A leaked report by the Red Cross, written in 2007, has renewed calls for an independent investigation into CIA renditions centers, including one allegedly in Poland.
The New York Review of Books has released the full 40-page report drawn up by the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2007 entitled ‘ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen ‘High Value Detainees’ in CIA Custody’ in which one of the prisoners claims that he was held in a ‘CIA prison’ in Poland.
The detainee, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, claims that he was held in Pakistan and Afghanistan and then transported to Guantanamo Bay via Poland.
Mohammed, who pleaded guilty to a US military commission on 11 February 2008 when charged with war crimes and murder, is, according to the 9/11 Commission Report, the “principle architect of the 9/11 attacks.”
Captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on 1 March 2003, Mohammed was held in CIA custody in secret prisons before the US government announced in September 2006 that he had been moved to Guantanamo Bay.
Snow on the ground
Mohammed claims in the report that, after leaving Afghanistan, he arrived in a country with snow on the ground.
“I think the country was Poland. I think this because on one occasion a water bottle was brought to me without the label removed. It had an e-mail address ending in ‘.pl.’ The central-heating system was an old style one that I would only expect to see in countries of the former communist system,” reads Mohammed’s full testimony.
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