Report: CIA Detainees Hastily Relocated to Morocco

Back in November, when the Washington Post reported on secret CIA prisons for "terrorists" in Eastern Europe, the Company knew it had to act quickly to move these unofficial detainees to new locations.

A report in a Moroccan newsweekly says that the CIA moved at least some of these prisoners to that country, which has had long ties to U.S. intelligence dating from World War II.

A Moroccan weekly, Le Journal Hebdomadaire, reported Saturday that two private planes had landed at the Sale military base near the capital, Rabat, in late December and early January, carrying suspected al-Qaida members sent by the U.S. intelligence agency.

"We categorically deny this information," Interior Minister Mustapha Sahel said, according to the official MAP news agency. He said he was "indignant about this type of irresponsible information aimed at sowing trouble."

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The report in Le Journal Hebdomadaire said the planes' "deliveries" to Morocco were then transferred to a detention center run by the Moroccan security agency, known by its French acronym DST, in Temara, just outside the capital.

An Amnesty International report in 2004 accused Moroccan investigators of "systematic" torture and mistreatment of inmates at the Temara detention center.