The first information memorandum on CIA rendition flights and alleged detention centres dismantles the largely shared statement ‘we didn’t know’. Dick Marty makes clear that governments, or at least the intelligence services, should have been aware of what was going on, given the high number of CIA-chartered flights that have passed through European countries.

In the case of Germany, two CIA linked aircraft were reported to have landed 137 and 146 times in 2002 and 2003 respectively. While the report has no ‘irrefutable evidence’ on secret detention centres in Poland and Romania, it draws an alarm signal regarding the not-so-secret KFOR detention centre in Kosovo (Camp Bondsteel).

Camp Bondsteel is not open for inspection by the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), while arrested prisoners have no recourse to judicial procedures or legal representation.

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extrait :

« Where Kosovo is concerned, the KFOR detention centre (Camp Bondsteel) is not »secret« in so far as its existence has been well-known for a long time now. Back in 2002 the Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Gil-Robles, reported on his findings in situ. At the hearing with our committee on 13 December 2005 the Commissioner for Human Rights repeated that the Kfor detention centre had “many parallels with Guantanamo : prisoners arrested without recourse to any kind of judicial procedure or legal representation”. Nor is Camp Bondsteel open for inspection by the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), which has the right to inspect all places of detention in States Parties to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture (including Serbia and Montenegro), and which has not hitherto obtained authorisation to visit. Negotiations are in progress with KFOR. »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/21/kosovo

commentaire 

America’s ultimate objective in its military ’intervention’ in what was then Yugoslavia, which ,with UK help, was the construction of Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo.An independent Kosovo makes a Kosovo government easier to control and deal with, in pretty much the same way as the British broke Kuwait away from Iraq, so that a family of subservient sheiks running the Kuwait government made it a lot easier for the British to deal with, regarding exploitation of Kuwait’s oil reserves.

Camp Bondsteel is by far the biggest overseas military base since Korea and is part of Rumsfeld’s ’lily-pad’ global strategy, whereby a system of strategically-placed military bases will tighten the noose on Russia and overseeing the oilfields of the Caspian and the middle East.

Because of Saudi-Arabia’s increasing unreliability, the US airforce which is based there is now being relocated to Camp Bondsteel, which, as said before, is on Russia’s doorstep looking them right in the eye, while being able to launch operations over both the Caspian region as well as the Middle-East. Perfect.

All the talk about Blair/Brown and Clinton/Bush’s ’liberal interventionism’ (of which Ash is one of the main propagandists) is strictly for the gullible. The real reason for the US invasion of Kosovo is Camp Bondsteel (google it for details).

This ever-increasing US military expansionism has provoked Russia and China to form a formal military alliance of self protection, and carry out periodic joint military exercises accordingly. They have drawn a line in the sand and warned the US against attacking Iran, where both countries have extensive (and legal) joint oil-projects with the Iranians. If it wasn’t for Russian and Chinese opposition to US military action, the US and/or Israel would have attacked Iran a long time ago. Russia and China have had enough of Rumsfeld’s ’lily-pad’ objectives of which the invasion of Kosovo and the construction of Camp Bondsteel was a very major element.

Oh ! Btw, I’m sure you’ve all heard of the American so-called ’rendition’ flights ? Well, it just so happens that Camp Bondsteel is one of the main destinations for these flights. No US legal juristiction to interfere with interrogative torture a la Guantanemo.Be interesting to know what Mr. Ash’s views are regarding this little matter in the newly ’independent’Kosovo. The Kosovan government are not going to complain that’s for sure. As far as they are concerned Camp Bondsteel is American territory. That’s the kind of government that America likes, which is why the US/UK has installed them.

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http://www.spokesmanbooks.com/Spokesman/PDF/90bunyan.pdf

Alvaro Gil-Robles (Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner) says that there is a camp at US base ‘Bondsteel’ outside Pristina (in Kosovo) that looks like Guantánamo Bay.

http://www.truth-out.org/un-secret-detention-report-asks-where-are-the-cia-ghost-prisoners56473

Also mentioned are two little-reported facilities in the Balkans - Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo and Eagle Base in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina - and a claim that Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean (a British territory leased to the US) was used in 2005-06 to hold Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, a joint Syrian-Spanish national.

bref, pas un Guantanamo ? Mais bien une prison à tortures...