TWO members of the European Parliament are warning of legal action over accusations they cooperated with the CIA over secret prisons.

European governments have built “a wall of silence” around accusations that they let the CIA abduct their residents and run clandestine prisons on their territory, a European investigator said today.

Poland and Romania have denied allegations that the CIA ran secret jails in the two countries to interrogate key terror suspects.

SECRET jails where terror suspects were held naked and in solitary confinement for months were operated by the CIA in Romania and Poland, with the complete agreement of both countries presidents.

The first trial involving the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme opened in Italy today, without the presence of any of the 26 American defendants accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terror suspect.

The CIA ran secret prisons in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005 to interrogate high-level detainees in its war on terror, a Council of Europe report said today.

European politicians today demanded to know the exact locations of the secret prisons that the US president has revealed the CIA operated overseas to interrogate terror suspects.

ON the day that terrorists struck the Twin Towers in September 2001, a British Labour Party press handler named Jo Moore emailed colleagues to share her bright idea that it would be a good day to issue press releases about bad news or unpopular policies.

DICK Marty did everyone a grave injustice in underplaying his Council of Europe report into CIA renditions.

Amnesty International today urged European Union governments to prevent their airports from being used for secret transfers of terror suspects to countries where they might be tortured, and called for compensation for victims of such alleged US operations.

Politicians will debate the lack of inspections of CIA flights landing at Shannon Airport when the Dáil meets today.

IRELAND is complicit in CIA torture operations, Labour MEP Proinsias De Rossa warned last night.

DESPITE Government attempts to play down this country’s involvement in so-called ‘extraordinary rendition’ flights, involving CIA transport of terrorism suspects for torture, Ireland is among 14 European states named as colluding with the United States.

The United States today dismissed a European Union report on alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe as “a rehash".

The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons today said planes carrying terror suspects stopped in Romania and Poland and likely dropped off detainees there.

The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons and flights in Europe will present his findings tomorrow after studying satellite images of suspect locations and log books archived by the European Union’s air safety organisation.

The head of Europe’s human rights watchdog said “appropriate action” would be taken against countries who did not take legal steps to prevent their airports being used for CIA flights of terror suspects or their territory for secret detention centres.

EUROPEAN governments are not willing to reveal what they know about US intelligence service activities on their territory, effectively obstructing an investigation into allegations of CIA secret prisons and flights in Europe, Human Rights Watch said it planned to tell the European Parliament today.

European governments are not willing to reveal what they know about US intelligence service activities on their territory, effectively obstructing an investigation into allegations of CIA secret prisons and flights in Europe, Human Rights Watch said it planned to tell the European Parliament tomorrow.

THE gardaí investigated three allegations relating to CIA flights transporting kidnapped terror suspects through Shannon Airport, the Government confirmed yesterday.

US VICE-PRESIDENT Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld may be asked to appear before a European Parliament inquiry into alleged CIA rendition flights and secret prisons.

“THE entire continent is involved,” the man investigating whether Europe’s governments are facilitating the CIA in the kidnap and torture of terror suspects claimed in his first report yesterday.

GOVERNMENT assurances that at least 40 CIA flights through Shannon Airport had nothing to do with the rendition and possible torture of prisoners were rubbished in a high-level report yesterday.

The Government is under growing pressure today to say exactly what it knows about alleged CIA 'torture flights' passing through Shannon Airport.

European investigators looking into claims of secret CIA prisons will release an interim report today saying US agents illegally transported and held terrorist suspects on the continent, the leader of the inquiry says.

THE image of our Defence Minister Willie O’Dea levelling his big guns against the CIA defies credulity.

CIA AIRCRAFT using Irish landing facilities may be subjected to search inspections to make sure they are not involved in torture operations, Defence Minister Willie O’Dea revealed last night.

US policies in the war on terror are contravening international laws on human rights, a top European investigator says.

US policies in the war on terror are contravening international law on human rights, a top European investigator said today.

European investigators looking into allegations of secret CIA-run prisons in Europe said today that a purported Egyptian government message naming countries where such prisons existed could amount to indirect proof of the claims.

A EUROPEAN investigator said yesterday he has mounting indications that the US illegally held detainees in Europe - then hurriedly shipped out the last ones to North Africa when word leaked out.

A European investigator said today he has mounting indications that the US illegally held detainees in Europe – then hurriedly shipped out the last ones to north Africa when word leaked out.

The Swiss investigator probing claims that the CIA operated secret prisons in Europe today said people were apparently abducted and transferred illegally between countries.

An investigator looking into claims that the CIA operated secret prisons in Europe said today that people were apparently abducted and transferred between countries illegally.

An investigator looking into claims of secret CIA prisons in Europe today said that people were apparently abducted and transferred between countries.

POLAND served as the CIA’s main centre to detain terrorist suspects in Europe at clandestine prisons, according to remarks by a Human Rights Watch investigator made public Friday.

A Human Rights Watch investigator said Poland was the CIA’s main centre to detain terrorist suspects in Europe at clandestine prisons, a Polish newspaper reported today.

Europe’s leading human rights watchdog said today it soon hopes to be able to monitor satellite footage of suspect sites in Romania and Poland as part of its investigation into alleged secret CIA prisons and flights in Europe.

The head of Europe’s top human rights watchdog today joined an investigation into alleged secret CIA detention centres and flights in Europe, urging the governments of the Council of Europe member states to provide full information on the issue.

The head of a European investigation into alleged secret CIA prisons in eastern Europe today said he had asked for flight details about 31 aircraft allegedly used for the transfer of terror suspects.