This afternoon we spoke to Human Rights Watch, which had told several news organizations that it believed that the “black sites” were located in Poland and Romania, two members of the Coalition of the Willing, both with troops in Iraq. HRW’s evidence ends up interesting but circumstantial; what was reported by Agence France Presse and the Financial Times rests entirely on the flight records of a single plane, a Boeing 737 with the tail number N313P.
We’ve seen flight records, on September 22, 2003, the plane flies from Kabul to Szczcytno, a small town in Northeastern Poland. The same plane lands on September 23 at the Mihail Kogalniceanu military airfield in Romania. … We don’t know what was in that airplane, we know that it’s been documented by others that it was used to fly detainees around. … It’s evidence, not proof. … If I were a citizen of Poland or Romania, I would damn well want to know what my countries were up to.
Carol Bogert, Associate Director, Human Rights Watch
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Human Rights Watch report, The CIA’s Long-Term “Ghost Detainees???
