The Washington Post is reporting the CIA has used the headquarters of Jordan’s spy agency as a secret holding cell for prisoners captured abroad. At least a dozen non-Jordanian nationals have been held and interrogated at the General Intelligence Department over the past seven years. The Jordanian spy center was used to hide prisoners before they were sent to Guantanamo Bay or secret prisons around the world. Jordanian officials are said to have carried out the interrogations despite widespread allegations of torture. A report from a UN special investigator recently concluded torture is “routine” at the center amidst “total impunity for torture and ill-treatment” countrywide.
Report: Jordanian Spy Center Jailed CIA Prisoners
HeadlineDec 03, 2007