US Now 'Crating' Prisoners In Dog-Sized Cages
Flown On C-130s To Prisons In Eastern
Europe Interrogated by US Personnel,
Contractors/Ex-KGB, Ex-Stasi
By Wayne Madsen
11-12-5
U.S. "crating" prisoners and flying them around Eastern Europe in C-130 prison
planes. Although The Washington Post failed to report on the details of CIA (now
Pentagon-run) "black" interrogation sites in eastern Europe, WMR is able to
report on the particulars of the covert operation.
According to a well-placed intelligence source who served in eastern Europe,
prisoners from Iraq and elsewhere have been flown from airport to airport in
eastern Europe on board C-130 planes. Placed in what were described as
"dog-sized" cages, the covert operation became fully operational after the
disclosures of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, Baghdad and Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr,
Iraq. The "crated" prisoners were either removed from the C-130s for
interrogation at Soviet-era detention centers that were in various states of
repair or were kept on board the aircraft and subjected to brutal interrogation
by U.S. and/or contractor personnel, who, in some cases, were ex-members of the
Soviet KGB, Stasi, and other eastern European security services. C-130s are used
because of their short take-off and landing capabilities on short air strips
located in remote regions.
The source, who spoke on a condition of anonymity, witnessed the ground work
being laid for the "black sites" in a number of countries and locations. These
include the Taszar airbase in south-central Hungary, near the town of Pecs;
Lv'iv, Ukraine; Szczynto-Szymany, Poland; Skopje, Macedonia; Mihail Kogalniceanu
airbase in Romania; Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia; Shkoder, Albania; Burgas,
Bulgaria; and the Markuleshti air base in Moldova.
Crating prisoners hearkens back to the Vietnam War when the U.S. used "tiger
cages" installed by the French on Con Son island off Vietnam to hold political
prisoners. The U.S. used the tiger cages to detain and torture suspected Viet
Cong sympathizers. Many of the prisoners were merely innocent Buddhists and
anti-war activists. The flying of caged prisoners from airport to airport on
chartered C-130s is yet another indication of what military judge advocate
general (JAG) lawyers have cited as the Bush administration's penchant for
placing prisoners in "law free zones."
Crating prisoners for Eastern European "frequent flyer torture" -- The latest
outrage from an administration that brought us white phosphorous chemical
weapons, sodomizing teen prisoners, and naked human pyramids.
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"We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the
world." Hugo Chavez
"If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does
not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of
the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the
laws' protection most - and listens to their testimony." --
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
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