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조사될 영국 섬에 공포 용의자를 위한 은밀한 CIA 감옥의 요구
일요일, 2007년 10월 제 21
· 법적인 자선은 Diego Garcia 요구에 활동을 촉구한다 Ian Cobain와 리처드 Norton 테일러
CIA가 군주 영국 영토에 은밀한 형무소에 심문을 위한 알루미늄 Qaida 용의자를 붙들었다 주장은, 후견인 배웠다 MPs에 의해 조사될 것이다. 모든 당 외교 문제 위원회는 기관이 Diego Garcia에 그것의 소위 "까만 위치" 형무소의 한을 운영한 오래 계속되는 의혹, 큰 미국 군사 기지에 가정 인 인도양에 있는 영국 해외 영토를 시험할 것이다. 집행 유예에서 변호사는, Guantánamo 만에 몇명의 피억류자를, 몇몇 이전 영국 거주자를 포함하여 대표하는 법적인 자선, 위원회를 주장에 관하여 미국 그리고 영국 관리를 심문하는 요구하고 있다. 위원회에게 조직의 제출에 따르면, 영국 정부는 "잠재적으로 체계적으로 실종의 인류에 대하여 가장 심각한 범죄에서 complicit 이고, 외부와의 연락이 두절되는 제지"를 고문하고 머리말을 붙였다. 포로가 섬에 붙들었다 확신이 "절대로 그리고 명백하게 확신했다는 것을" 자선의 법적인 지도자, Clive Stafford 스미스는 밝혔다. "외교 문제 위원회가 이것에 철저하게 접근하는 경우에, 그것이 에 의하여 진상을 규명할 것이다," 그는 말했다. Chichester를 위한 앤드류 Tyrie, Tory MP와 CIA의 예심 없는 제지의 사용에 대하여 종군자는 또한, 위원회를 조사하는 촉구했다. 그는 말했다: "몇 번이고 영국 정부는 계속 그들자신을 위한 이 주장의 진실을 시험하는 것을 사절하는 이 문제점에 미국 보험을 의지한다. 우리의 정부가 모래에서 그것의 머리를 가지고 가고 이 주장으로." 본 알맞은 때이다 동일한 응답 외교 문제 위원회의 일원은 위원회가 브리튼의 해외 영토로 그것 조회의 한 부분으로 주장을 추구할 것이라고 말했다. Diego Garcia는 영국 인도양 영토의 일부분이더라도, CIA가 포로를 거기 억류했다는 것을 있건 없건 간에 영국 정부가 알고 있다는 것을 불분명하다. UK officials are known to have questioned their American counterparts about the allegation several times over a period of more than three years, most recently last month. Whenever MPs have attempted to press ministers in the Commons, they have met with the same response: that the US authorities “have repeatedly given us assurances” that no terrorism suspects have been held there. The existence of the CIA’s black site prisons was acknowledged by President George Bush in September last year. He said al-Qaida suspects or members of the Taliban who “withhold information that could save American lives” have been taken “to an environment where they can be held secretly, questioned by experts”. Mr Bush did not disclose the location of any prison, but suspicion that one may have been located on Diego Garcia, some 1,000 miles off Sri Lanka’s southern coast, has been building for years. The 2,000 islanders were expelled in the early 1970s after the British government struck a secret deal to lease the 37-mile long island to the US for use as an air and naval base. Any evidence uncovered by the foreign affairs committee pointing to the existence of a secret CIA prison on the island would be hugely embarrassing for ministers. Barry McCaffrey, a retired four-star US general who is professor of international security studies at the West Point military academy, has twice spoken publicly about the use of Diego Garcia to detain suspects. In May 2004 he said: “We’re probably holding around 3,000 people, you know, Bagram air field, Diego Garcia, Guantánamo, 16 camps throughout Iraq.” In December last year he repeated the claim: “They’re behind bars…we’ve got them on Diego Garcia, in Bagram air field, in Guantánamo.” MPs on the committee may inquire into a Gulfstream executive jet which has been linked by its registration number to several CIA prisoner operations - known as extraordinary renditions - and which flew from Washington to Diego Garcia, via Athens, on September 11 2002, soon after the capture of Ramzi Binalshibh, a suspected planner of the September 11 attacks the previous year. A prison of some sort is known to exist on Diego Garcia: in 1984, a review by the US government’s general accounting office of construction work on the island reported that a “detention facility” had been completed the previous December. British ministers have also disclosed that a building on the island was redesignated as a prison after the September 11 attacks. ‘Confirmation’ Last June Dick Marty, a Swiss senator who investigated the CIA’s use of European territory and air space during prisoner operations, concluded in a report to the Council of Europe that prisoners had been held on the island. Mr Marty, who later told the European parliament that he had received help from senior CIA officers, reported: “We have received concurring confirmations that United States agencies have used Diego Garcia, which is the international legal responsibility of the UK, in the ‘processing’ of high-value detainees.” One possibility which the foreign affairs committee may explore is that suspects have been held on a prison ship off the coast of Diego Garcia. The UN special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, has said that he has heard from reliable sources that the US has held prisoners on ships in the Indian Ocean. There have also been second-hand accounts from detainees at Guantánamo of prisoners being held on US naval vessels. One detainee told a researcher from Reprieve: “One of my fellow prisoners in Guantánamo was at sea on an American ship with about 50 others before coming to Guantánamo. He told me that there were about 50 other people on the ship; they were all closed off in the bottom. The people detained on the ship were beaten even more severely than in Guantánamo.” At a glance · Diego Garcia is a 37-mile-long coral island surrounding a lagoon in the Indian Ocean, the largest such atoll in the Chagos archipelago. Discovered by the Portuguese in the 16th century, it remained uninhabited until French coconut planters shipped in slave labour 200 years later. · Ceded to Britain after the Napoleonic wars, the archipelago was a dependency of Mauritius until 1965, when it was detached, later becoming the British Indian Ocean Territories, sovereign British territory. · Over the next eight years the 2,000 inhabitants were forcibly removed, first to the Seychelles and then to Mauritius, where many remain economically marginalised. The atoll was leased to the US military and it later emerged that Washington made a series of secret payments, including a reported £14m discount on the Polaris nuclear missile system. · A 50-strong group of UK military personnel act as customs officers, police and wildlife guardians, and their commanding officer is coroner. But this group is dwarfed by around 3,200 Americans. · The Chagos islanders won a battle in their campaign to return when the appeal court ruled last May that the right to go home was “one of the most fundamental liberties known to human beings”. · This article was amended on Friday October 19 2007. Have Your Say: Claims of secret CIA jail for terror suspects on British island to be investigated Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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