Polish president hints at CIA stopovers in Poland

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Polish president hints at CIA stopovers in Poland

WARSAW: President Aleksander Kwasniewski said Sunday that flights operated by the CIA may have stopped over in Poland but denied that prisoners were secretly held in his country. “Does the fight against terrorism need solidarity? Yes, it does. Does it need cooperation by special services? Yes, it does. Where there any secret flights. Probably,” Kwasniewski said on public television. But he added that “no (secret) prisons or prisoners” existed in Poland. The president spoke days before Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz is to present the findings of an inquiry on whether covert Central Intelligence Agency prisons existed in Poland where top Al Qaeda suspects were detained. Marcinkiewicz ordered the inquiry after United States-based Human Rights Watch allegations and media reports that the US’s CIA ran secret detention centers in Poland until recently for suspected terrorists captured by US forces. As the row over reports of covert flights and detentions in Europe escalated, Kwasniewski had said earlier this month that Poland never hosted a secret CIA-run prison for Al Qaeda suspects. afp
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