeda suspects was carried out at so-called safe houses on a military base in Thailand, the sources said......"
http://www.bangkokpost.net/topstories/t ... ?id=125235 (http://www.bangkokpost.net/topstories/topstories.php?id=125235)
"Tortured in Thailand
Destroyed CIA videotapes show the water-boarding of two suspected al-Qaeda leaders at secret CIA interrogations in Thailand during 2002, a US congressional hearing has heard.
Thai authorities have long denied the existence of the so-called prison in Thailand - apparently on the narrow interpretation of the description of the facility.
It has long been well known that US agents removed several senior terrorist suspects from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Thailand for initial interrogation.
Thaksin Shinawatra, the prime minister at the time of the interrogations, has always denied that there was any CIA "base" or "prison" in Thailand. Foreign sources have told the Bangkok Post that the denials were technically correct.
The interrogations - or torture - of al-Qaeda suspects was carried out at so-called safe houses on a military base in Thailand, the sources said......"
http://www.bangkokpost.net/topstories/t ... ?id=125235 (http://www.bangkokpost.net/topstories/topstories.php?id=125235)