Monday, January 09, 2006

Inquiry launched into US base claims

"A FAX sent by the Egyptian foreign ministry to its embassy in London stated that more than 20 Iraqis and Afghans had been questioned at a US-run base in Romania, a Swiss newspaper has reported.

SonntagsBlick said the Swiss secret services obtained a copy of the fax which said that the Egyptian embassy in London "learned from its own sources that 23 Iraqi and Afghan citizens had been questioned at the Mikhail Kogalniceanu base in the town of Constanza on the Black Sea coast".
The newspaper quoted a report written by the Swiss defence ministry which said Egypt believed there were "similar centres in Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria".

The Swiss ministry reacted to the report with a statement saying it would open an investigation into how the information was leaked.

However, because the report is supposed to be secret, the ministry refused to comment on its contents.

A senior officer at the Mikhail Kogalniceanu base told AFP that he categorically denied the report."
News.com
Well now we know.

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