CIA working with, supervising Palestinian torturers
Johnny Asia
Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly
torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West
Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the Guardian has learned.
The relationship between the CIA and the two Palestinian agencies
involved � Preventive Security Organisation (PSO) and General
Intelligence Service (GI) � is said by some western diplomats and
other officials in the region to be so close that the American agency
appears to be supervising the Palestinians' work.
One senior western official said: "The [Central Intelligence] Agency
consider them as their property, those two Palestinian services."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/17/cia-palestinian-security-agents
CIA working with Palestinian security agents
US agency co-operating with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly
torture Hamas supporters in West Bank
* Ian Cobain in Ramallah
* guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 December 2009 18.16 GMT
Protesters wave Palestinian flags during a protest against the
controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank. Photograph: Fadi
Arouri/Reuters
Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly
torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West
Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the Guardian has learned.
Less than a year after Barack Obama signed an executive order that
prohibited torture and provided for the lawful interrogation of
detainees in US custody, evidence is emerging the CIA is co-operating
with security agents whose continuing use of torture has been widely
documented by human rights groups.
The relationship between the CIA and the two Palestinian agencies
involved � Preventive Security Organisation (PSO) and General
Intelligence Service (GI) � is said by some western diplomats and
other officials in the region to be so close that the American agency
appears to be supervising the Palestinians' work.
One senior western official said: "The [Central Intelligence] Agency
consider them as their property, those two Palestinian services." A
diplomatic source added that US influence over the agencies was so
great they could be considered "an advanced arm of the war on terror".
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