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ABC News: New facts on CIA prisons |
American TV ABC News has revealed details of proving the existence of secret CIA prisons in Lithuania - Lithuanian inform the media.
ABC reported numbers of on-board the aircraft, which transported prisoners, the date of landing in Vilnius, and the flight paths. According to television, 20 September 2004, a Boeing 707 with the number of board N88ZL made a direct flight from Bagram base in Afghanistan to Vilnius. On board the aircraft was to be a terrorist al-Qaeda. In July 2005, the Gulfstream IV aircraft charter with the number of board N63MU took a direct flight from Kabul to Vilnius. Several former CIA officers confirmed the flight and the fact that it has been used to transport the prisoner to Lithuania. ABC News reported that the prison in Lithuania was the last institution of this kind the CIA in Europe after the end of 2003 closed the prison in Poland. While the prison was closed in Vilnius, where in November 2005 revealed information about the alleged CIA prisons in Poland and Romania. At the end of August, the American station, referring to former officers of one of the U.S. intelligence agencies, reported that up to 2005 in the vicinity of Vilnius detained eight al-Qaida terrorists. Lithuania's Foreign Ministry denies, then President Valdas Adamkus and the then Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas. On Tuesday, the President of Lithuania Grybauskaite said during a press conference that he has "indirect suspicion" and "The West does not doubt in it, that in Lithuania there were secret CIA prisons. The President pointed out that if the suspicions are confirmed, Lithuania will have to take responsibility for this and apologize.
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