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Posted by Maggie (Guest) - Saturday, October 7 2006, 1:15:27 (CEST)
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Figures they use the birthplace of Neo-socialism for their purposes...

Neo Cons all over the US must feel soooooo proud the interrogations took place in the Fatherland.

Germany denies new allegations on U.S. secret prison By Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent
Fri Oct 6, 2:04 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Germany denied allegations on Friday that prominent al Qaeda prisoners, including an accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks, may have been secretly questioned at a U.S. base on its soil.

The allegations were published by Reprieve, a British legal charity representing detainees held by the United States at its Guantanamo Bay prison camp on Cuba.

A team of European Parliament members (MEPs), investigating alleged U.S. abuses in the war on terrorism, reacted cautiously to the new material but called for further investigation.

Reprieve said one Guantanamo detainee, Binyam Mohamed, reported he was told by Moroccan interrogators in 2003 or early 2004 that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an alleged central figure in the September 11 plot, had been held for interrogation at a U.S. prison at an airforce base in Germany.

Another Guantanamo prisoner, Hassan bin Attash, said he was told by Jordanian interrogators that his brother Waleed Tawfiq bin Attash was also being held at a U.S. base in Germany.

A third man, Shaker Aamer, said he had changed planes at a German base while being transferred by the United States from Afghanistan to Guantanamo in 2002.

German government spokesman Thomas Steg told reporters: "There is nothing behind these allegations." He said there were not, and had never been, any U.S. secret prisons in Germany.

ALLEGATIONS NEED CHECKING

The online edition of Germany's Stern magazine reported on Friday that the federal prosecutors office in Karlsruhe had been investigating for the last two weeks whether the U.S. army had illegally detained three terror suspects at a base in Mannheim.

Prosecutors in Karlsruhe were not available for comment.

German MEP Wolfgang Kreissl-Doerfler told reporters in London: "In my opinion, the allegations are really very, very weak ... I'm skeptical, but it's necessary to look at it."

He said German prosecutors, already investigating the alleged U.S. secret transfer of an Egyptian suspect via Ramstein airbase in Germany in 2003, should follow up Reprieve's report, as should a German parliamentary committee which is probing the conduct of German security services and their cooperation with the United States.

The European Parliament team was in London as part of its investigation into alleged secret transfers of terrorist suspects by the United States.

Members criticized Britain's minister for Europe, Geoff Hoon, for giving "evasive" answers to their questions about numerous landings in Britain by planes operated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

"The government has not been very cooperative," Italian MEP Claudio Fava said, adding Hoon's replies were as unhelpful as those the MEPs had received previously from the United States.

Britain says it has no evidence that the United States has transported terrorist suspects via British airports.

A Washington Post report late last year that the United States had run secret prisons for terrorist suspects in Eastern Europe triggered widespread European indignation and a spate of investigations which have so far failed to locate such jails.

President George W. Bush acknowledged last month that the Central Intelligence Agency had interrogated dozens of terrorism suspects at secret overseas locations, saying intelligence gained from them had prevented further attacks.

Washington says it is not holding any detainees at secret prisons and has not said where such prisons are situated.

(Additional reporting by Erik Kirschbaum in Berlin)

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