Former al Qaeda terrorist hired as George Washington University’s security expert

Jesse Morton, former al Qaeda terrorist, hired as George Washington University’s security expert

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Ironic That We Celebrate Free Speech But Condemn Kaepernick

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Ironic That We Celebrate Free Speech But Condemn Kaepernick

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CPD Moves to Fire 5 Officers in Laquan McDonald Case

CPD Moves to Fire 5 Officers in Laquan McDonald Case

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Steroids May Be Behind Aggressive Behavior of US Police

Steroids May Be Behind Aggressive Behavior of US Police

Sputnik – 31.08.2016

Side-effects associated with police steroid use and abuse have become a dangerous element in the ongoing debate regarding overly violent behavior and the militarized law-enforcement culture of the United States.
In 2004, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) listed the many side-effects of steroid use, including mood swings, impaired judgment, depression, increased aggression, extreme irritability, hostility, and delusional behavior. Endemic steroid abuse could go a long way to explaining the aggressive and violent behavior used by American police, especially in situations that could easily have been safely de-escalated, according to the Free Thought Project. As with methamphetamine abuse, steroids bring a sense of invincibility, making the user feel indestructible.
According to the DEA, “The idea of enhanced physical strength and endurance provides one with ‘the invincible mentality’ when performing law enforcement duties.” Many examples of police brutality represent a trend in overt law-enforcement violence that could be the result of steroid abuse.
There currently is no policy to regulate the use of steroids by active-duty weapon-carrying law-enforcement employees.
Some police unions claim that drug tests, similar to those administered every day to suspects, violate their civil rights. A deeper reason why some refuse to be tested is that they are involved in selling, and using, steroids.
Santucci, a former police sergeant, got his department’s attention after he routinely took $30,000-$100,000 vacations, all on an annual salary of some $80,000, before deductions. In April 2015 Santucci was arrested for running an anabolic steroid manufacturing and distribution network.
He received a delay in sentencing twice, first to complete training to become an electrician, and second, due to “some scheduling conflicts,” according to attorney Dan LaBelle. On August 25 Santucci was finally sentenced to a mere 16 months in prison, along with two years of supervised release.
The disgraced cop sold enormous quantities of steroids to police officers, who used and further distributed his illicit product.
Santucci, however, may be the tip of the iceberg in the United States. Steroid use is a popular tactic for police officers and an epidemic, which until recently has been quietly shoved under the rug, is now revealed as the cause of much unnecessary violence and is shown to be a danger to the public.

Statute of limitations for rape could end under Cosby-case-inspired bill

Statute of limitations for rape could end under Cosby-case-inspired bill sent to Gov. Jerry Brown

Los Angeles Times | August 30, 2016 | 6:27 PM

California lawmakers on Tuesday sent Gov. Jerry Brown a bill to end the statute of limitations for prosecuting rape and other felony sex crimes in the state.
The bill was introduced by state Sen. Connie Leyva (D-Chino) in the wake of allegations from women who said they were raped by comedian Bill Cosby and were unable to see those crimes prosecuted because the statutes of limitations had expired.
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Brian Brown: Obama Undermines Family With Gay Marriage, Goal Of 'Normalizing Pedophilia'

Brian Brown: Obama Undermines Family With Gay Marriage, Goal Of 'Normalizing Pedophilia'

In a fundraising letter this week, Brian Brown claimed that President Barack Obama is foisting a 'secular Left' agenda on the world that includes 'normalizing pedophilia'

Turkey Joining EU Unlikely While Erdogan is President says German Commissioner

Turkey Joining EU Unlikely While Erdogan is President says German Commissioner

Germany's European Commissioner told the Bild newspaper on Tuesday that Turkey would probably not join the European Union while Recep Tayyip Erdogan was president. Read...

Germany Rejects Turkey’s Demand to Denounce Genocide Resolution

Germany Rejects Turkey’s Demand to Denounce Genocide Resolution

Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier rejected Ankara's demand that official Berlin distance itself from the Bundestag's Armenian Genocide recognition. Read...

