Claims of secret CIA jail for terror suspects on British island to be investigated
19 Oct 2007
Source: The Guardian
Prisoners may have been held in ships off coast
Allegations that the CIA held 'al-Qaida' suspects for interrogation at a secret prison on sovereign British territory are to be investigated by MPs, the Guardian has learned. The all-party foreign affairs committee is to examine long-standing suspicions that the agency has operated one of its so-called "black site" prisons on Diego Garcia, the British overseas territory in the Indian Ocean that is home to a large US military base. According to the organisation's submission to the committee, the UK government is "potentially systematically complicit in the most serious crimes against humanity of disappearance, torture and prolonged incommunicado detention".
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