| 07.09.200619:37 (GMT) | | Swiss senator Dick Marty, the head of the Council of Europe investigation into alleged CIA prisons in Europe, said today US President George W. Bush's admission his administration has run secret CIA prisons for terror’s suspects is "just one piece of the truth," news agency Associated Press reports. "There is more, much more to be revealed," Marty said in a telephone interview with the AP. He also called on European governments to step up their national investigations into the issue. Marty said 14 European nations - spanning from Dublin to Berlin to Bucharest - colluded with US intelligence in a "spider's web" of human rights abuses to help the CIA spirit terror suspects to illegal detention facilities, the news agency writes. Marty said in July that evidence suggests planes linked to the CIA carrying terror suspects stopped in Romania and Poland and likely dropped off detainees there, backing up earlier news reports that identified the two countries as possible sites of clandestine detention centres. Marty underlined that several countries allowed the CIA to use their airspace or turned a blind eye to questionable foreign intelligence activities on their territory. According to the AP, Marty listed the 14 European countries as the U.K., Germany, Italy, Sweden, Bosnia, Macedonia, Turkey, Spain, Cyprus, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Romania and Poland. | |
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