Independent Online Edition > World Politics
"Pressure on Europe over CIA rendition
By Stephen Castle in Brussels
Published: 08 September 2006
European governments face mounting pressure to come clean over their involvement in secret CIA prisons after their existence was acknowledged by the US.
So far all European countries have denied hosting illegal, US-run detention centres for terror suspects.
But Terry Davis, secretary general of the 46-nation Council of Europe, said: 'It is in everyone's interests to clear the air. I am not going to accuse governments of lying but clearly it is difficult to reconcile what the Americans have said with what European governments have said.'"
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