Here's a new column from the Boton Glope about outrage sweeping Europe concerning secret detention camps and CIA transfers of prisoners through EU airports:
CIA charges roil EU on eve of visit
Rice trip comes amid probes of detentions
By Colin Nickerson and Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | December 4, 2005
BERLIN -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flies into a hornets' nest of criticism tomorrow as she begins a four-country swing through Europe amid mounting outrage over allegations that the United States has conducted covert counter-terrorism missions on the continent.
Accusations that the United States has snatched terrorism suspects from European streets, operated secret detention facilities, and used airports as layover points for CIA planes transferring captives have caused a furor. The charges have provoked parliamentary inquries, caused close US allies to issue indignant demands for information, and triggered a spate of criminal investigations.
Most of the allegations are speculative, but they have made for blaring headlines from Portugal to Poland in recent days and stoked anti-US anger on the continent to levels not seen since the invasion of Iraq. The European Union's top justice official warned last week that any member state found to have permitted secret US jails on its territory could be stripped of its voting rights in the organization......
Full story at:
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/...f_visit?mode=PF