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CIA ‘Ran Secret Prison for Al-Qaeda’ in Lithuanian Riding School

Alex Constantine - November 19, 2009

A former horse riding school in the tiny Baltic state of Lithuania was used as a secret CIA prison to hold and interrogate top al-Qaeda terrorists, it has been claimed.

By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
The Telegraph | 19 Nov 2009

Lithuania 1526713c - CIA 'Ran Secret Prison for Al-Qaeda' in Lithuanian Riding SchoolA photo taken on November 19, 2009 shows a training center of the Lithuanian State Security Department, the country's domestic intelligence agency, in Antavilis near Vilnius Photo: AFP/GETTY

The allegations have sparked a parliamentary inquiry after President Dalia Grybauskaite said she harboured "indirect suspicions" that such a facility existed.

According to unnamed former intelligence operatives quoted by ABC News, the CIA built the secret jail in 2004 and used it for more than a year, flying in at least eight suspected al-Qaeda terrorists from Afghanistan.

MI5 and MI6 get go ahead for secret hearings The prison was reportedly built from scratch on the territory of a former horse riding school about 15 miles from Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, and included an underground annex. Pictures of the building said to be the former CIA jail show a bland-looking two-storey house surrounded by a fence and CCTV cameras. Locals say the building, which is now used as a training facility by Lithuania's state security service, originally had no windows.

Politicians in office at the time have denied all knowledge of such a prison and say there is no evidence to prove it existed. But President Grybauskaite has insisted that the claims be properly investigated.

"If this is true, Lithuania has to clean up, accept responsibility, apologise, and promise that it will never happen again," she said.

The scandal has affected the former Soviet republic's relations with Washington. Lithuania has said it will not accept a single former prisoner from the Guantanamo Bay prison until the matter is clarified. Former US government officials have suggested Lithuania was eager to please the Bush administration at the time in order to thank it for securing Lithuania membership of Nato in 2002.

The allegations make Lithuania the third European country after Poland and Romania to be accused of hosting secret CIA "black sites".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/lithuania/6607324/CIA-ran-secret-prison-for-al-Qaeda-in-Lithuanian-riding-school.html

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  1. look up Luke Elliott Sommer for more on cia torture; had locations for 65 torture centers; did a bank job in tacoma; BofA branch in 2 minutes, got running money, left, and exposed torture centers; wannabe reporters went with gov’t lie about him wanting money for crime family set-up; dumb puppets.

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    February 12, 2012 at 4:28 am

    ce399

    It would take a huge commitment of resources to find me and do away with me. The only people likely to do that are people with nothing left to lose. So, it COULD happen, but hey, you only die once

    This is beyond irredeemably offensive to me. Not even as a joke or “performance art.” This is exactly why I can never tell with “Americans” where the stupidity ends and the “COINTELPRO” begins.This is exactly why I have stopped attempting to communicate with “Americans”. (electronically or otherwise). This is exactly why I’m nvr “speaking” to you again and exactly why when I hear the words “US CITIZEN” I run in the opposite direction as fast as I can! Ta ta.

    lessermystery.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/and-now-for-a-bit-of-a-twist/

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