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...Amnesty's report, titled "Partners In Crime," comes on the heels of a 67-page report released last week by the Council of Europe, which charges that 14 European countries helped the CIA move terror suspects and that two of them (Romania and Poland) likely had secret CIA prisons. That report's author, Swiss parliament member Dick Marty, used language as tough as Amnesty's, accusing the U.S. of creating "this reprehensible network" and European partners of "grossly negligent collusion...
...European countries named in the Amnesty and Council reports have all denied they helped the CIA in the renditions. Poland and Romania claim they had no secret prisons, but the European Parliament pledged Tuesday to spend another six months investigating those allegations, and may send fact-finding missions to both Eastern European countries. The U.S. government insists it doesn't practice torture or condone it in other countries. Marty has acknowledged he has no hard evidence on the CIA rendition network nor European collusion in it. But he insists that there's enough circumstantial evidence to hold Europe culpable...
...allegations are basically sound. [an error occurred while processing this directive] What do they show, and what are the chances that this zealous investigation will reduce the practice of torture? Much of the report rehashes old charges; it cites, for example, a "preponderance of indications" that Romania and Poland housed secret detention centers in which, presumably, terrorist suspects were kept en route to or from a country like Cuba or Afghanistan where they could be tortured with minimum legal interference. The involvement of such New European countries - although hotly denied - would not be wholly unexpected, since they were among...
...Shortly after Kristof began his Rhodes Scholarship in 1981, he traveled to Eastern Europe on a vacation. While he was in Poland, the government declared martial law. Kristof, as Grafstein recalls, sent the first dispatch out of the country, stringing for The Washington Post...
...least since he covered Poland in 1981, Kristof has frequently found himself in risky situations...