Many of the prisoners are being held at remote prisons established by former King Hassan II to torture political prisoners. Many of these prisons are in located high in the Atlas Mountains and are so remote, they can only be easily reached by helicopter.
The deal with Morocco was reached as a result of the close relations between Morocco's King Mohammed VI and former Secretary of State and UN Special Envoy for Western Sahara James Baker, Baker's Special Envoy assistant John Bolton, and former US ambassador to Morocco Margaret Tutwiler. Western Sahara is illegally occupied by Morocco but the Bush administration supports the continued Moroccan occupation of the oil and mineral rich territory. In return, Morocco has supported the holding of "Al Qaeda" suspects, interrogations by its security services, and close liaison with Israeli intelligence and military personnel.
"Al Qaeda" suspect prisoners now housed in Moroccan secret prisons
December 8, 2005 -- National Security Agency (NSA) base in Morocco. Moroccan sources report that one of NSA's most secretive bases is maintained by local Moroccan intercept technicians at Tangier, on the strategic Straits of Gibraltar. Arabic-speaking Moroccan technicians listen in on local land and sea communications. While managed by Moroccan intelligence, the station's "take" is transmitted to NSA, according to Moroccan sources. NSA technicians provide logistics and maintenance services on the equipment.
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December 8, 2005 -- There is evidence that CIA air contractors ferrying prisoners and Arabic-speaking interrogators are taping over the tail numbers (N-XXXX) of their planes and painting false tail numbers over the painted tape. This reportedly is being done to confuse those who are trying to track CIA aircraft movements. However, this practice is also confusing Homeland Security Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who track the movements of suspected drug planes in and out of the United States.
Intelligence sources also report that some of the CIA proprietary aircraft have transported Arabic-speaking interrogators who work for their respective national security services to Guantanamo Bay. The interrogators are seconded from the security services of Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.
THE WAYNE MADSEN REPORT
