Editing Extraordinary rendition (section)

=== Black sites ===
In 2005, ''The Washington Post'' and [[Human Rights Watch]] (HRW) published revelations concerning CIA flights and "[[black site]]s", covert prisons operated by the CIA and whose existence is denied by the US government. The [[European Parliament]] published a report in February 2007 concerning the use of such secret detention centers and extraordinary rendition (''[[#European Parliament's investigation and report|See below]]''). These detention centers violate the [[European Convention on Human Rights]] (ECHR) and the [[United Nations Convention Against Torture|UN Convention Against Torture]], treaties that all EU member states are bound to follow.<ref>{{cite news | title=Europeans Probe Secret CIA Flights | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/16/AR2005111602198.html | access-date=18 December 2005 |newspaper=The Washington Post| first=Craig | last=Whitlock | date=17 November 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title= EU to look into 'secret US jails' | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4403166.stm | access-date=18 December 2005 |publisher=BBC News  | date=3 November 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=U.S. Faces Scrutiny Over Secret Prisons | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/03/AR2005110300422.html | access-date=18 December 2005 |newspaper=The Washington Post| first=Craig | last=Whitlock | date=4 November 2005}}</ref>

According to [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] two such facilities, in countries mentioned by Human Rights Watch, have been closed following the publicity. CIA officers say the captives were relocated to the North African desert. All but one of these 11 high-value [[al Qaeda]] prisoners were subjected to torture by the CIA, sometimes referred to as "[[enhanced interrogation techniques]]" authorized for use by about 14 CIA officers.<ref name="AbcNews051205">{{cite news | title=Exclusive: Sources Tell ABC News Top Al Qaeda Figures Held in Secret CIA Prisons | url=https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1375123 | access-date=18 December 2005 | publisher=ABC News|location=United States | date=5 December 2005 }}</ref>

==== Extraordinary renditions and black sites in Europe ====
[[File:CIA illegal flights.svg|thumb|upright=2.0|Alleged "extraordinary rendition" illegal flights of the CIA, as reported by ''[[Rzeczpospolita (newspaper)|Rzeczpospolita]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rp.pl/artykul/292283.html |title=Politycy nie pozwolili śledczym tropić lotów CIA |language=pl |work=Rzeczpospolita |date=17 April 2009 |access-date=17 July 2010 |first=Mariusz |last=Kowalewski |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723193053/https://www.rp.pl/artykul/292283-Politycy-nie-pozwolili-sledczym-tropic-lotow-CIA.html}}</ref>]]
In January 2005, Swiss senator [[Dick Marty]], representative at the [[Council of Europe]] in charge of the European investigations, concluded that 100 people had been kidnapped by the CIA in Europe—thus qualifying as ghost detainees—and then rendered to a country where they may have been tortured. Marty qualified the sequestration of [[Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr]] (aka "Abu Omar") in [[Milan]] in February 2003 as a "perfect example of extraordinary rendition."<ref name="Bbc060124">{{cite news | title=Europe 'knew about' CIA flights |publisher=BBC News | date=24 January 2006 | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4641810.stm | access-date=7 September 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Europe in Uproar over CIA Operations |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-flights26nov26,0,1837707.story?coll=la-home-headlines |access-date=18 December 2005 |work=Los Angeles Times |first=Tracy |last=Wilkinson |date=26 November 2005 }}{{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=CIA Flights in Europe: The Hunt for Hercules N8183J | url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,387185,00.html|access-date=18 December 2005 |work=Der Spiegel }}</ref> ([[#Council of Europe investigation and its two reports|See below: Council of Europe investigation and its two reports]])

''[[The Guardian]]'' reported on 5 December 2005, that the [[government of the United Kingdom]] is "guilty of breaking [[international law]] if it knowingly allowed secret CIA "rendition" flights of terror suspects to land at UK airports, according to a report by American legal scholars."<ref name="Guardian051205b">{{cite news | title=Special Reports: UK 'breaking law' over CIA secret flights | url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,1657737,00.html | access-date=18 December 2005 |work=The Guardian|location=London | date=5 December 2005  | first=Ian | last=Cobain}}</ref><ref name="DemocracyNow051205">{{cite web | title=British Tory MP Blasts Extraordinary Rendition, Says Britain Broke International Law and "Complicit in Torture" if Flights Passed Through UK | url=http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/05/1455243 | access-date=18 December 2005 | date=5 December 2005 | publisher=[[Democracy Now]] | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051216154348/http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05%2F12%2F05%2F1455243 | archive-date=16 December 2005 }}</ref>

According to ''[[Raw Story]]'', the Polish site identified by reporter [[Larisa Alexandrovna]] and Polish intelligence officer [[David Dastych]] is [[Stare Kiejkuty (base)|Stare Kiejkuty]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Soviet-era compound in northern Poland was site of secret CIA interrogation, detentions | url=http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Sovietera_compound_in_Poland_was_site_0307.html | access-date=11 July 2007 | archive-date=9 November 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109035206/https://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Sovietera_compound_in_Poland_was_site_0307.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> In response to these allegations, former Polish intelligence chief, [[Zbigniew Siemiatkowski]], embarked on a media blitz and claimed that the allegations made by Alexandrovna and Dastych were "...{{nbsp}}part of the domestic political battle in the US over who is to succeed current Republican President George W Bush," according to the German news agency Deutsche Presse Agentur."<ref>{{cite web | title=Former Polish intelligence chief who says report on CIA detention site part of US domestic battle admitted CIA had access to facility | url=http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Former_Polish_intelligence_chief_who_says_0308.html | access-date=11 July 2007 | archive-date=6 August 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806084008/https://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Former_Polish_intelligence_chief_who_says_0308.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==== Prison ships ====
The United States has also been accused of operating "[[Prison ship|floating prisons]]" to house and transport those arrested in its [[war on terror#U.S. objectives|''War on Terror'']], according to human rights lawyers. They have claimed that the US has tried to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees. Although no credible information to support these assertions has ever come to light, the alleged justification for prison ships is primarily to remove the ability for jihadists to target a fixed location to facilitate the escape of high value targets, commanders, operations chiefs etc.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Duncan |last1=Campbell |first2=Richard |last2=Norton-Taylor |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/02/usa.humanrights |title=US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships |work=The Guardian|location=London |date= 2 June 2008|access-date=17 July 2010 }}</ref>