European countries colluded in US "extraordinary rendition"

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PARIS (AFP) — Fourteen European countries colluded in or tolerated the secret transfer of terrorist suspects by the US, and two of them -- Poland and Romania -- may have harboured CIA detention centres, according to a report from the Council of Europe.

"It is now clear -- although we are still far from establishing the whole truth -- that authorities in several European countries actively participated with the CIA in these unlawful activities. Other countries ignored them knowingly, or did not want to know," the report said.

It listed Sweden, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Britain, Italy, Macedonia, Germany and Turkey as countries "responsible, at varying degrees ... for violations of the rights of specific persons."

Seven other countries "could be held responsible for...