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for "nefarious activities". He said that he had heard from three US intelligence sources that Diego Garcia was used as "a transit site where people were temporarily housed, let us say, and interrogated from time to time" and, "What I heard was more along the lines of using it as a transit location
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of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by retired United States Army General
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stated that United States authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there.
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when perhaps other places were full or other places were deemed too dangerous or insecure, or unavailable at the moment".
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published a 600-page unclassified summary of its 6,700 page secret report on the CIA's abuse of its secret prisoners.
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has had many threats of occupation by various groups, especially since the
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Diego Garcia was first rumoured to have been one of the locations of the
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of Diego Garcia were used to incarcerate and torture detainees.
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from 2002 to 2006. He claimed that Diego Garcia was used by the
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alleges that United States-operated ships moored outside the
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Cobain, Ian; Norton-Taylor, Richard (19 October 2007).
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A map of military installations on Diego Garcia in 2002
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Depopulation of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago
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The existence of the site was confirmed by US general
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Index

Chagos Archipelago
Depopulation of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago

TIME
Lawrence Wilkerson
War on Terror
Diego Garcia
CIA
Foreign Secretary
Jack Straw
CIA
black sites
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
high-value detainees
Foreign Affairs Select Committee
Barry McCaffrey
Barry McCaffrey
Dick Marty
Manfred Nowak
United Nations Special Rapporteur
torture
Reprieve
territorial waters
Mustafa Setmariam Nasar
Riduan Isamuddin
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
El Pais
United States Senate Intelligence Committee
"Mauritius threatens to take Chagos Islands row to UN court"
"Terrorism - British Indian Ocean Territory travel advice - GOV.UK"

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