Report reveals how the criminal justice system fails LGBTQ people

Report reveals how the criminal justice system fails LGBTQ people

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102 College Campuses Make LGBT Group's 'Shame List'

102 College Campuses Make LGBT Group's 'Shame List' - The New Civil Rights Movement

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Oklahoma woman, 84 and black, pepper-sprayed in the face by police in her home

Oklahoma woman, 84 and black, pepper-sprayed in the face by police in her home

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Current talks on TTIP deal with US should be halted

Current talks on TTIP deal with US should be halted – French foreign trade minister

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Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know: The National Anthem Is a Celebration of Slavery

Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know: The National Anthem Is a Celebration of Slavery

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BYU, BYU-Idaho named to 'Shame List' over LGBT policies

BYU, BYU-Idaho named to 'Shame List' over LGBT policies

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D-Day landing maps that guided the Allies to victory in the key WWII battle are revealed

The D-Day landing maps that guided the Allies to victory in the key WWII battle are revealed in their amazingly detailed glory after 70 years 

The 24 top-secret maps show, in incredible detail, the five Normandy beaches where Allied forces landed. They were prepared just over two weeks before that momentous day in 1944.

'They went down the line, shooting us with machine guns'

'They went down the line, shooting us with machine guns': Horrifying account of Shiite prisoner who played dead when ISIS barbarians massacred 600 as satellite images reveal mass graves in ravine

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The aerial photos offer the clearest look yet at massacres such as the one at Badoush Prison in Mosul, northern Iraq that left 600 male inmates dead.

Harrowing video shows Syrian rebels using wet MUD to treat a little girl's burns

Harrowing video shows Syrian rebels using wet MUD to treat a little girl's burns after Assad's forces firebomb Homs

WARNING: Graphic content. Syrian warplanes allegedly dropped incendiary weapons on the rebel-held neighborhood of al-Waer in Homs this weekend.

Apple holds Europe to ransom [Paying E50 over E1million profit reasonable?]

Apple holds Europe to ransom: Tech giant threatens to cut jobs in EU after Brussels orders it to pay back £11BILLION in tax over 'illegal' sweetheart deal with Irish government 

The European Commission's three-year investigation into Apple's sweetheart deal with Ireland has found it amounted to illegal state aid. In a damning report published today it emerged the tech giant paid as little as 0.005 per cent tax by funnelling its non-US profits through a 'so-called headquarters' in Ireland with no staff or premises then on to its $178billion (£120bn) offshore account (top right). The giant tax bill, which could reach £16billion ($21 billion) because of interest, will not be difficult for the company to pay because it made $53.4billion (£35billion) last year (bottom right) - the biggest profit in corporate history. But Apple will appeal and the tech giant's CEO Tim Cook, who previously called the probe 'political c**p', is threatening EU job losses. The US Treasury has also warned the EU not to pursue American companies over tax avoidance - but McDonald's, Google and Amazon could be next. Ireland has said it doesn't want Apple's money even though it is equivalent to £2,400 for each of its 4.5million residents and would cover the costs of its national health service for a year.

Beaten to death for being Polish [Result of BREXIT referendum?]

Beaten to death for being Polish: Six teenage boys are arrested for 'hate crime' after family man, 40, dies following street attack by gang

A murder inquiry has been launched in Harlow, Essex, after a Polish man was beaten to death by a gang of 20 boys and girls. Five teens have been arrested and another man remains in hospital.

Star-Spangled Bigotry: The Hidden Racist History of the National Anthem

Most people don’t know there’s more than one verse to the national anthem, and it’s the third that’s a doozy.

By: Jason JohnsonPosted: July 4, 2016

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Americans generally get a failing grade when it comes to knowing our “patriotic songs.” I know more people who can recite “America, F–k Yeah” from Team America than “America the Beautiful.” “Yankee Doodle”? No one older than a fifth-grader in chorus class remembers the full song. “God Bless America”? More people know the Rev. Jeremiah Wright remix than the actual full lyrics of the song. Most black folks don’t even know “the black national anthem.” (There’s a great story about Bill Clinton being at an NAACP meeting where he was the only one who knew it past the first line. Bill Clinton: Woke in the ’90s.)

