The War Criminal, Is Not Welcome in Europe!!

George W. Bush, War Criminal, Is Not Welcome in Europe

February 16, 2011 - Last week I returned from Poland, where I had been touring the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash), and discussing the importance of an ongoing investigation into the complicity of the Polish government in the establishment of a secret CIA torture prison in Poland in the early years of the “War on Terror.”

The investigation is of enormous significance, as the Polish Prosecutor has granted “victim” status to two men held at the prison — the “high-value detainees” Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (in October) and Abu Zubaydah (just three weeks ago) — meaning that the Polish government possesses information identifying both men and their presence at the prison, almost certainly between December 2002, when they were flown to the prison from Thailand, and September 2003, when they were moved elsewhere — possibly to Guantánamo, where a secret prison-within-a-prison existed until March 2004, when the “high-value detainees” were moved again.

Despite this, progress in Poland, since the investigation opened in 2008, has been painfully slow, as those affected by it have refused to acknowledge the prison’s existence, and have ridiculed anyone who has attempted to expose its existence, or to suggest that senior officials had knowledge of it. {continued}