Swiss paper Sonntagsblick has printed an intercepted fax from the Egyptian Foreign minister to its London embassy which confirms the existence of US torture camps in Eastern Europe
http://www.blick.ch/...
"The Embassy can confirm from its own sources that there are 23 iraqi and Afghani Citizens were interrogated on the base at Mihail Kogalniceanu near the [romanian]; city of Constanza on the Black Sea. Similar Interrogation centres exist in the Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria." (my translation)
This is the first confirmation from government sources of the camps. One sign of how seriously the Swiss authorities take the report is that they have threatened the paper with legal action for publishing confiential secret service intercepts. There are questions being asked in the Swiss parliament about the extent of Swiss government knowledge and complicity in the US action
The Swiss are particularly concerned about this issue since "rendition" using Swiss airports and airspace is violation of Swiss neutrality as well as a breach of international law and international convenetions on Human rights.
In a further blow to US hopes of finding allies in Europe newly elected German Chancellor Angie Merkel Condemned Guantanamo in the strongest terms saying that in the long term such an institution cannot and should not exist and that she would raise the issues in her forthcoming meeting with Bush.
http://www.spiegel.de/...
This is particularly significant since Merkel who replaced Social Democrat Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a fierce opponent of the US war in iraq, was expected to bring Germany closer to the US. But it seems that the time she spent in Communist East Germany has given her a greater respect for human rights issues than the President of the United States and his neocon supporters