In the case of our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” perhaps not knowing the full lyrics is a good thing. It is one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon, and you would be wise to cut it from your Fourth of July playlist.
“The Star-Spangled Banner,” as most Americans know it, is only a couple of lines. In fact, if you look up the song on Google, only the most famous lyrics pop up on Page 1:

Oh say can you see,
By the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed,
At the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
Through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched,
Were so gallantly streaming.
And thy rocket’s red glare,
Thy bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through thee night,
That our flag was still there.
Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.

The story, as most of us are told, is that Francis Scott Key was a prisoner on a British ship during the War of 1812 and wrote this poem while watching the American troops battle back the invading British in Baltimore. That—as is the case with 99 percent of history that is taught in public schools and regurgitated by the mainstream press—is less than half the story.
To understand the full “Star-Spangled Banner” story, you have to understand the author. Key was an aristocrat and city prosecutor in Washington, D.C. He was, like most enlightened men at the time, not against slavery; he just thought that since blacks were mentally inferior, masters should treat them with more Christian kindness. He supported sending free blacks (not slaves) back to Africa and, with a few exceptions, was about as pro-slavery, anti-black and anti-abolitionist as you could get at the time.
Of particular note was Key’s opposition to the idea of the Colonial Marines. The Marines were a battalion of runaway slaves who joined with the British Royal Army in exchange for their freedom. The Marines were not only a terrifying example of what slaves would do if given the chance, but also a repudiation of the white superiority that men like Key were so invested in.
All of these ideas and concepts came together around Aug. 24, 1815, at the Battle of Bladensburg, where Key, who was serving as a lieutenant at the time, ran into a battalion of Colonial Marines. His troops were taken to the woodshed by the very black folks he disdained, and he fled back to his home in Georgetown to lick his wounds. The British troops, emboldened by their victory in Bladensburg, then marched into Washington, D.C., burning the Library of Congress, the Capitol Building and the White House. You can imagine that Key was very much in his feelings seeing black soldiers trampling on the city he so desperately loved.
A few weeks later, in September of 1815, far from being a captive, Key was on a British boat begging for the release of one of his friends, a doctor named William Beanes. Key was on the boat waiting to see if the British would release his friend when he observed the bloody battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore on Sept. 13, 1815. America lost the battle but managed to inflict heavy casualties on the British in the process. This inspired Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” right then and there, but no one remembers that he wrote a full third stanza decrying the former slaves who were now working for the British army:

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

In other words, Key was saying that the blood of all the former slaves and “hirelings” on the battlefield will wash away the pollution of the British invaders. With Key still bitter that some black soldiers got the best of him a few weeks earlier, “The Star-Spangled Banner” is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom. Perhaps that’s why it took almost 100 years for the song to become the national anthem.
To hear more of the story, there is an excellent short documentary about the history of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by some students at Morgan State University. In the meantime, it might be a good idea to switch up your Fourth of July patriotic playlist.

Jason Johnson, political editor at The Root, is a professor of political science at Morgan State’s School of Global Journalism and Communication and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera International, Fox Business News and SiriusXM Satellite Radio. Follow him on Twitter.

Ankara Urges Germany to Revoke Genocide Vote to Visit Incirlik Air Base

Ankara Urges Germany to Revoke Genocide Vote to Visit Incirlik Air Base

Turkish permission for German lawmakers to visit the Incirlik air base will depend on the German government distancing itself from the Bundestag Armenian Genocide recognition. Read...

This Bakery Is Receiving Massive Hate For Creating A Transgender Ken Cake

This Bakery Is Receiving Massive Hate For Creating A Transgender Ken Cake

By Amanda Froelich on Aug 29, 2016 12:20 pm
At Freeport Bakery in California, the staff never question why customers want the cakes that they do. They just create them – masterfully, we might add – and often celebrate the endeavor...

