U.S. agents visit Ethiopian secret jails (AP)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

U.S. agents visit Ethiopian secret jails

By ANTHONY MITCHELL, Associated Press Writer
Tue Apr 3, 10:50 PM ET

NAIROBI, Kenya - CIA and FBI agents hunting for al-Qaida militants in the Horn
of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from 19 countries held at
secret prisons in Ethiopia, which is notorious for torture and abuse, according
to an investigation by The Associated Press.

Human rights groups, lawyers and several Western diplomats assert hundreds of
prisoners, who include women and children, have been transferred secretly and
illegally in recent months from Kenya and Somalia to Ethiopia, where they are
kept without charge or access to lawyers and families.

The detainees include at least one U.S. citizen and some are from Canada,
Sweden and France, according to a list compiled by a Kenyan Muslim rights
group and flight manifests obtained by AP.

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John Sifton, a Human Rights Watch expert on counter-terrorism, went further.
He said in an e-mail that the United States has acted as "ringleader" in what he
labeled a "decentralized, outsourced Guantanamo."

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070404/ap_on_re_af/africa_terrorism_5

[Eugene]

1. U.S. officials question Islamists held in Ethiopia

Source: Reuters

U.S. officials question Islamists held in Ethiopia
Wed Apr 4, 2007 6:49PM EDT

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials have questioned suspected Islamist
militants in Ethiopia in hopes of uncovering details about al Qaeda activities in
East Africa, officials said on Wednesday.

A main focus of the questioning by CIA and FBI agents has been the 1998 attacks
on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and three al Qaeda suspects believed
to be in the Horn of Africa.

Human rights advocates said scores of Islamists from 18 countries, including the
United States, were captured in Kenya while fleeing war-torn Somalia earlier this
year and had since become victims of a secret detention program that could erode
international support for the U.S. war on terrorism.

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A CIA spokesman declined to comment in detail but said U.S. actions were lawful
and stressed none of the captives had been in U.S. custody or transferred across
international boundaries with U.S. assistance.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0435502920070404

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2. war crimes trial for Bush. Oh and the rest of his ring too.