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CIA and FBI agents hunting for al-Qaida militants in the Horn of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from
19 countries held at secret prisons in Ethiopia, which is notorious for torture and abuse, according to an investigation
by The Associated Press.
Human rights groups, lawyers and several Western diplomats assert hundreds of prisoners, who include women and children,
have been transferred secretly and illegally in recent months from Kenya and Somalia to Ethiopia, where they are kept
without charge or access to lawyers and families. The detainees include at least one U.S. citizen, and some are from
Canada, Sweden and France, according to a list compiled by a Kenyan Muslim rights group and flight manifests obtained by
AP. . .
John Sifton, a Human Rights Watch expert on counter-terrorism, went further. He said in an e-mail that the United States
has acted as "ringleader" in what he labeled a "decentralized, outsourced Guantanamo."
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