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EU-US trade talks have de facto failed, says Germany’s Gabriel

TodayThe vice chancellor said free trade talks with the US had failed, but that a similar deal with Canada was much fairer and should be adopted. Read on »

Sarkozy campaign targets Calais migrants

Sarkozy campaign targets Calais migrants

TodayPeople seeking international protection in the so-called Jungle in Calais in northern France should be moved to the UK, said French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy. Read on »

British government split on EU workers

Report: British government split on EU workers

TodayThe British treasury is willing to let EU migrants keep coming to the UK in return for single market access, but other ministries want to take a hard line. Read on »

92 deaths, 2,623 bullets: Tracking every Chicago police shooting over 6 years

92 deaths, 2,623 bullets: Tracking every Chicago police shooting over 6 years

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Top 20 facts about refugees and asylum seekers

Top 20 facts about refugees and asylum seekers

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Former Obama Aide David Plouffe Calls Donald Trump A ‘Psychopath’

A former top adviser to President Barack Obama on Sunday labeled Donald Trump a “psychopath”, saying the Republican presidential nominee met the clinical definition of the personality disorder.

With a little more than two months to go before the Nov. 8 U.S. election, the comments by David Plouffe, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama and manager of his 2008 presidential campaign, mark another escalation in a series of blows exchanged between Trump’s camp and that of his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton. Read more.

Someone Using Email Address Of Trump’s Doctor Demanded Money For An Interview

Someone using an email address connected to Harold Bornstein,Donald Trump’s doctor, apparently doesn’t want to miss out on the opportunity to cash in on the GOP presidential nominee’s campaign.

Bornstein wrote a letter in December saying Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” The doctor told NBC News on Friday that he had written the letter in five minuteswhile a limo waited outside. Read more.

 

Mike Pence Won’t Explain Donald Trump’s Stance On Deportations

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump muddied his position on immigration this week, making it unclear whether he stands by his previously articulated plan to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. The equivocation has made hard work for his closest allies, including his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.

On Sunday, Pence dealt with the issue by dodging it.

In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Pence claimed that Trump has not changed his position at all on immigration, even though the candidate recently said he’d be open to letting some undocumented immigrants remain in the U.S. if they paid back taxes. Trumppreviously called for a deportation force to remove all undocumented immigrants. Read more.

Trump Campaign Manager Doesn’t Even Try To Defend Him Over Dwyane Wade Tweet

Donald Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, found herself in the unenviable position Sunday morning of having to defend one of the candidate’s most despicable tweets ever.

On Saturday, Trump exploited the death of Nykea Aldridge, a mother of four and the cousin of Chicago Bulls star Dwyane Wade. Aldridge was shot and killed in crossfire on Friday as she pushed a baby in a stroller in Chicago. Read more.

The Death Toll in Yemen Is So High the Red Cross Has Started Donating Morgues to Hospitals

The Death Toll in Yemen Is So High the Red Cross Has Started Donating Morgues to Hospitals

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Poor People Can’t Be Jailed For Not Being Able To Pay Bail, Justice Department Says

Poor People Can’t Be Jailed For Not Being Able To Pay Bail, Justice Department Says – ThinkProgress

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Can Israel and the Arab States Be Friends?

Can Israel and the Arab States Be Friends?

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Should you charge your phone overnight?

Should you charge your phone overnight?

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Export ban placed on Queen Victoria's wedding coronet

• 28 August 2016
• From the section UK

 

 

 

A temporary export ban has been placed on a sapphire and diamond coronet that belonged to Queen Victoria, preventing it from being sold abroad.

The coronet, designed by Prince Albert for their wedding in 1840, is at risk of being exported unless a UK buyer matches the £5m asking price.
The temporary ban was imposed after the owner applied for an export licence.
Culture minister Matt Hancock, who imposed the ban, said it symbolised one of the UK's "most famous love stories".
The 11.5cm (4.5in) wide coronet is mounted with 11 sapphires, which are all set in gold, with diamonds set in silver.
Experts consider it to be one of the most important jewels of Queen Victoria's reign, matching a sapphire and diamond brooch given to her by Albert the day before their wedding.
National treasures: What else has the UK fought to keep?

