2002
CIA accused of torture at Bagram base"The Washington Post paints a harrowing picture of the procedures for
extracting information from terrorism suspects at such centres as Diego Garcia, the Indian Ocean island leased from Britain, and Bagram, the large US airbase in Afghanistan."
U.S. Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations"The off-limits patch of ground at Bagram is one of a number of secret detention centers overseas where U.S. due process does not apply, according to several U.S. and European national security officials, where the CIA undertakes or manages the interrogation of suspected terrorists.
Another is Diego Garcia, a somewhat horseshoe-shaped island in the Indian Ocean that the United States leases from Britain."
2003
CIA's proxy torture undermines law -- and our humanity"The article, by Dana Priest and Barton Gellman of the Washington Post, graphically
reveals how U.S. interrogators at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan,
on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, and at other overseas sites, have brutally treated al Qaeda and Taliban forces in a "brass-knuckled quest for information" to uncover future terrorist plots.
These
detention centers (including the Bagram and Diego Garcia facilities) are off limits to independent agencies such as the Red Cross, which might monitor prisoner conditions and treatment."
2007
Records show Diego Garcia link to alleged torture flights"The journeys of the aircraft, a Gulfstream registered N379P, are disclosed in a list of more than 3,000 flight logs obtained by Stephen Grey, an investigative journalist and author of Ghost Plane. The same aircraft
flew from Washington via Athens to the British Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia, the logs show. It is the first time that the British-owned territory, where the US has a large airbase, has been linked to the controversial CIA flights. Though there have been persistent reports in the US that detainees have been secretly held in Diego Garcia, the British government has always dismissed the claims."