Martelen 19

De Sunday Times bericht: 'CIA chief sacked for opposing torture.
The CIA’s top counter-terrorism official was fired last week because he opposed detaining Al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation and using forms of torture such as “water boarding”, intelligence sources have claimed. Robert Grenier, head of the CIA counter-terrorism centre, was relieved of his post after a year in the job. One intelligence official said he was “not quite as aggressive as he might have been” in pursuing Al-Qaeda leaders and networks.
Vincent Cannistraro, a former head of counter-terrorism at the agency, said: “It is not that Grenier wasn’t aggressive enough, it is that he wasn’t ‘with the programme’. He expressed misgivings about the secret prisons in Europe and the rendition of terrorists.” Grenier also opposed “excessive” interrogation, such as strapping suspects to boards and dunking them in water, according to Cannistraro. Porter Goss, who was appointed head of the CIA in August 2004 with a mission to “clean house”, has been angered by a series of leaks from CIA insiders, including revelations about “black sites” in Europe where top Al-Qaeda detainees were said to have been held.' Lees verder:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2036182,00.html En: http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0602&L=justwatch-l&D=1&O=D&F=&S=&P=41495 Nederlandse militairen in Afghanistan werken direct of indirect samen met de CIA. We kunnen straks niet zeggen dat we van niets hebben geweten.