Queen's portrait

Following Albert's death in 1861, Queen Victoria refused to attend the State Opening of Parliament until 1866, when she wore the coronet.
Both the coronet and brooch also featured in one of the most famous official portraits of the young Queen Victoria, in 1842, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
The coronet was given by King George V and Queen Mary to Princess Mary on her marriage to Viscount Lascelles in 1922. It was later sold to a dealer in London, who then sold it to the export licence applicant.

Image caption Official portrait of Queen Victoria wearing the coronet, in 1842, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

The temporary ban followed a recommendation by the reviewing committee on the export of works of art and objects of cultural interest, which is administered by the Arts Council.
It recommended the restriction on the grounds of the coronet's "close connection with our history and national life, and its outstanding significance for the study of the young Queen Victoria".
Committee member Philippa Glanville described the piece as "exquisite", adding: "It evokes vividly the shared romantic taste of the time, and its form has become familiar through many reproductions.
"Its departure would be a great loss, given its beauty, its associations and its history."
Mr Hancock said it was "one of the most iconic jewels from a pivotal period in our history".
"I hope that we are able to keep the coronet in the UK and on display for the public to enjoy for years to come."
The Department for Culture Media and Sport said a final decision over the export licence will be deferred until 27 December.

David Duke: Trump Makes Hitler Great Again

David Duke: Trump Makes Hitler Great Again

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10 “Secret” Prisons The CIA Conducted Ruthless Torture

10 “Secret” Prisons The CIA Conducted Ruthless Torture

10 “Secret” Prisons The CIA Conducted Ruthless Torture

August 26, 2016   By: LGHR   Black Sites, Torture   No Comment   //   43 Views

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According to many investigative reports, the Central Intelligence Agency, also known as the CIA, has many secret prisons across the globe. Not only that, but inmates are subjected to inhumane treatment and cannot exercise any of their legal rights. The CIA use what they call “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” in these prisons, and inmates are subjected to waterboarding, electric shocks, sleep deprivation, humiliation and beatings… Their understanding of “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” is basically torture. Here are the 10 most dangerous prisons where the CIA torture inmates ruthlessly:

Diego Garcia Island (Indian Ocean)

 

Diego Garcia is a coral island 1,600 kilometres south of India and 3,200 kilometres east of Tanzania. During the 60s and 70s the United Kingdom, upon the request of the U.S.A, exiled the locals of the island to various African countries to build a military base they called “Camp Thunder Cove.”
The camp’s existence was denied for years, but Colin Powell’s adviser Lawrence Wilkerson admitted it was true during an interview. According to Wilkerson, the camp was a military base where terrorists had been taken to be “specially interrogated” and its activity had increased since the 9/11 attacks
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Temara Interrogation Center (Morocco)

 

Temara Interrogation Center is located in a forest 8.7 miles to Morocco’s capital Rabat and it’s run by a Moroccan military unit called DST.
In 2003, Morocco was supervised by a committee tied to the UN and it was found that incidences of torture had risen considerably, even though the country had achieved a lot in terms of human rights. Then in 2004, Amnesty International claimed that the DST was punishing its inmates with torture and that most of this was happening in Temara. According to the report of Amnesty International,  the camp’s military staff were beating and humiliating inmates, executing them with electric chairs, burning them and waterboarding them.
I can almost hear you say “well what does this have to do with the CIA?” In 2010, the Associated Press reported that many American politicians confessed that the center was run by the Moroccan state but it was financed by the CIA. The Moroccan state still denies the existence of the camp until this day
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Mihail Kogalniceanu Airport (Romania)

 

According to  Romanian government agencies, the Mihail Kogalniceanu Airport, located in Romania’s Dobruca region,  is only used as a transfer point for inmates arrested by the CIA. Romania claims that the airport is not used for any form of detainment or interrogation.
In 2008 a Romanian politician who wanted to remain anonymous told USA Today that only American soldiers were allowed in the 3 military buildings located in the airport. In 2010, Der Spiegel reported that a group of 23 people, among whom were Iraqi and Afghani prisoners, were detained in the Mihail Kogalniceanu Airport. Even though there isn’t much evidence about the center, it is clear that there is a lot going on in the airport..
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Green Interrogation Center (Thailand)

