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3/2/06

Europe is 'happy hunting ground' for foreign spies, says watchdog

Independent Online Edition > Europe

"Europe is 'happy hunting ground' for foreign spies, says watchdog
By Stephen Castle in Brussels
Published: 02 March 2006

Europe is a 'happy hunting ground' for foreign security services, the continent's leading human rights watchdog concluded yesterday, as it called for new legal safeguards against secret rendition of terror suspects.

Drawing on formal responses to questions to 46 member countries, the Council of Europe's secretary general, Terry Davies, criticised Europeans for their subservience to US intelligence. Governments should co-operate on counter-terrorism with the US as 'equal partners' and not in 'the role of the proverbial three brass monkeys'."

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