Thailand Says It Was Unaware Of CIA 'Black Site' On Its Soil

Source: NPR

Thailand's prime minister says his government had no knowledge of a secret location inside the country where the CIA is said to have waterboarded top al-Qaida operatives in 2002.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha was responding to the so-called "torture report" released by the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this month that detailed the treatment of terrorism suspects at secret locations — black sites— around the world.

One such center, known by the CIA code-named "Cat's Eye," was reportedly in Thailand. It is where Abu Zubaydah, an alleged al-Qaida facilitator, and another alleged al-Qaida figure, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, are believed to have been subjected to waterboarding and other techniques in an effort to extract information about terrorist activities. Other such sites were reportedly established by the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan, Poland, Romania and Lithuania.

"The U.S. did not tell us anything. We didn't know where it was hidden," Prayut, an army general who seized power in Thailand in May, told reporters in the capital, according to The Bangkok Post.

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