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  • U.S. Put Jails in Lithuania, Premier Says 23 Dec 2009 01:31 GMT
    ... were clandestine and illegal arrangements with the Lithuanian secret services for prisons that were outside ... The report was based on testimony from politicians and national security officials. It was initiated ... that state security officials never informed senior government officials, like the prime minister, about the ...

  • CIA used Lithuania 'black sites' 22 Dec 2009 11:51 GMT
    ... at least two secret detention centres in Lithuania after the 11 September 2001 terror attacks ... the parliamentary report appears to absolve Lithuania's political leaders of responsibility for any human rights violations ... in secret detention centres. A controversial European Parliament report, however, spoke of hundreds of so-called ...

  • Lithuania denies report it hosted secret CIA prisons 23 Dec 2009 16:54 GMT
    ... -- Lithuania's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday rejected a report ... facilities without the knowledge of the country's political leadership. "To think that any national government would have foreign aircraft flying into its ...

  • Lithuania denies hosting CIA prisons 23 Dec 2009 16:55 GMT
    ... -- Lithuania's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday rejected a report ... facilities without the knowledge of the country's political leadership. "To think that any national government would have foreign aircraft flying into its ...

  • Inquiry finds Lithuania hosted two secret CIA prisons 23 Dec 2009 07:37 GMT
    ... An inquiry in Lithuania has suggested that the nation hosted at ... on testimony from public officials such as politicians and national security officials. The investigation began ... Minister or anyone else involved in the government of Lithuania. Former President Valdas Adamkus has ...

  • CIA set up secret jail in Lithuania, parliament concludes 23 Dec 2009 10:32 GMT
    ... Agency (CIA) ran a secret prison in Lithuania where al-Qaeda suspects may have been held, ... about the jails, and there was no political approval, he said. Prime minister Andrius Kubilius ... be possible to detain suspected terrorists without government control. In a statement, he said he ...

  • Energy projects of Lithuania and Poland will be carried out on time 23 Dec 2009 08:56 GMT
    ... States news & analytics Energy projects of Lithuania and Poland will be carried out on ... will be carried out on time, Energy Minister Arvydas Sekmokas has been assured of that ... increase the region's energy security. The Polish government considers these projects to be priorities and ...

  • Deputy Mayor of Riga proposes forming new government with Harmony Center 15 Dec 2009 10:31 GMT
    ... Seconds" this morning that, if the current government does not step down in January, he ... of March 2010, form a Cabinet of Ministers that would be capable of action. This ... managed to outplay us," Slesers said, mentioning Lithuania as example: there the income tax has ...

  • Lithuanian report inconclusive on how secret CIA prisons were used: Report on nation's intelligence agency rattles government 23 Dec 2009 03:23 GMT
    ... VILNIUS, LITHUANIA -- Lithuania's intelligence agency helped the CIA ... Security Committee drew on testimony by top politicians and national security officials. The investigation was ... Security Department had informed the president, prime minister or other political leaders of its cooperation ...

  • Mystery of a top Tory donor, Lithuanian woman, and 5.30am Belgravia 'assault' 20 Dec 2009 02:13 GMT
    ... and the Camerons in 2006 A young Lithuanian woman was outside the house in a ... attended by dozens of high-profile figures from politics, the media and showbusiness, including Mr and ... voted Tory, I fundamentally believe in small government and I want to level up, not ...

  • Mystery of a top Tory donor, Lithuanian woman, and 5.30am Be 20 Dec 2009 03:10 GMT
    ... and the Camerons in 2006 A young Lithuanian woman was outside the house in a ... attended by dozens of high-profile figures from politics, the media and showbusiness, including Mr and ... voted Tory, I fundamentally believe in small government and I want to level up, not ...

  • Lithuania hosted secret CIA jails 22 Dec 2009 22:54 GMT
    ... detention facilties in the Baltic nation of Lithuania, a parliamentary inquiry has found. The sites ... secret jails and there had been no government approval given for the sites. "The biggest ... Council of Europe, Dick Marty, a Swiss politician accused 14 European governments of permitting the ...

  • Probe finds secret CIA jails in Lithuania 23 Dec 2009 07:10 GMT
    ... and defence committee, said the investigation found Lithuanian intelligence opened two detention centres in cooperation ... about the jails, and there was no political approval, he said. Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius ... be possible to detain suspected terrorists without government control. In a statement, he said he ...

  • Ukraine and Georgia Still Inspired by Anti-Russian Politics 18 Dec 2009 09:37 GMT
    ... the point when the former Estonian Prime Minister Mark Laar serves as an economic adviser ... Defense Donald Rumsfeld called Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania “the new Europe.” The Baltic countries deserved ... Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania justified? From a political point of view, this is a rhetorical question. ...

  • Lithuania admits existence of secret prison 22 Dec 2009 18:57 GMT
    ... For the first time a European government has admitted that a secret “black site” ... site” existed on its territory, after a Lithuanian parliamentary committee concluded that a CIA secret ... have also been named by the European Parliament and the Council of Europe as allegedly ...


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"We have determined that the Lithuanian State Security Department has received requests from the CIA to establish detention facilities."
— Arvydas Anusauskas, chairman of Lithuanian Parliament National Security and Defense Committee, on finding that the CIA set up secret prisons in Lithuania following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

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