US helpers ranged from UL to Syria: Report
(NEWSER) – The US was far from alone in its controversial counterterror practices after 9/11: More than a quarter of the world's countries helped the agency, a new reportsays. Some partners hosted secret interrogation prisons; some arrested suspects; others let the CIA refuel its planes at their airports, the New York Times reports. "The moral cost of these programs was borne not just by the US but by the 54 other countries it recruited to help," says Amrit Singh, who wrote the Open Society Justice Initiative report. The document contains the longest list yet of those detained or transferred by the CIA: some 136 people.
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