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in Afghanistan .]] Black site is a Military Term for a location at which a Black Project is conducted. The term has been used by United States Intelligence Agencies to refer to any Classified facility whose existence or true purpose is officially denied by the US government. Recently the term has gained notoriety in describing secret Prison s, generally outside of the mainland U.S. territory and legal Jurisdiction , and with little or no political or public Oversight . It can refer to the facilities that are controlled by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used by the U.S. in its War On Terror to detain suspected Enemy Combatant s. One of the alleged purpose is to detain suspected Terrorists outside of the Intelligence Oversight Act which authorizes Congressional supervision. Other purposes, according to the February 2007 European Parliament report, includes detaining suspects while CIA flights used in the Extraordinary Rendition program make their way through European territory 1. US President George W. Bush acknowledged the existence of secret prisons operated by the CIA during a speech on September 6 , 2006 .2 A claim that the black sites existed was made by '' The Washington Post '' in November 2005 and before by Human Rights NGO s.3 Many European countries have officially denied they are hosting Black Sites to imprison terrorists or cooperating in the US Extraordinary Rendition program. No countries have confirmed that they are hosting black sites. However, according to the EU report, adopted on February 14, 2007 by a majority of the European Parliament (382 MEP s voting in favour, 256 against and 74 abstaining), the CIA operated 1,245 flights, and stated that it was not possible to contradict evidence or suggestions that secret Detention Centres were operated in Poland and Romania. This 2007 report "regrets that European countries have been relinquishing control over their airspace and airports by turning a blind eye or admitting flights operated by the CIA which, on some occasions, were being used for illegal transportation of detainees" 4 Key excepts of the February 2007 report adopted by the European Parliament . A Presidential Directive allows the agency to capture and hold specific classes of suspects without accounting for them to the public, or revealing the conditions they face in the prisons. Opponents of this practice charge that US officials have ordered (or deliberately overlooked) Prisoner Abuse . Apart from the hundred CIA Detainees , Swiss politician Dick Marty 's January 2006 report concluded that another hundred had been kidnapped on European territory and Rendered to other countries, some of which use Torture . An investigation on the origins of the leaks has also been opened by the U.S. Justice Department to investigate what may have been illegal release of classified information. DETAINEES See Also: Detainees in CIA custody The list of those thought to be held by the CIA include suspected al-Qaeda members 2006 ] A number of the alleged detainees listed above were transferred to the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay prison on Cuba in the fall of 2006. With this publicly announced act, the United States government de facto also acknowledged the existence of secret prisons abroad in which these prisoners were held. SUSPECTED BLACK SITES |
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