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Wed, Feb 08 2012
Poland admits to aiding CIA
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After two human rights groups revealed evidence that showed US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) rendition planes landing in Poland in 2003, the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency has admitted for the first time that Poland played a role in the controversial program.
On 22 February 2010, the New York-based Open Society Justice Initiative and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights released flight records showing that airplanes involved in the US government's CIA extraordinary rendition program had landed on Polish soil at least six times between February and September 2003.
Five of the flights had originated in Kabul,, Afghanistan, and one in Morocco.
The groups had obtained the flight records through a freedom of information act request to the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency.
According to the groups' information, the planes had landed at the Szczytno-Szymany airport, a disused military air base that is located in the northern part of the country.
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On 22 February 2010, the New York-based Open Society Justice Initiative and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights released flight records showing that airplanes involved in the US government's CIA extraordinary rendition program had landed on Polish soil at least six times between February and September 2003.
Five of the flights had originated in Kabul,, Afghanistan, and one in Morocco.
The groups had obtained the flight records through a freedom of information act request to the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency.
According to the groups' information, the planes had landed at the Szczytno-Szymany airport, a disused military air base that is located in the northern part of the country.
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A wonderful example of the need for the US to work on its own problems, like public education, before straightening the rest of the world. Unless you are younger than 9, I can see no obvious reason for anyone to parade this complete lack of basic ability to articulate, convince or even debate. The only logical explanation to your post, would be that you are someone bent on making the US [...]
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Why don't I hear that Poland is the whore that gives in to anyone that comes around, like hear about BG from our esteem Western friends?
Anyone dealing with the Americans, have had their hands dirtied, it seems.
The US is running a mock of the EU - EU? What EU?
New Europe Old Europe...