Slovakia not involved in suspected CIA activities in Europe

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Poll question: Slovakia not involved in suspected CIA activities in Europe

SLOVAKIA is not among the countries suspected of illegal cooperation with the CIA intelligence service in “rendering” terror suspects for interrogation abroad, according to a report by an investigation commission set up by the European Parliament (EP).

Slovak MEP Monika Beňová, who is a member of the investigation committee, confirmed that Slovakia was not among the countries suspected of involvement.

Another Slovak member of the committee, MEP Miroslav Mikolášik, also came to the same conclusion after hearing evidence from the Interior Ministry, the Justice Ministry, and the Slovak SIS intelligence service that no CIA flights or landings took place in Slovakia and no suspects in the war on terror were held here, the SITA news wire wrote.

The final report by the commission accuses 11 European countries including Great Britain, Poland, Germany, Italy, and Romania of having cooperated with the CIA in transporting and holding terrorism suspects in secret prisons. The yearlong investigation sought to refute or confirm the existence of secret CIA prisons identified in a Council of Europe report ...
http://www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok.asp?cl=26679


CIA secret planes landed 21 times in Czech Republic-EP committee

Strasbourg/Prague- The Czech Republic and Slovakia are not explicitly mentioned in a report on the CIA secret flights that was published by the European Parliament investigation committee today.

However, according to the supplementary documents to the report, CIA aircraft landed 21 times in the Czech Republic and once in Slovakia in 2001-2005 ...
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=236645


Slovakia pulls troops from Iraq
From correspondents in Bratislava
February 03, 2007 02:52am
Article from: Reuters

SLOVAKIA has pulled its troops out of Iraq, Prime Minister Robert Fico said today, branding the war there "unjust and wrong".

The withdrawal of 110 Slovak army engineers fulfilled one of the leftist Fico's top campaign promises in a June 2006 election in which he beat the centre-right administration of Mikulas Dzurinda.

By pulling out, Slovakia joins fellow EU nations Spain and Italy that also withdrew troops from Iraq following a government change.

Slovakia supported the US-led military campaign in Iraq under Mr Dzurinda, but Mr Fico has long opposed Slovakia's presence there and his government agreed in October to withdrew its forces ...
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21163318-5005961,00.html