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"Mr President, following 11 September 2001, the United States, on the pretext of maximising security, have been waging an underground, and for a time secret
war. It involves what we could call the ‘relocation of torture’, made topical recently when an Egyptian citizen was kidnapped in a street in Milan, allegedly on the orders of the CIA. The Italian Public Prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for the thirteen American citizens involved in the seizure of the alleged terrorist, who was sent to Egypt to be subjected to special treatment. Cairo acknowledged it had received him as a result of extraordinary procedures. Those procedures are known in CIA jargon as ‘extraordinary surrender’, which is equivalent to the subcontracting of torture. A person suspected of being connected to terrorism is kidnapped and sent to a country, normally an Arab country, specialising in that art. Secretly, and without respecting any rights, the individual is removed from the territory of the United States, and hence its native principles, which fortunately reject such behaviour, are not violated, since the interrogations take place on foreign territory.
To the question on these issues put by three Socialist Members, the Commission replied that it is impossible for it to take action since this involves kidnaps carried out by a third country on the territory of Member States. I can understand that, but nevertheless, the Union does have close links with the countries responsible for the scandal I am referring to. I therefore believe that, although the Community has no competence, the Council should be concerned to make it very clear that Europe acts differently in its international relations."@en1
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