AFP agency has revealed the location of one of the secret prisons where people arrested during the „war on terror” were being kept.
The prison localized by the journalists was placed in one of the Romania's government buildings in the northern side of country's capital Bucharest.
The building's code-name was „Bright Light”, one of the prisoners kept in its basement was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, considered as the on of the masterminds of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
The prisoners were in Bucharest until 2006, when they were finally moved to the American military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Until today, the place where the CIA prisoners were kept in Romania remained unknown. Previous journalist investigation has revealed similar prisons in Lithuania (a village near Vilnius) and Poland (military base in Stare Kiejkuty). The discovery of a CIA prison in Bucharest was an effect of cooperation between journalists from French AFP and German public television ARD.
Only few years ago the existence of the CIA secret bases in the Central-East Europe was considered as a „conspiracy theory” and not many people treated these stories seriously. In my book „Kod Władzy” („Code of Power”) main characters, who are journalists, are going to Mazury (region in Northern Poland where prisons were located) to examine informations about one of them. How many similar mysteries still wait to be revealed by the Fourth Estate?
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