 

Even though Thailand claims that not a single CIA center exists on its soil, many reports point to the existence of a mysterious place called Green Interrogation Center. Why is it a mysterious place you say? Well, because nobody really knows where it’s located…
According to an article published by the Guardian in 2009, some CIA agents admitted there were 92 tapes of interviews of terror suspects that were later destroyed. The Guardian newspaper also claimed that this mysterious center is where the CIA conducts experiments with their Enhanced Interrogation Techniques.
One of the people the CIA used as a guinea pig was a Saudi citizen named Abu Zubaydah. It’s claimed that the inmate suffered waterboarding extensively in this center
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Camp Lemonnier (Djibouti)

 

Djibouti, which is located in East Africa, is close to Yemen and Somalia which are hot spots for terrorist activity. It is an important strategic location for the American army. Djibouti’s Ambouli International Airport hosts an American military base called “Camp Lemonnier.”
According to a news report done by Al Jazeera in 2014, the base is also used by the CIA to interrogate inmates and subject them to torture. An interesting aspect of the news report is that even though president Obama decided to close down all black sites in 2009, these atrocities continued until 2012 in Camp Lemonnier
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Antavalia (Lithuania)

 

Next up is the mysterious riding school located in a village called Antavilia, 16 kilometers away from Lithuania’s capital city Vilnius. According to the Washington Post, this riding school was converted into a prison in 2004 so the CIA could interrogate Al-Qaida members caught in Afganistan.
Villagers claim that American contractors dug around the land surrounding the school and built an interrogation center under it. An ex-CIA agent, who wanted to remain anonymous, was interviewed by ABC News and said that the center had been in operation for years and that it housed 8 suspected terrorists. Following this, the center was sold to the Lithuanian state and is currently being used as a state security center
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Ashland Ship

 

According to a news article published in the Guardian in 2008, America confessed it housed 26,000 inmates in their secret prisons and their ships travelling the globe. The report also included that 17 American war ships were used by the CIA as torture centers. One of these ships is called Ashland. It houses 500 American troops and it is thought to be connected with hundreds of kidnappings and instances of torture around the world
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Stare Kiejkuty (Poland)

 

Located in the northeast of Poland is the Stare Kiejkuty military base.It’s a no-entry zone and inside it there is a site that was used as a Nazi police station during the 2nd World War. On paper a holiday camp, the area was used by the Polish intelligence during the 1970’s.
According to Polish officials who talked to the BBC in 2008, the area was used by the CIA as a military base to imprison its most dangerous inmates. Again, according to the BBC the architect of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was interrogated in this location.
In 2014, Poland’s ex-president Alexander Kwasniewski stated that during his years in office between 1995-2005, he made an agreement with the U.S.A. allowing the CIA to build black sites in Poland
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The Salt Pit (Afghanistan)

 

The CIA bought an old brick factory in the north of Afghanistan’s capital city Kabul and converted it into a prison in 2002.
In 2012, The Daily Beast described this military base as a dungeon where the CIA conducted sadistic practices, as many deaths were reported here. An example of this is Gul Rahman, who after having been stripped of his clothes was beaten and then chained to a wall on a cold night, left to die. A lawsuit filed following the event resulted in no CIA agent being responsible of Rahman’s death. In fact, one of the agents who chained him to a wall was awarded $2,500 dollars for being “consistent on the job” only after 5 months of Rahman’s death
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Camp Eagle (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

 

In 2005, two Bosnian men, named Nihad Karsic and Almin Harbeus, stated openly on the national TV station BHTV the torture they were subjected to in Camp Eagle. The men said they were detained under the suspicion they were terrorists and were kept on the camp for a long time.
During their detainment, the men claimed they were beaten by soldiers and were interrogated by American agents in civilian clothes, and after their release they were given 500 American dollars to keep their mouths shut.