Israel - terrorist state - acknowledges running secret detention center (just like the US)

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Mon, Jun 30, 2003 11:51AM

Since then, all Palestinian prisoners have been moved, and the center "is used, if at all, for special circumstances, for detainees who are not residents of the territories," it said. It was not clear which law enforcement agency continues to use the facility.

Both the army and prime minister's office, which is responsible for Shin Bet, refused to comment on the identities and nationalities of prisoners kept there, or what is meant by "special circumstances."

Israel acknowledges running secret detention center
GAVIN RABINOWITZ, Associated Press Writer Sunday, June 29, 2003
(06-29) 22:44 PDT JERUSALEM (AP) --

Israel's Shin Bet security agency has held Palestinian prisoners incommunicado for weeks at a time at a secret detention center in violation of international law, The Associated Press has learned.

Prisoners say they are blindfolded and kept in black, windowless cells. When they ask where they are, they are told: "On the moon."

Israel refuses to say where the center is located or who is being kept there, but hints foreigners are among the prisoners.

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