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Sat 11 Nov 2009Lithuania investigates claim it ran secret prison
LITHUANIA’S PARLIAMENT is investigating claims that the US Central Intelligence Agency turned an exclusive riding school outside the capital, Vilnius, into a secret interrogation centre for high-value al-Qaeda prisoners.
Persistent media reports suggest that the complex, near the village of Antaviliai, about 20km from Vilnius, served as a CIA “black site” from September 2004 to November 2005.
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