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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9314
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European Parliament on Tuesday to publish final version of draft report on illegal CIA activities in Europe

Brussels, 24/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, Claudio Fava (PES, Italy), the rapporteur for the European Parliament's temporary investigation into the alleged CIA illegal activity in Europe, will publish his draft final report, to be voted upon by the temporary investigation committee on 23 January 2007 and voted upon by the European Parliament plenary in Strasbourg in February. The report will make several recommendations to EU Member States and list the countries suspected of collaborating with the CIA, housing secret gulags (detention centres) and collaborating in illegal renditions. Fava explains that when visiting Warsaw (Poland), because of 'extremely unsatisfactory' cooperation from the Polish authorities, he was unable to confirm whether Poland had been involved. In their most recent hearings, the MEPs on the investigation committee heard the report of a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner for the first time, Murat Kurmaz, giving credence to the theory that German secret services had cooperated with the United States before his arrest. Former High Representative of the international community in Bosnia Herzegovina, Wolfgang Petritsch, said 'the United States would have been ready to withdraw its support for the peace implementation mission' had the government of Bosnia Herzegovina refused to hand over the 'Algerian Six' (six Bosnian residents of Algerian origin handed over to the US and sent to Guantanamo). Khaled el Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese origin, who says he was kidnapped three years ago and imprisoned for months in Afghanistan by the CIA, has received money from the US to keep quiet, explained former German interior minister Otto Schily to the German parliament's investigation into this affair. A delegation of MEPs from the investigative committee will be travelling to Portugal on 5 December to meet the Portuguese foreign minister. (bc)

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