The non-governmental organization Open Society Justice Initiative from New York recently published a list of 54 countries that helped the United States of America in operations of secret detention and torture of suspects after the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Among them is Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, it did not stop there.
Journalists investigating the role of the CIA and secret prisons have discovered that at least twenty prisoners, who ended up in secret locations and were tortured, are still missing.
After the attacks on the WTC on September 11, 2001, the US Central Intelligence Agency expanded its operations abroad to track down suspects at all costs, including torture for information.
Just two weeks after the WTC skyscrapers were demolished, the then Vice President of the USA, Dick Cheney, said that America would have to accept a mission that would go to the "dark side", reports Klix.ba.
"A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using the sources and methods available to our intelligence agencies," Cheney said at the time.
More than a decade later, even as the Barack Obama administration worked to close the secret prisons where people were tortured, reports indicate that the whereabouts of 20 inmates remain unaccounted for.
ProPublica, an organization that describes itself as offering "public interest journalism," made the announcement after reviewing a 216-page report that it says shows these people simply disappeared during the Bush administration.
The organization states that in 2009 they had a list of about 30 prisoners from the CIA's secret prisons and that in the meantime ten of them appeared, but that 20 are still missing and it is not known what happened to them.
"Today, more than ten years after the terrorist attack in New York, there is no doubt that Bush administration officials should be held accountable for human rights violations related to secret prisons and torture," ProPublica said in a report.
Former President George W. Bush has admitted that the CIA arrested and imprisoned about 100 people linked to 11/16 during his administration. Only XNUMX of them are known to have been transferred from one location to the Pentagon.
ProPublica has also published interviews with some of the people who have since come forward. Thus, it is learned that at least one of the 30 that ProPublica mentioned in 2009, Ali Abdul-Hamid al-Fakhiri, died between that last report in 2009 and today.
ProPublica also states that the CIA did not respond to their questions related to these events.
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