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Главнокомандующий Армией отрицает наличие ЦРУ тюрем

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Сообщение voyager1970 » 04 мар 2009, 19:16

Главнокомандующий Армией отрицает наличие ЦРУ тюрем в Таиланде.

Главнокомандующий Армией отрицает наличие ЦРУ тюрем

Army chief denies existence of secret US jail in Thailand

BANGKOK: -- Thailand’s Army Commander-in-Chief Gen. Anupong Paochinda on Wednesday denied local and foreign media reports that quoted US Federal prosecutors as saying that Washington had a secret jail in Thailand where al-Qaeda suspects were interrogated.

Gen. Anupong’s unequivocal denial was made after a local newspaper published a report on Wednesday saying the disclosure was made by US Federal prosecutors in documents submitted to a court in New York as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Senior Thai authorities denied reports by two American news organisations in November 2005 which accused the CIA of using “rendition” flights to transfer alleged al-Qaeda operatives to Thailand.

“There’s no secret jail for torturing terrorist suspects in (the northeast Thailand province of) Udon Thani,” Gen. Anupong said. “There’s no secret place in Udon Thani. Anybody can visit every district or village.”

Gen Anupong said he could assert “one million per cent” that there was no such secret jail and he could use his position as Army chief to guarantee this.

He said the Thai military will not take any action on the report, but it is up to the government to respond to the report.

The airbase in Udon Thani was one of the five used by the United States during the height of the Vietnam war during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Сообщение voyager1970 » 04 мар 2009, 19:18

No CIA prisoners brought here since 2003 - Bangkok Post, January 22, 2008
...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 were carried out at so-called safe houses on a military base in Thailand, the sources said...


Waterboarding in Thailand: Station chief made appeal to destroy CIA tapes - Washington Post, January 16, 2008
In late 2005, the retiring CIA station chief in Bangkok sent a classified cable to his superiors in Langley asking if he could destroy videotapes recorded at a secret CIA prison in Thailand that in part portrayed intelligence officers using simulated drowning to extract information from suspected al-Qaeda members...
Thailand's "secret prisons" - June 13, 2007
The Council of Europe released a report today on secret prisons: ‘High-value’ detainees were held in secret CIA detention centres in Poland and Romania, says PACE committee


This report also had references to the reported Thai secret prison:

...we have been told that Thailand hosted the first CIA “black site,” and that Abu Zubaydah was held there after his capture in 2002. CIA sources indicated to us that Thailand was used because of the ready availability of the network of local knowledge and bilateral relationships that dated back to the Vietnam War.


One CIA source told us: “in Thailand, it was a case of ‘you stick with what you know’;” however, since the allegations pertaining to Thailand were not the direct focus of our inquiry, we did not elaborate further on these references in our discussions. The specific location of the “black site” in Thailand has been publicly alleged to be a facility in Udon Thani, near to the Udon Royal Thai Air Force Base in the north-east of the country. This base does have long-standing connections to with the approach of most US partner countries, the Thai Government has denied these allegations outright.


COMMENTARY: What the US could learn from Thailand - Asia Times, April 7, 2006
...Ralph "Skip" Boyce, the garrulous US ambassador to Thailand, has maintained that Washington has in no way assisted Thaksin's controversial counter-insurgency efforts, which, similar to US military operations in Iraq, have been attended by allegations of torture and abuse of Muslim detainees.
Bangkok-based European and Asian diplomats, however, beg to differ, claiming that the United States' behind-the-scenes role in the conflict is an open secret in diplomatic circles.
...Thaksin's Thailand plays host to a joint top-secret US Central Intelligence Agency-run counter-terrorism center, charged with managing covert operations throughout Southeast Asia, according to a senior Thai intelligence official attached to the National Intelligence Agency. Those ties appear to have paved the way for the CIA to establish a secret prison in Thailand, where abducted terror suspects were allegedly held and interrogated. Ambassador Boyce has repeatedly declined to comment on the specifics of the secret detention center. (The facility was closed down in 2003, according to the Washington Post.)...
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Сообщение Sergey22 » 04 мар 2009, 19:32

Его отрицание прозвучало чуть позже, признания администрацией США наличие этих тюрем на территории Таиланда.
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